Cultivating Competence
The Ministry of Leadership Development
- Church Leadership & Ministry
- Publisher: Fortress Press (Augsburg Fortress)
- Published: 2025
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Publisher's Description
Institutions demand that leaders attend to a vast array of concerns on a daily basis. In an increasingly diverse, wired, and fast-paced leadership landscape, where problems are deep-seated and complicated, no one can manage leadership alone. Leaders must attend to their own leadership development just to keep their heads above water. They must also delegate their authority and entrust it to those around them. That said, handing over authority to those who lack adequate preparation can cause harm to the community. It can also burn out a person who could have contributed meaningfully to the community over years or decades. Delegation without preparation represents a failure of a leader to protect a community's assets. The institutional leader must model that leadership can and must be learned, over time, through various disciplines that all start with taking leadership seriously. Then, they must provide opportunities, with however light a touch leads to positive results, for those in their care to grow in leadership. They must assume that even those who walk in the door with knowledge and experience are not "ready" for leadership today, for it is changing fast for everyone.
Endorsements (3)
“Praise for Cultivating Competence What does it mean to lead right now? To what extent are we paying attention to the learning and formation needed for leadership? Whether you are a leader yourself, or someone who is responsible for forming ministerial leaders, Drummond offers her readers helpful ways to think about how thoughtful and impactful leadership must be cultivated in the twenty-first century. Now more than ever, we need to be intentional about how we form ourselves and the next generation of ministerial leaders.”
“development as we lean into the idea that there is a consistent need for preparedness in a world where change is constant. She encourages leaders to live within the awe and wonder of a Risen Savior and the illumination of the Holy Spirit. She highlights the necessity of being humble, open to learning, knowing it is impossible to know everything but when intentional, it is possible to discover more ways to lead, to inspire, to support, to be curious, and to have a healthy and catalytic awareness that nourishes ministry, staff, and mission.”
“Provocative and perspicuous, one of the leading authorities on leadership in ministry has written an excellent introduction to the trefoil model of leadership. Drawing on a wide range of literature and her own experiences, Drummond invites those in all phases of ministerial formation—including those in ministry—as well as those who train them, to consider how leadership can be cultivated. The book deserves wide readership.”
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