Coaching Your Volunteers
By Len on Feb 8, 2010 in NNYM, Youth Ministry
One of the best scenes from Jerry Maguire is when Jerry pleads ?Help me, help you? to Ron.
Youth workers should have this approach when carrying out the biblical mandate of equipping the believers for ministry.
I believe in large group training sessions because there are general truths, knowledge and skills every youth worker needs. I’m even starting to think about creating a very affordable and customizable training event that will be offered in towns where no youth ministry training event is ever held. However, that sort of training is informational but not very relational.
One of the joys of being in a local church is youth workers get to invest in other believers and equip them for ministry. This context allows for a more relational coaching model, which is better.
What if you met with each of your volunteers (or other volunteers if you are the point person but also a volunteer) and asked them this question:
What would help you the most to improve your service to students?
Each answer is as unique as each individual and we should do our best to meet those needs in order to have a stronger and better youth worker on our team. One of the core values for me in my role with the National Network of Youth Ministries is “A stronger youth worker results in a stronger youth ministry.”
So if that is one of your core values or you would like that be be one of your core values, ask that question to your volunteers.
Once again, I’m a volunteer youth worker in a local church. My role is to coach some of the small group leaders. I sent them that question this morning and I concluded with “So give it some thought, reply with your answer and you will help me, help you.”
I will talk with them this week and I’ll meet in person, at some point this month, with each of them and finding the solution to their biggest need will be part of our agenda. I hope you take the time and do the same thing with your volunteers.
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