DISCIPLESHIP

PERSONAL AND SPIRITUAL FORMATION

Click on each header to find out more about what kind of leader you are, and what you need to do to achieve the next steps.

God honouring priorities

Living a life of worship and prayer. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Ensuring appropriate care of family and healthy relationships

Emerging:

I’m learning to balance my life, prioritising personal prayer, worship, and well-being. I have a mutually beneficial network of friends and family.

Competent:

I balance my life, including family, health, and work. Regular rest and prayer, including with family, are key. I invest in friendships with neighbours, people in the community, and colleagues.

Releasing:

I model balance rather than project overwork. I support and mentor, signposting resources that offer good teaching/guidance.

Transforming:

I create a supportive and thriving culture that recognises the challenges of life and ministry.

Spiritual formation and receiving grace

Taking responsibility for a deepening love relationship with Jesus, through commitment to spiritual disciplines, and receiving ministry from others

Emerging:

I am starting to explore spiritual disciplines. I contribute to and receive ministry within my faith community.

Competent:

I actively pursue spiritual growth, embracing individual and communal practices.

Releasing:

I foster trust and explore faith deeply with others, creating safe spaces for my vulnerability and honesty.

Transforming:

I champion engagement in the transformation process, humbly receiving grace, living reflectively, inspiring others.

Personal impact and self-awareness

Understanding the impact on others of our use of power and influence

Emerging:

I act to live out Salvation Army values and behaviours. I recognise how power and influence can be misused.

Competent:

I apply emotional intelligence in my influencing, demonstrating confidence and humility. I am aware of the risk of manipulating others and imposing myself or my personal views because of my position.

Releasing:

I address where power is misused by others. I share power with people rather than over people.

Transforming:

I lead by taking responsibility for decisions and actions in my context to ensure they are ethical and can be explained. I use power in a mutually transforming way.

Lifelong learning  

Through welcoming developmental feedback and using reflective practice, contributing to personal growth

Emerging:

I engage in personal development, enhanced through discussion, using feedback to learn and adapt my behaviour.

Competent:

I reflect on and apply feedback to my performance. I identify my learning needs and commit to continuous development.

Releasing:

I model lifelong learning and inspire this in others. I learn from feedback, adapting my practice to support my maturing in leadership.

Transforming:

I drive a learning culture within my context ensuring development opportunities are accessible, also using qualitative and quantitative data and insights.

Managing self

Developing personal wellbeing and resilience, adapting within existing and evolving situations

Emerging:

I am learning to manage my workload along with life’s pressures, starting to apply boundaries.

Competent:

I manage evolving workloads and resolve associated pressure. I create appropriate boundaries, knowing when to say no and when to choose sacrificial service. I create space for those things which feed, fill, and energise me.

Releasing:

I engender resilience through reflecting on and evaluating experiences, enhancing wellbeing, supporting others to manage effectively, avoiding damaging drivenness.

Transforming:

I establish a culture of self-awareness, adaptability, and healthy expectations, mitigating impacts of adversity, building capacity for resilience.