Currently, John holds several leadership position as he is a pastor of a church, a director of church planting initiatives, and a research catalyst for an up and coming graphene company. I spoke to John to discuss his goals and professional development.<\/p>\n
When are you at your best? Describe a time when you performed really well?<\/p>\n
John believes that he performs his best when he has the ability to exercise his creativity when bringing together solutions from multiple disciplines. While he was the director of church planting, he helped train people for a competency-based program called the \u201cImmerse Program.\u201d John\u2019s seminary is featured as one of the best seminaries in Canada as a result of that program. This was accomplished by bringing together behavioural training and correct goal-setting, combined with evaluating the purpose of the seminary training and developing a system where people are being trained for the exact results that are being evaluated (as opposed to educating that are based on preconceived notions).<\/p>\n
What were the circumstances during that time?<\/p>\n
Through Immerse, they were given a mandate to plant a certain amount of churches. However, they did not have the resources to recruit people and pay them sufficiently. For example, there was another organization that was able to offer church planter apprentices a salary of $60,000. It was necessary to think differently and creatively as to how to develop their own pool of potential church planters. There strategy was to find people early on with a heart for the ministry and help them discern if becoming a church planter was to be their pathway. The Immerse program was a much earlier buy-in in which training and recruiting was performed all the way through the process. Previously, church-planting systems would wait until people thought that they were qualified and would walk them through that process until they were qualified.<\/p>\n
Where do you want to be in five years from now? Describe your idealized future as if it were already happening?<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the corporate world, I would like to have the firm in a position where it is globally influencing, whereby the company is providing great products and resources for the under privileged. Whether that means providing safe drinking water or having an environmental or economical impact, the freedom to use some of that influence to direct resources to help hose that are less privileged. An integration of a business and global opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
How can you get there? What are your ideas for realizing this preferred future?<\/p>\n
John takes a 2-prong approach with regards to his idealized future. He believes that he is growing a business that requires \u201cpriority, energy, clear decision-making, and ensuring we are assessing potential markets that have quicker pay-off, as well as longer term projection that have a greater future. It is all about finding the balance.\u201d Second, John wants to work towards starting a non-profit organization to raise money for Christian schools in Pakistan.<\/p>\n
What skills\/behaviours are essential for success in your role as a manager (Rockwell, 2017)?<\/p>\n
With regards to John\u2019s role as a research catalyst with the graphene company, John spends a significant amount of time assessing partners and coordinating research, which entails finding the right researchers. Since the researchers are partners as opposed to employees, the company does not have as much access to them. This means the company cannot direct them as easily so there is a significant loss of control. Therefore, John must find people that are highly motivated, achievement-oriented, and capture the vision of the company. The researchers also need to be generous and willing to take on a collaborative approach. John describes it as a \u201ctogether future.\u201d<\/p>\n
What\u2019s important about communication in your role as manager (Rockwell, 2017)?<\/p>\n
John believes that timeliness is the most important aspect with regards communication in his role at the company. He states, \u201cThere are thousands of people that have entrusted and invested in the company with the hopes that the management will bring it to fruition. Therefore, I need to ensure that the research team understands the goals that the company has, and bring together industrial partners to help make those goals a reality. The research team needs to have continual communication with management so that the key decision-makers are aware of both progress that has been made and hurdles as they come that may threaten the company.\u201d<\/p>\n
How do you want people to feel about themselves when you\u2019re communicating with them (Rockwell, 2017)?<\/p>\n
John wants people in his organization to feel empowered so that they can achieve more and ultimately he states that he wants people to \u201cembrace the truth of who they are.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Reference<\/p>\n
Rockwell, D. (2017, March 5). The Anatomy of Performance Enhancing Coaching Conversations. Retrieved on November 4, 2018, from https:\/\/leadershipfreak.blog\/2017\/03\/05\/the-anatomy-of-performance-enhancing-coaching-conversations\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Currently, John holds several leadership position as he is a pastor of a church, a director of church planting initiatives, and a research catalyst for an up and coming graphene company. I spoke to John to discuss his goals and professional development. When are you at your best? Describe a time when you performed really … <\/p>\n