McDonalds and leadership

Dave Ferguson over at his blog posted this last week about the leadership lesson he learned at McDonalds.

He noted a poster describing the seven-step career path that McDonalds offers.

This is a great lesson for all companies and churches!  You need a career path or a leadership pipeline and leaders need to know about it! One of the most exciting things about successful reproducing churches is that they have put a high priority and intentionality on leadership development.  In fact, research tells us that those churches that have a Campus Pastor track or pipeline experience an average annual growth of 25%.  I’m lovin’ it!  And that same study tells us that the biggest mistake that multi-site churches make was “failure of attention to leadership development”.

I have spent the last week thinking about this… if Macca’s can make it this simple, then our children’s allegra 180 mg ministry can as well. So I am putting together the leadership pipeline for our leaders.

Simple.

Effective.

And Challenging.

What would your ministry pathway look like?