SG² Steve Gladen on Small Groups

Steve Gladen, Global Small Groups Pastor at Saddleback Church, pulls from his 20+ years of small group ministry experience to encourage and equip listeners to lead healthier, growing and more effective small group ministries. In this episode, Steve is joined by three special guests - Carolyn Taketa, Bill Donahue and Philip Byers to talk about three key ways that leadership coaching can help small group ministry leaders.

Shownotes:

smallgroupnetwork.com/coaching
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Carolyn Taketa
Corolyn Taketa Coaching and Consulting
carolyntaketa.com

Bill Donahue
The LeaderSync Group
drbilldonahue.com

Philip Byers
North Coast Churches

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1. How do you handle unclear or wrong communication?
2. How do you handle worry?
3. How do you figure out who's after you?
4. How do you handle failure?

7 Lessons Learned from Face Plants
1. Think through your response and LISTEN
2. The response is always done with humility
3. Everything we do is being watched by the world
4. We must make sure our impact matches our intent
5. We can be creative without being offensive
6. When dealing with upset people, pray with them and have them pray too
7. TEACH -  True, Encouraging, Age Appropriate, Culturally Honoring, How would Jesus respond?

SGN Care Team

Description:
Steve Gladen, Global Small Groups Pastor at Saddleback Church, pulls from his 20+ years of small group ministry experience to encourage and equip listeners to lead healthier, growing and more effective small group ministries. In this episode, Steve talks about how to have a successful retreat for your small group ministry. Steve shares about the successful Saddleback church retreat that he and his team just concluded for their "Community Leaders" who serve to provide care for small group hosts. Steve will break down the following & more in this can't miss episode:

• How to have a successful rally 
• The ingredients of time 
• The  right time & place 
• The Ingredients needed for the program
• Recruitment 

Shownotes:

• Steve's talk from the Saddleback CL retreat
• CL Retreat Photos and Notes

Connections Team –
 
A week from today we begin our annual CL Retreat. It’s a great opportunity to build your team and inspire them for 2023. Here is some important information so that you will help you get the most out of the event.
 
Friday Evening
This will be time for you to gather your team together for dinner, fellowship, sharing your vision for 2023, and prepping them for Saturday.
The campus support team will cover the cost of the evening ($25 per person). Charge to Campus 20, Ministry Code 200010.
Get together in a place where you can enjoy the evening and have good conversation.
Use the evening any way you want, but be sure to include these elements:
Meaningful fellowship and getting to know each other at a heart level
Share your vision for your ministry for 2023. An overall Connections team goal this year is to increase small group members’ engagement with the Spiritual Health Assessment to 80% so that our groups are focused more on spiritual growth and health. You might take time to talk about how you can accomplish this as a group.
Take the Spiritual Health Assessment together
Talk about the upcoming One Life Campaign and your hopes for it. Remember the goals: 1,000 new groups, 10,000 people committed to changing one life, 1,000 baptisms at Easter
Tell them what you’d like for them to get out of the Saturday portion of the retreat.
We are hoping to have the new small group app available in the Google Play Store and the App Store (Apple) this week. I’ll let you know when it’s available. Assuming it is, we’d like you to take some time Friday evening to have your team download the app and play with it a bit. It’s going to be a great tool that’s will up our game when it comes to group care.
 
Saturday
This will be a time to bring all of our CLs together.
The theme will be “Healthier and Deeper”
The agenda for the day is attached. Breakfast will begin at 8 and we will plan to conclude about 2. During one of the sessions, we’d like you and one of your most seasoned CLs to host a table with CLs from other campuses (#3 on the agenda). During that session, help everyone at the table get to know each other (tell their stories). Then, there are questions for your CL to answer. Use them to facilitate a conversation around the table. Each table will have a combination of existing and potential CLs. This was one of our most popular sessions last year because it allowed CLs from different campuses to connect. It also proved to be a great recruitment tool for the potential CLs. Please let me know by Wednesday who your seasoned CL will be.
 
This event is to help build your team. If you have any questions or suggestions please let me know. We’re looking forward to a great time together.

Listen is as we go back to February 2021 and the 3 Areas for Your Groups to Shine in Today’s Culture. We still find that this will be relevant in your group's setting today!

7 Civilities 

1. Listen with your eyes (don’t roll your eyes) acknowledge their view
2. Sleep and hungry—know the right time
3. Social media news vs. Good news
4. Neither side may trivialize or dismiss the concerns of the other.
5. Neither side should define the “other” according to one single characteristic or identity marker.
6. Both sides should aim to help each other understand their own experience and perspective using a type of speech (words and tone) that can be heard by the other.
7. Both sides should accept the fundamental ground rule of life in a free society: the essence of liberty is the right to be different and to act wrongly in the eyes of others—you will need to agree to disagree.

In this episode, Steve Gladen breaks down 5 areas where ministry leaders can re-imagine how they do coaching for their groups ministry. The following is what will specifically be covered in this show:

History of Coaching

• Staff or volunteers
• Serve in one Help in another
• Saddleback’s history—building upon, keeping best of…
  • 1.0 version (1998)
    • 1:5—I could recruit faster than our growth
  • 2.0 version (2005)—why it changed, it was broken
    • 1:25 paid
    • Introduced not equal care, but strategic care
    • 4 Buckets and Reactive/pro active
    • Name changed from Coaches to CL’s because of paradigm shift
    • Care 70% Administration, training, connecting 30%,
    • Get in for right reason, but get out for right reason
    • CL Retreats
  • 3.0 Version (2009)—why it changed, it couldn’t scale financially
    • 1:25 volunteered, above same
    • Introduced any span of care a CL could do
  • 4.0 Version (2014) why it changed, they weren’t sure what to do
    • Introduced the “Starbuck’s” green apron more developmental
    • FRIEND
    • LEADER
    • COACH
    • Hard and Soft data collection
    • Skip Level, Trust but Verify
  • 5.0 Version (2017) why it changed, we discovered other factors not giving maximum alignment
    • Introduced the Village concept
    • Alignment
  • 6.0 Version (2021) why it changed, discovered different types of CL’s
    • HOST to Leader to CL to Minister
    • CL Course
    • Training Modules
    • Track training (next gen beyond Starbuck’s green apron)

 5 Areas to Reimagine Coaching

•  The Ethos (the environment the CL lives in)
  • the family system (w/o parents it is risky)
  • How’s the family (you, coaches and Group leaders)
  • Do you know what you are producing—the end in mind
• The Reason (for the CL)
  • Directive Disciple MAKING—management and guidance, Space flight PSGWP page 201
  • Tom Landry quote
  • Baseline, Know the health metrics HA & GHA
  • How will you give course corrections (ideas, curriculum, encouragement, etc.)
• The Process (finding CL’s)
  • The Group Leader pathway HOST to Leader to CL (P3) to Minister
  • Competency and Capacity
  • Retreats
  • Introductory Course
• The Pathway (growing the CL)
  • The Coach engagement pathway to the HOST; FRIEND—LEADER—COACH
  • The Coach’s pathway of growth for them
    • SGP guidance
    • Modules Training
    • Course(s)
    • Retreats
• The Influences (that help the CL)…what I call the Village
  • Share the Village, who’s in helping? Who surrounds the Small Group speaking health?
  • People (primary)
    • Small Group Point Person
    • CL or Coach
    • Senior Pastor
• Processes (secondary)
  • Training Pathway for the leader
  • Tools (HA and GHA)
  • Training Pathway for the CL
  • Newsletter
  • Small Group Weekend Table connection
  • Small Group Website home page
  • Weekend services
  • Leader Retreats and SGH
  • Streaming content (curriculum and training)
  • Social Media
  • Testimonies
  • FAQ’s

Shownotes:

smallgroupnetwork.com/smallgroup

https://sb-web.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/saddleback.com/connect/smallgroups/9958-SmallGroupsCL-Booklet_Interior_Interactive_092101.pdf

From the Lobby Gathering in 2019, Pastor Rick Warren shares his heart on Small Groups and what is to come.

Description:
Steve Gladen, Global Small Groups Pastor at Saddleback Church, pulls from his 20+ years of small group ministry experience to encourage and equip listeners to lead healthier, growing and more effective small group ministries. In this episode, Steve & co-host Deek talk about 5 Ways to Start the Year Right in regards to your small group ministry and will discuss the following five points:

1 What am I trying to produce?2 Do I have a team around me?

3 How to identify the holes in your small group ministry
4 How not to eat the whole elephant at once
5 How and why to set goals

This is one show that you will not want to miss!

Shownotes:

smallgroupnetwork.com/coaching
smallgroupnetwork.com/courses

Steve's Shower Photo
Guardrails

Steve Gladen, Global Small Groups Pastor at Saddleback Church, pulls from his 20+ years of small group ministry experience to encourage and equip listeners to lead healthier, growing and more effective small group ministries. In this episode, Steve & co-host Derek talk about Evangelism Made Easy for Small Groups.

The 6 Fs