Developing Female Leaders: Navigate the Minefields and Release the Potential of Women in Your Church

by Kadi Cole

Overview

What would your church look like if it maximized the dormant gifts of the women God has brought there? Discover how to develop and leverage the leadership abilities of women within your congregation.

Leadership and people development veteran Kadi Cole offers a practical strategy to help church and organizational leaders craft cultures that facilitate the development of women as volunteer and staff leaders.

In Developing Female Leaders, Cole shares eight easy-to-implement “best practices” that help accelerate a woman’s organizational contribution, such as:

• Seek to understand
• Clearly define what you believe
• Mine the marketplace
• Integrate spiritual formation and leadership development
• Be an “other”
• Create an environment of safety
• Upgrade your people practices
• Take on your culture

Combined with current research, thorough appendices and references add even more guidance for setting vision, milestones, and goals. Using interviews and surveys of more than one thousand women in key church and organizational roles, Developing Female Leaders is a one-of-a-kind resource for identifying what is missing today in your church to help it flourish in the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781400210923
Publisher:	Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date:	03/05/2019
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Kadi Cole, one of the first female leaders to serve in an executive role at a large, multisite church, is an international consultant for organizations, leadership trainer, and LifePlan facilitator. Kadi is a founding member of the Women’s Executive Pastor Network and the founder of MinistryChick.com. She lives with her husband and son in Royal Palm Beach, Florida.

Connect with Kadi at www.kadicole.com or on social media @kadicole.

Table of Contents

Welcome xvii

Best Practice #1 Seekto Understand 1

Best Practice #2 Clearly Define What You Believe 17

Best Practice #3 Mine the Marketplace 35

Best Practice #4 Integrate Spiritual Formation and Leadership Development 55

Best Practice #5 Be an "Other" 75

Best Practice #6 Create an Environment of Safety 91

Best Practice #7 Upgrade your People Practices 115

Best Practice #8 Take on Your Culture 145

Next Steps and Final Thoughts for Churches 165

Team Discussion Questions 183

Bonus Chapter: Best Practices for Female Leaders 189

Acknowledgments 221

Notes 225

Bibliography 239

About the Author 247