Healthy Leadership Coaching

Coaching is a supportive relationship aimed at helping individuals set and achieve personal or professional goals. Coaches provide guidance, feedback, and accountability to empower their clients in reaching their full potential.

I am a PCC Certified Coach with credentials in:

Executive Leadership Coaching
High Performance Coaching
Church Planting Coaching
Readiness 360 Assessment
Simplified Accountable Structure (Single Board Governance)
Life Coaching
Expertise in Church Revitalization

As a coach, I can help you

Reach your goals
Achieve greater results
Overcome obstacles
Keep focuses

Resources

Coaching Endorsements

“Dirk is everything you want a leadership coach to be. He’s a great listener, experienced, professional, and caring. Most importantly, he is able to get you unstuck and moving forward, accomplishing the things that are most important in your life and work.”

Chris Gambill

“Dirk Elliott gave us exactly what we needed—guidance through territory new to us, as well as wisdom from his own experience—and our congregation was able to navigate the path of change and growth with clear values and graceful strategies.”

Christopher Hintz

“Dirk provided us with thoughtful and steady guidance as we worked to bring two congregations together through a vital merger. He was a great asset to me, and I appreciate his expertise.”

Kimbely Wisecup

“Dirk kept us focused and on-track building our multi-site. He asked tough questions that helped us think creatively and push past imagined barriers. He was an essential component of our team.”

Kristi Hintz

“Dirk asks questions that help me see my recurring problems more clearly. After a coaching session with Dirk, I see new possibilities and feel an urgency to solve the problems that I have been pushing off.”

Pastor Chris Childs

Consulting

I have extensive experience in consulting with churches, helping them through revitalization, discerning a vision, or goal setting

I can help your church with:

Vision Statement and vision work
Goal Setting and Action Plans
Moving to a single board governance structure
Church Planting
Mergers – Vital Mergers, Adoptions, or Hybrid Traditional Mergers
Church Autopsies
Multiplication

Workshops, Webinars, On-Site Events

All workshops can be tailored to your needs as to content, length of time, and location (in-person or digitally.

Vision/Direction

Vision Discernment Workshop: This workshop spans one or one-and-a-half days and aids your church in discerning a precise vision and direction.

Core Values Identification Workshop: A one-day session focused on clarifying the core values of your church.

Goal Setting Retreat: An annual retreat aimed at establishing clear goals for the upcoming year.

Workshop: Guides churches in articulating their vision cohesively with the Vision Frame, a tool encompassing five components essential for vision casting.

Governance

Single-Board/Simplified Accountable Structure (SAS) Workshop:

These workshops can be scheduled as a full day, half day, or two-hour webinars.

Introduction to SAS
Discerning the implementation of SAS
Implementation training
Training for the new Governance Board
Training for the Nominations and Lay
Leadership Team Training

Multiplication

Church Adoptions Overview Workshop: Provides insight into Church Adoptions and a step-by-step process for pursuing a Church Adoption, offered as either a webinar or an in-person workshop.

Why Go Multisite? Workshop: Helps the church understand the rationale behind going multisite, guiding participants through key processes to prepare for this transition.

Vital Mergers Workshop: Outlines the process and essential steps for a Vital Merger, combining multiple churches into a new entity.

Planter Assessments: Comprehensive assessments for evaluating potential church planters or campus pastors in preparation for multisite expansion.

Vital Partnerships Workshop: Focuses on multisite and coalitional ministries, offering valuable insights for churches seeking new configurations.

Multisite Vision Casting Workshop: Vision casting and preventing vision drift pose unique challenges for multisite churches. This specialized workshop collaborates with senior leadership to ensure consistent vision alignment across all campuses and safeguard against potential drift.

Multisite Campus Constants Training: A crucial element in upholding the vitality of multisite churches is the establishment of consistent “campus constants." This training is designed to support emerging multisite churches in thoughtfully defining the essential constants that will unify all campuses effectively.

Launching

Launch Team Training: Initial training for the launch team to prepare for launching a new campus or worship service.

New Church Boot Camp: Tailored program to equip planters for their initial steps, providing processes, timelines, and benchmarks for successful launches.

Assessment

Church Life Cycle Workshop: Assesses the current position of the church in its life cycle and explores strategies to initiate a new life cycle.

Readiness 360 Assessment Workshop: Surveys key areas of the church’s spiritual intensity, relationships, alignment, and cultural openness to determine readiness for going multisite.

Local Church Assessment (Paragraph 213): Evaluates the church’s life cycle and overall health, assisting in making decisive steps for their future.

Natural Church Development: Utilizes an assessment tool to evaluate the church’s performance in eight key areas, focusing on improving the weakest area to enhance overall church health.

Ideal Workshops for Districts, Conference, or Judicatory:

Single-Board/Simplified Accountable Structure (SAS) Workshop:

Introduction to SAS
Discernment leading to the decision of implementing SAS
Implementation training
Training for the new Governance Board
Training for the Nominations and Lay Leadership Team These workshops can be scheduled as a full day, half day, or two-hour webinars.