One of the most effective things you can do to see God's empowerment in your ministry is coaching. Whether for yourself or others, coaching allows one to move others toward fulfilling the vision God has placed in his or her heart. Here is what CoachNet offers: Personal coaching for church planters, pastors, and denominational and mission executives; Specialized coaching geared toward denominational church planting efforts; Guidance for growing and leading a coaching movement; Designing and implementing coaching systems; A coach training model based on proven research; Coach training seminars and resource materials; NCD coach training; Coaching churches and denominations through NCD implementation; Responsiveness-- we listen to hear what you need.
The CoachNet website provides hundreds of vital resources for increasing church health, developing strong leaders, and multiplying churches. A subscription to CoachNet allows you to have thousands of pages of information, training material, coaching guides, online classes and other resources right at your fingertips! Additionally, the CoachNet community provides opportunity for you to network and develop relationships with other church leaders from around the world. Many of whom can relate to and support you in your particular ministry circumstance. CoachNet has developed more than a hundred coaching guides on various topics. Coaching guides will help you determine what your next steps need to be and connect you to additional information and worksheets to make them happen.
You have heard the now famous quote by Dr. Peter Wagner that "church planting is the most effective form of evangelism under the sun." That insight highlights the need for more churches to reach those without Christ. The focus of CoachNet is to start, grow and multiply healthy churches. CoachNet can design training that will be reproducible within your ministry context--both event-based training and customized training designed specifically for your ministry environment.
Over the years, CoachNet's consultants have invested innumberable hours helping leaders discern where they are, where God wants them to go, and what strategy they can use to get there. We specialize in guiding leaders toward finding creative solutions that fit their unique ministry situations. Virtually all of the services CoachNet offers can be tailored to meet the needs of individual ministries. These are just a few of the ways we contextualize: developing personalized written resource material; creating unique, need-based training programs; helping design and implement church planting movements that will fit individual cultural contexts; forming in-house coaching systems that will provide long-term solutions to filling the leadership void; and offering customized online capability.CoachNet's website is an online tool for Christian leaders. A unique web-based training and communication tool, CoachNet has a built-in reference library with hundreds of valuable resources, discussion forums on a wide variety of ministry topics, online study courses, and a powerful, interactive online coaching tool.
Our hope is that the CoachNet website will be not only a source of information, but a place where you can network with other leaders and receive the training and resourcing you need to accomplish the goals God has set before you.
- CompuCoach is our database of information drawn from over 300 books and integrated with years of experience.
- Web-based training courses on a variety of topics will walk you through information and questions to empower you to make a difference in your ministry setting.
- Downloadable Files put into your hands the presentations and handouts you need for effective ministry.
- Enhanced coaching through the online coaching tool allows you to track coaching appointments, prepare for coaching sessions, and follow-up on action items to see goals become realities.
Memberships
- coaching guides
- worksheets from more than seven ministry workbooks covering topics related to church health, church multiplication, and leadership development - all downloadable for use in your personal ministry.
- dozens of web courses on a variety of topics. Many courses are available in English, Spanish, or German.
- a powerful online coaching tool that lets you set the agenda for your coaching meetings beforehand and do the necessary followup work afterwards, while creating a permanent record ...all in one place.
- networks to connect you with other leaders in your denomination or movement. Imagine saving hours of time by getting your whole team on the same page with access to the same resources. You can even conduct real-time meetings online.
- forums on a variety of ministry topics--we offer an open discussion where you can ask for input from ministry peers, get support from colleagues who have been there, and look for ideas and directions from those who are blazing the trail with you!
- specialized downloadable files. Need a PowerPoint file that can be used to train people in basic coaching skills? We offer that and much, much more.
- How do we develop a vision statement for our ministry?
- How can I train up small group leaders?
- How can we mobilize church planters within our network of churches?
- How can we bring change to an area of our church life without destroying the good that is there?
- What does a "healthy church" look like and where are we missing the mark?
- How can we raise up a church planting team for an unreached people group?
- How can I become a better coach to leaders in my ministry?
- What is my role in training new leaders for our church?
- Personal coaching for church planters, pastors, and denominational and mission executives
- Specialized coaching geared toward denominational church multiplication efforts
- Coaching for churches and denominations through NCD implementation
- Coaching guides for church planters and pastors
- Guidance for growing and leading a coaching movement
- Tools to design and implement coaching systems
- Use of an online coaching tool to organize your coaching relationships
- A coach training model based on qualitative research
- Coach training seminars and resource materials
- NCD coach training
- Responsiveness - we listen to what you need and then help you meet your need
- Log key issues and outcomes
- Set the agenda for meetings in advance
- Record prayer needs
- Review the record to follow up on important items and celebrate progress
- Set action items with due dates for completion
- Automatically send reminder emails for your next appointment
- Purchase your Online Coach Assessment through the CoachNet Store.
- Select the Assessment Module on the top menu bar.
- Make sure to have the names and email addresses of each person you wish to assess you, as you will be asked this information before you begin.
- Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the survey.
- Check on the status of each assessor.
- View, print or email your Assessment Report.
- Cultivating Church Multiplication Movements
- 10 Steps To Church Planting
- Natural Church Development
- Cell Church Planting
- Coaching 101
- Spanish and German Language Courses
- Personal coaching for church planters, pastors, and denominational and mission executives
- Specialized coaching geared toward denominational church multiplication efforts
- Coaching for churches and denominations through NCD implementation
- Coaching guides for church planters and pastors
- Guidance for growing and leading a coaching movement
- Tools to design and implement coaching systems
- A coach training model based on qualitative research
- Coach training seminars and resource materials
- NCD coach training
- Responsiveness-- we listen to what you need and then help you meet your need
For example, a denominational group wanted to see Natural Church Development coaches raised up to facilitate the growth of healthy churches. CoachNet's team worked with leaders to identify and train coaches in a reproducible process, then walked with them through their first coaching assignments in the NCD cycle. By empowering the denomination's own coaches and giving them the necessary training material, CoachNet has facilitated the group's self-sufficiency. They are now able to train their own leaders so their churches will have skilled coaches for future NCD cycles.
- October 7-9, 2008: Los Angeles, CA area
- March 10-12, 2009: Tampa, FL area
- May 19-21, 2009: Chicago, IL area
- July 14-16, 2009: Los Angeles, CA area
- October 13-15, 2009: Los Angeles, CA area
- Preliminary coaching with a coach mentor as you do pre-seminar reading and thinking about coaching
- Seminar training focused on the coaching process, practical skills and core competencies
- Experience coaching others while you receive 9 coaching sessions from your coach mentor
- Take part in a coaching skills assessment process
- Once all requirements and evaluations have been completed, certification is earned and a CoachNet subscription is included that allows you to access the latest resources and tools.
- Experience three coaching sessions via telephone with your coach mentor, working through Coaching 101 (pre-workshop).
- Familiarize yourself with the CoachNet website and the Online Coaching tool.
- Recruit two persons you will coach during your fieldwork (post-workshop).
- Complete a DiSC profile.
- Coaching 101 Handbook serves as the curriculum for this event.
- Dig deep into the 5Rs of the coaching process -- Relate, Reflect, Refocus, Resource, Review.
- Practice discovery listening.
- Explore effective techniques for asking powerful questions.
- Learn through observation and participation.
- Identify your behavioral profile and improve interpersonal skills.
- Coach two persons for six sessions each. (One one-hour coaching appointment per month with each.)
- Work with your coach mentor for six sessions to grow in your coaching capacity (One one-hour coaching appointment per month.)
- Work with your coach mentor to create a personal development plan for continued growth.
- Feedback from field work
- Online coach assessment through www.coachnet.org
- Certification is earned when all requirements and evaluations are completed.
- Maintain CoachNet subscription to access latest resources.
- Engage in lifelong learning to improve your coaching ministry.
- Relate: establish coaching relationship and agenda
- Reflect: discover and explore key issues
- Refocus: determine priorities and next steps
- Resource: provide support and encouragement
- Review: evaluate, celebrate, and revise plans
- Abiding in Christ
- Self-assessing
- Communicating
- Establishing
- Supporting
- Concluding
- Diagnosing
- Planning
- Monitoring
- Intro to Coaching
- Missing in America
- From Followers to Leaders
- Foundational Coaching Skills
- Coaching Church Planters
- Mobilizing and Multiplying Coaches
- Coach Certification
- creating unique, need-based training programs
- helping design and implement church planting movements that will fit individual cultural contexts
- forming in-house coaching systems that will provide long-term solutions to filling the leadership void
- offering customized online capability
- CoachNet, in cooperation with a network of key denominational leaders, developed comprehensive checklists and coaching guides organized around their group's 5-point philosophy of ministry. Having a system that was specifically tailored to their denominational framework helped them preserve and promote the unique flavor of their ministry.
- The pastor of a small, non-denominational church began reading cell church literature and felt drawn to the ministry paradigm. His congregation had always valued the strong sense of community in their church. Yet the pastor was unsure how or if they could incorporate cell church principles into their own, already established church. He contacted CoachNet to find a consultant with extensive experience in the cell church movement. She helped the church leadership assess their current church structure and values, and then worked with them as they clarified what God was calling them to do. After the church voted to transition into the cell church model, the CoachNet consultant helped them strategize and plan for a successful transition.
Membership in CoachNet gives you access to thousands of pages of information, including:
Fees
Individual Membership
The cost of membership in CoachNet for one year depends on the country in which you live. For residents of the USA, membership is $75 annually. For people living in other countries, the price may be lower depending on the economic situation. You may sign up online using your credit card, and the CoachNet Store will automatically adjust the membership price to the correct price for your country.
Group Sales
You can take advantage of a special $60 per person group rate by purchasing ten or more CoachNet subscriptions at one time. The price is reduced even more to $50 per person if 50 login codes are issued at one time. If you would like to start a network on CoachNet for your group, we would be pleased to host your online community. Please contact us for more details.
CompuCoach
CompuCoach(tm) is a database consisting of thousands of pages of key insights, checklists with action items, reflection questions, and worksheets from Bob's publications -- that have been created for real ministry situations.
Much of the information is available to you for free as a registered member, however, to take advantage of Coaching Guides and Worksheet downloads, visit our store and become a member of our community. All worksheets, including published material from Bob Logan's personally authored resources, and information can be downloaded and used within your personal ministry.
Perhaps you are wrestling with practical questions like these:
CompuCoach(tm) addresses these and many other practical ministry challenges, putting into your hands the information and resources you need to succeed.
Coaching guides
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CoachNet has developed more than a hundred coaching guides on various topics. Each guide is designed to help you make practical decisions that will move your ministry forward. Perhaps you lack some important information, or you are simply missing a step in the process, or you are not asking the right questions. Coaching guides will help you determine what your next steps need to be and connect you to additional information and worksheets to make them happen.
In addition, CoachNet has developed coaching guides for each phase of the implementation process of Natural Church Development. These guides will walk you step-by-step through the process of leading your church to improve your minimum factor. From the experience of hundreds of churches, we have developed the process, the handouts, and the presentations that will allow you to create your own unique path to church health.
Both the CompuCoach coaching guides and the Natural Church Development coaching guides can be used to coach others through to effective ministry.
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Specialized File Access
The Network Files section of CoachNet provides an area where the CoachNet team and network leaders can store files that members can download. It is where you will find the best and latest information on Church Health, Leadership Development and Church Multiplication.
On a regular basis, files such as new worksheets, practical handouts for your next leadership meeting, coaching guides, and PowerPoint presentations for training others will be posted for your use. If you have your own Network on the CoachNet website, you can post your own unique files available only to your members. This system allows all your leaders to have access to the same information...at the same time!
Online coaching tool
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Whether you conduct your coaching conversations face-to-face, or over the phone, CoachNet's unique online coaching tool enables you to keep your coaching sessions well-focused and agenda-based.
Celebrate victories, identify challenges, track action items and keep a history of your relationship. The vehicle also creates an online record of past accomplishments and current goals, creating a built-in accountability system. We are sure you'll find that the CoachNet online coaching tool saves time and accelerates your ministry progress all at once!
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The benefits of the online coaching tool:
How many times have you met for a coaching session, spent the first 15 minutes trying to figure out the agenda, then spent the last 15 minutes hammering out action plans that go uncompleted? CoachNet has a solution: online coaching.
CoachNet's online coaching function can help build structure and accountability into the coaching relationship. Our coaching area gives you the ability to track your coaching appointments using online coaching sessions.
Why not just use email?
Sometimes people ask, "Why not just use email to prepare for coaching relationships?" Certainly email is a piece of the preparation. CoachNet incorporates email, but goes beyond it. Using email alone can be hard to organize, with individual pieces often getting lost. The online coaching tool is a management system that provides structure to the coaching relationship, and puts all the necessary tools at your disposal in the same place. When you've prepared a session for review, you can send an email to the session participant(s) so you're literally on the same page.
Additional accountability
"In the early stages of coaching people, I ended up becoming the record keeper and the only instrument for their accountability," says Colin Noyes. "This limited the number of people I could coach. For a while now I have been using the coaching section of CoachNet and get the person who is being coached to do most of the work. The online record then becomes the primary point of accountability. This system has been great for everyone involved." Online coaching allows the person being coached to set their own goals and then follow up on them. Having written goals and a structure in place helps people accomplish their goals more consistently.
Increased effectiveness
Use of CoachNet's online tool can easily double the effectiveness of your coaching. When people use CoachNet's online tool to prepare in advance for coaching sessions, they gain perspective and focus the agenda on the truly important. By logging the insights and outcomes that were discussed you can always go back to review and follow up on key issues. Assigning action items with a due date increases accountability for follow through - both for you and for the leader you're coaching. When it comes time to review the coaching relationship, you can go back to note progress and achievements, as well as evaluate your own coaching skills.
"Online coaching has significantly raised my level of effectiveness and productivity and is helping me keep first things first. There's a lot to be said for the continuity of record-keeping available online. When I look back over the summary, I can see the long-term process all together. It's helped me personally too, beyond the arena of ministry..." - Tom De Vries
To subscribe to CoachNet, which includes use of the online coaching tool, go to this page.
Online coach assessment
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Based on the research of Dr. Robert Logan and Dr. Gary Reinecke, our Online Coach Assessment provides you with an accurate measurement of your effectiveness as a coach, and how you compare to others.
In addition to self-assessment, you can ask up to seven people to evaluate you from their perspective. Ideally, you will want to include people you are coaching (coachees), as they have the most direct experience of your coaching. You can also include a fellow coach who knows you well or even your supervisor, giving you a full 360-degree review. After receiving feedback, you will instantly receive a 20-page report with your scores, interpretation (including how you measure up against other coaches), and improvement actions.
Please see the following topics for more information about how the quality and benefits of our assessment.
What it looks like
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What are the benefits of an Online Coach Assessment?
Feedback. When you received your training as a coach, you probably received supervised feedback to help you unlearn old habits and learn new ones. Where is your feedback coming from now?
Pinpoint areas for improvement. Identify the specific microskill(s) where you can improve, and design a personalized plan to increase your competence in this area. For example, if you are a competitive swimmer, you need to look at all aspects of your performance. You may discover that where you are losing time is in the turns...so you can work on that dimension to improve your capacity as a swimmer. Same for coaching.
The Online Coach Assessment offers valid, research-based information about your skill level. In addition to a self-assessment we highly recommend that you get the opinions of those you are coaching and of others who have observed your coaching. The Online Assessment will incorporate feedback from as many as seven additional people (coachees, peers, and/or supervisors) offering full 360-degree capabilities.
As feedback is received, results are immediately available online to view, print or email.
What research went into developing the Assessment?
Qualitative Research. Dr. Robert Logan and Dr. Gary Reinecke conducted an international qualitative research project mentored by Dr. Charles Ridley to determine the competencies of excellent Christian coaches. The nine competencies can be organized into three categories:
Foundational: Abiding in Christ, Self-assessing, Communicating
Relational: Establishing, Supporting, Concluding
Strategic: Diagnosing, Planning, Monitoring
Each competency is defined by 5-7 specific behavioral dimensions called microskills. The research results and resources for increasing your effectiveness as a coach can be found in Developing Coaching Excellence by Robert E. Logan and Gary B. Reinecke (ChurchSmart Resources, 2003).
Validity and Reliability. Building on the results of the qualitative research project, Logan and Reinecke then designed an online questionnaire to be completed by the coach and others (those being coached, peers, and/or supervisors). The questions for use in this survey were selected scientifically by conducting a reliability test (Cronbach) on the pilot data. Further tests will be conducted with new data to verify how high scores correlate with coaches' performance.
What does the report give you?
Summary. The Online Coach Assessment provides you with an accurate measurement of your overall effectiveness as a coach, pinpoints specific opportunities for improvement and gives guidance to help you design specific action plans for growth.
Qualitative Research. Dr. Robert Logan and Dr. Gary Reinecke conducted an international qualitative research project mentored by Dr. Charles Ridley to determine the competencies of excellent Christian coaches.
Each competency is defined by 5-7 specific behavioral dimensions called microskills. The research results and resources for increasing your effectiveness as a coach can be found in Developing Coaching Excellence by Robert E. Logan and Gary B. Reinecke (ChurchSmart Resources, 2003).
Validity and Reliability. Building on the results of the qualitative research project, Logan and Reinecke then designed an online questionnaire to be completed by the coach and others (those being coached, peers, and/or supervisors). The questions for use in this survey were selected scientifically by conducting a reliability test (Cronbach) on the pilot data. Further tests will be conducted with new data to verify how high scores correlate with coaches' performance.
Scoring Summary. The scoring summary provides a quick total of your scores in each of the nine competencies and accompanying microskills that make up the Online Coach Assessment.
Competency Description Pages. This report contains two pages for each of the nine competencies. The first page provides a summary definition of the competency and microskills and your specific scores displayed graphically with interpretation of low, medium and high scores. The second page gives tips and helps, including reflection questions and a sample of improvement actions. Developing Coaching Excellence expands on the Tips and Helps given in this report. It goes deeper into the step-by-step process of identifying action steps in a Personal Development Plan. You will be challenged to master the nine competencies assessed in the online profile by referring to expanded material under "Coach Development" to create your plan.
How can I get started with the Online Coach Assessment?
To complete an Online Coach Assessment, simply follow these four easy steps:
Once the survey is completed, an invitation will automatically be emailed to those you specified, asking them to complete the assessment.
Return to the Assessment Module at any time to:
Customized networks
Experience has helped us identify one major challenge experienced by most groups -- finding ways to enhance communication between leaders.
CoachNet offers a solution: Customized Networks!
Your own customized network provides a secure intranet environment where your organization can post news items and files and participate in online discussion forums with each other. Meetings can even be held online in real time! No more expensive phone bills on the heels of lengthy conference calls! You'll discover that customized network solutions end up faciliating stronger communication and saving time.
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Web courses
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The training area of the CoachNet website includes dozens of online courses, including offerings on church multiplication strategies, cell church related issues, each of the eight NCD quality characteristics, along with various coaching and leadership issues.
CoachNet's web-based training can be done via self-study or as mentor-guided learning. We do, however, recommend that you consider the mentor-guided option when it's available to you through your coach because of the value that learning can be maximized through mutual interaction with others.
Examples
Our principle-based training courses are also linked through Passion 4 Planting's Converge system. Let us know what you'd like to learn!
Call our international number 1.323.225.5515, or our U.S. Toll Free number 1.888.318.7920 for more information.
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Coaching
As our name implies, CoachNet believes that coaching is essential for effective ministry. Based on qualitative research, we have developed an easily transferrable model for coaching, along with tools that allow both new and experienced coaches to improve their coaching effectiveness.
CoachNet offers:
Become a coach
- Coaching guides | Online coaching tool | Get coaching | Explore the coaching path | Become a coach | Developing leaders for the vision | Developing coaches | Developing a coaching movement | Coach assessment
Coaching is fundamental to everything we do in ministry, from discipling new believers to developing new leaders. Dynamic churches and ministries have coaching woven into their genetic code. CoachNet's desire is to see people become intentional about coaching -- either in beginning to coach others or in improving the quality of coaching they currently deliver. Everybody talks about it... it's time to start doing it!
Receive qualified training
To coach people well and effectively, you need training. If you are to function as a guide, walking alongside someone as they venture onto new paths, you need to have a sense of the roadmap that lies ahead. That doesn't mean that you know where to go, or even that you've been there ahead of them. It just means you have the basic skills to guide them along each stage of their own unique path.
The training process is easy with CoachNet's Coach Certification program -- a specialized, comprehensive process that prepares Christian leaders to effectively coach and develop others.
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A comprehensive seminar to prepare coaches in training and develop them for excellence. For more information, please read this page, and call 1.888.318.7920 or email support@coachnet.org |
CoachNet's coach training is experiential, offering not only a seminar but a hands-on process:
Syllabus for Coach Certification Orientation
What you'll learn In you're training, you'll learn about the five R's of coaching:
Seminars
CoachNet offers varying intensities of coach training seminars. We are happy to come to you and speak directly into your ministry context, preserving your organizational flavor and ethos. Some of our standard seminars include:
Please speak to a CoachNet representative to determine which will best meet your needs, or help us design one just for you!
Consulting
Consulting helps leaders discern where they are, where God wants them to go, and what strategies they can use to get there.
We specialize in guiding leaders toward finding creative solutions that fit their unique ministry situations. Virtually all of the services CoachNet offers can be tailored to meet the needs of individual ministries. Here are just a few of the ways we contextualize:
Examples of consulting work CoachNet has done: