DMIN 762: Mentoring
This course is an in-depth study of the informal training model called mentoring. Mentoring is an important means of training leaders. It is a flexible model that can be used in organizations, faith-based institutions, and with individuals. Mentoring is a relational experience. This course will consider the life of the mentor, explore the dynamics of three basic categories of mentors and the nine mentoring relationships subsumed in them, and look at the factors one must consider when mentoring across cultures. Two frameworks for mentoring will be considered during this course: a constellation model and a situational leadership model. This course will benefit anyone who anticipates training leaders in a personal manner.
Primary faculty Rev. Dr. Alistair Bates.
Discussion Questions
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15
Reading Summaries
"Managers as Mentors" by Chip R. Bell
"Mentoring 101" by John Maxwell
"The Fine Art of Mentoring" by Ted Engstrom
"The Mentoring Church" by Phil Newton
Final Project
Describe your strategy for growth as a mentor and a plan for mentoring.
1. The first half of the paper should focus on yourself as a mentor and should include a constellation mentor plan for growth, a personally meaningful biblical model of a divine mentor, and a significant historical mentor. Describe what type of mentor approach you are using - the Situational Approach and Clinton’s mentor models. Conclude this section with ways you are caring for your personally life to ensure that you finish well.
2. The second half of the paper should be a development of a mentoring plan. Give some details regarding the person or group you are mentoring. Using the situational approach, make a plan and describe the choice of mentor type(s) you will use, when and how you will address the “why” in mentoring, and cultural map discoveries that will inform your mentoring. Incorporate some aspects of ‘finishing well’ and ‘soul care’ in your mentoring plan.
3. Conclude your paper with a summary of your expectations for the future as you mentor. The total paper will be evaluated on how well you understand the mentoring concepts and are able to apply them to your own life and the lives of the people you are mentoring.
DCL 723: Servant Leadership
This course focuses on the personal call, spiritual formation, character development and leadership growth of the leader. Starting with the paradoxical teaching of “servant leadership” found in the life and words of Jesus Christ, this course will show how these principles are demonstrated in Peter Drucker’s Self-Management principles, as well as other global models of servant leadership. This course will help students identify their own leadership calling and passion, gifts/talents, limits, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges. This course will also demonstrate the connection between the servant leader and building an organizational culture of customer service. Students will learn how to better lead themselves and others in an increasingly multi-cultural and complex world.
Primary faculty Rev. Dr. Derek Talbot.
Discussion Questions
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14
Reading Summaries
"Servant Leadership in Action" by Ken Blanchard
"The Coach Model for Christian Leaders" by Keith Webb
"The Quest for Biblical Servant Leadership" by KeumJu Hyun
"Leadership in Christian Perspective" by Justin Irving
Assessment
Final Project
"For leaders today, identify and practically apply key aspects of the apostle Paul’s leadership style in which he demonstrated elements of being a servant leader. Provide evidence from the New Testament."