Note: The following skill training areas are not ranked in order of importance.

Communication Skills

• Communicating with a purpose (gaining attention, developing interest, gaining conviction, creating desire, reassurance and action)
• Building relationships
• Story telling
• Modular speaking
• Leading a workshop

Graduates should be able to:

1. Communicate clearly and confidently their vision in such a way that will command attention.
2. Speak in a manner that keeps the interest of the audience.
3. Construct a message or prepare a paper in less time than it used to take them before the training.
4. Construct a message to effectively overcome the five in-built negative responses within an audience.
5. Think in modules and become skilled in developing presentations by utilizing the ‘power of the incident’ (story) and thus produce emotive responses to the spoken message or written communiqué.

Management Skills

Key functions of effective management; Life & Ministry Planning; Making a Mission Statement;
Goal Setting

Graduates should be able to:

1. Apply the major functions of management to whatever project or responsibility they are given, namely, planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, supervising and evaluation.
2. Better utilize the knowledge, gifts and creativity of their team, making it possible to accomplish more through their people than before. This is done by encouraging their incredible capacity to think creatively, thus producing a quantity of ideas from which to find the best solutions to a given problem.
3. Better facilitate and utilize their team members to develop and implement strategies and plans.
4. Increase clarity and reduce confusion in their team through practiced delegation methods.
5. Help their team make wise decisions by utilizing their new decision making matrix tool.
6. Hold their team members accountable through clear and agreed upon delegations.
7. Maintain their personal strategic life management plan that they have developed during the training in the context of the demands of the ministry and the family.

Relational Skills

Graduates should be able to:

1. Confidently make friends and develop genuine relationships with people who will be stakeholders in the work, i.e. in the mission, church, and government etc.
2. Build more meaningful and genuine relationships.
3. Build stronger teams by decreasing criticism.
4. Better understand and communicate with the people they lead and serve.

Motivational Skills

Graduates should be able to:

1. Help their team members and others who may be indifferent to become interested, those who are skeptical to become convinced and those who are procrastinating to take action.
2. Be effective in recruiting staff and volunteers.
3. Better encourage donors by discerning and responding to their felt needs.

Devotional Skills

Graduates should be able to:

1. Gain skills to build and maintain their Christ-centered identity.
2. Learn the unique need for leaders to maintain a personal devotional life in the context of their ministry and family.

Strategic plan for their vocation and life

Graduates should be able to:

1. Develop a plan for the immediate responsibility they have
2. Commence a long term life plan

Training skills

Graduates should be able to:

1. Understand and use a special workshop format in training their own staff and colleagues.
2. Pass on principles of training discovered during the training course.

Note:
During the course, the course leaders will be looking to identify those trainees who have the potential to benefit from further specialized trainer training in order to help staff future courses. In the advanced training they will learn more of:

1. The background philosophy, principles and standards of the training.
2. The skills necessary to become a competent trainer of the leadership material.

Public Relations

Biblical foundations of PR; building relationships with authorities, community and religious publics; maintaining relationships; developing a strategy for partnership development.

Graduates should be able to:

1. Identify their Stakeholders and key ‘customers’
2. Produce a PR strategy to benefit their stakeholders. (This will be done during the training.)

Leadership

There is one further significant component of the course and that is the Biblical teaching sessions that undergird the presentation. Inspirational leadership is building trust and respect; building people; identifying achievements; leadership attitudes and developing initiative and creativity.
There are seven underlying elements of leadership that are covered. The leader must have:

1. A vision of where he/she is going
2. The ability to communicate well to his/her followers
3. A shepherd’s heart for his/her people
4. An understanding of the role of management as it relates to leadership.
5. A deep desire to go on learning
6. A resolve to handle the pain that comes with leadership
7. The anointing of the Spirit of God on his/her life