Level 6 - Associate Pastor Coaching Workflow

• ☐ Guide the trainee in evaluating their long-term rhythm (rest, Word, retreat, soul friendships).
• ☐ Have them write or present a long-term soul care plan.
• ☐ Revisit after 4–6 weeks to review consistency and fruitfulness.
• ☐ Debrief: “What shifts have anchored your leadership spiritually?”

• ☐ Help the trainee prepare a 30–60 minute reflection session (questions, scripture, prayer).
• ☐ Coach them to adapt it to their department’s spiritual needs.
• ☐ Debrief: “What surfaced during the reflection time? What was your team’s spiritual state?”

• ☐ Have them select 1–2 APs to walk with intentionally.
• ☐ Guide them to include spiritual identity and ministry role discussions.

• ☐ Ask for mentee feedback and personal reflections.
• ☐ Debrief: “How are you forming future spiritual shepherds?”

• ☐ Invite the trainee to prayerfully walk through ministry spaces they oversee.
• ☐ Encourage them to journal insights or scriptures impressed by the Spirit.
• ☐ Discuss any new direction sensed during the prayer walk.
• ☐ Debrief: “What did God highlight for your ministry’s next season?”

• ☐ Guide the trainee to articulate system-level purpose, values, and alignment.
• ☐ Review slides, outline, and visuals.

• ☐ Observe or receive video/audio of large-group delivery.
• ☐ Offer structured feedback: clarity, relevance, impact.

• ☐ Debrief: “How did this move the system forward? What was affirmed or resisted?”

• ☐ Ask the trainee to audit current communication flows across departments they oversee.
• ☐ Help them create a new plan with shared tools, message rhythms, and clarity checkpoints.
• ☐ Debrief: “How are you helping diverse teams stay connected?”

• ☐ Teach or model the “affirm–adjust–affirm” method.
• ☐ Let them practice giving grace-filled but direct feedback to a leader or team member.
• ☐ Debrief: “What feedback was hardest to give? How did it land?”

• ☐ Help the trainee prepare a short devotional rich in theology and spiritual insight.
• ☐ Ensure it is tailored for senior-level leaders.
• ☐ Observe or collect feedback from the audience.
• ☐ Debrief: “What truth did you feel most led to emphasize?”

• ☐ Guide the trainee to evaluate their ministry system for alignment, gaps, and spiritual health.
• ☐ Use interviews, documents, or visual maps.

• ☐ Help them develop a plan for deeper alignment and support across teams.

• ☐ Present and gather feedback from peers or top leadership.
• ☐ Debrief: “What parts of your system need reformation or re-energizing?”

• ☐ Ask the trainee to outline how Lay Leaders grow to Junior Pastor 2 level within their system.
• ☐ Include mentoring flow, leadership markers, and training touchpoints.
• ☐ Debrief: “How will this pipeline ensure future growth and multiplication?”

• ☐ Have the trainee choose a recent ministry change or transition they led.
• ☐ Ask them to write or present what worked, what didn’t, and what was learned.
• ☐ Debrief: “How are you growing as a change leader with pastoral wisdom?”

• ☐ Encourage reflection on how they lead across teams (tone, tools, trust).
• ☐ Use questions: “How do you empower others? How do you realign culture?”
• ☐ Let them write or share a summary.
• ☐ Debrief: “What patterns of leadership are effective across teams?”

• ☐ Help them identify one or more potential successors for their role.
• ☐ Ask them to draft a basic succession plan: timeline, mentoring, shadowing.
• ☐ Debrief: “What excites or scares you about releasing your role to someone else?”