The Cell Group Coach's Library

How to Be a Great Cell Group Coach

Research has found that the greatest contributor to cell group success is the quality of the coaching provided for cell group leaders. If you are interested in using your coaching skills with the Cell Group leaders in your church, How to Be a Great Cell Group Coach is an excellent guide. The book walks you through the kinds of issues cell leaders face and provides many proven principles of cell life in a practical and easy-to-apply format.

The word "coach" is defined much more loosely in the Cell/Small Group coaching world than in professional coaching, so you'll see mentoring, discipling and supervision practices interspersed with coaching. We recommend that you use a book like Leadership Coaching to learn coaching skills, and use this volume as an application guide for implementing a coaching approach in your cell group system.

Leadership Coaching

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Leadership Coaching is the best how-to-coach book available for small group coaches. Written by a top Christian coach trainer, it is filled with real-life stories, practical tools and application exercises that bring coaching techniques to life. An invaluable facet of this book is that it separates out coaching, mentoring and supervision and focuses exclusively on the skill of coaching.

Part I is an in-depth look at how coaching fits with the purposes of God. Part II uses a hands-on, interactive approach to show you how to coach. Utilizing the seven key elements of effective coaching as a framework, each facet of the coaching relationship is explained in detail. Then follow-up Master Class sections help you internalize the key concepts and try them out in real life.

Coaching Small Group Leaders

Learn the coaching approach to caring for small group leaders with this great new CD from cell church consultant Les Brickman of Strategic Cell Ministries. On this CD, Les shows you three key techniques used by small group coaches: pastoral care, debriefing after small group visits, and troubleshooting small group problems. After some brief input on each area, the skill is demonstrated in extended, live coaching sessions, followed by debriefing times where we discuss the coaching techniques used. It's a great way to build your coaching skills during your "drive time" in the car.

Powerful Questions: Changing Perspective

One of the key things people want from a coach is perspective: on their challenges, dreams, rationales and decisions. This CD uses live coaching demos to help you become a master at helping others get perspective. You'll learn three powerful asking approaches that help people see things from new angles:

- The Proportion Technique helps a person see things in relation to the big picture of other values and priorities.
- The Objectivity Approach helps takes us beyond our own viewpoint to see things as they really are.
- The Viewpoint Technique lets you look at a situation from 11 different angles.