You might want to commit to coaching your leaders over the course of one or two months. This model creates weekly or bi-weekly momentum for your leaders. Here’s a recommended Coaching Roadmap for a one month experience:
1 - Divide your group of leaders into cohorts.
Cohorts of 5-8 are ideal.
At times it best to form cohorts based on common factors. For example: leaders that serve at churches in the same area (region, section, etc.). You can always choose to form cohorts based on church size or vocational status (volunteer leaders together, etc.)
2 - Choose a coach for each cohort.
This could be an experienced Youth Pastor or even a former Youth Pastor who has a desire to help develop leaders.
You could also choose a larger cohort that you personally coach, but our experience is that larger cohorts tend to naturally allow for quieter leaders to not have the space to process their questions in the most helpful way to their development.
3 - Plan to meet weekly or bi-weekly in person or utilizing a virtual platform (Zoom, Google Video, etc.) around four sessions of content from the Vitals for Youth Ministry Library.
If you and your group are new to Vitals for Youth Ministry we recommend the following videos.
Session One: What is Vitals?
Session Two: A Biblical Framework for Vitals.
Session Three: Building Your Youth Ministry by the Vitals.
Session Four: How to use Vitals as an Evaluation Tool.
4 - Each session (1 hour) could be developed to include the following elements:
Watch the video together as a group. (20 minutes)
You might also choose to ask each leader to watch the assignment video in advance so you have more time for discussion and coaching.
Spend time in cohorts using the provided discussion questions and notes. (20 minutes)
Come back together as a group for a Q&A session or panel discussion with each cohort coach sitting on the panel. (20 minutes)
If you choose to keep your entire group of leaders together and you are using Zoom you might want to start your session together as one large group, then use the Zoom breakout room option to send everyone to their respective cohorts for a discussion. At the end of cohort discussion time you can bring everyone back together for a larger panel discussion style Q&A.