Description & Rationale

Leaders invest a lot of time developing the obvious leadership skills of vision, strategy, executing a plan and motivating people. While these skills, among others, are important the skill that influences all the others is the ability to establish healthy personal relationships. After all, what is a leader if they have no one to work with? This section will examine interpersonal health by focusing on the importance of healthy personal boundaries in the life of a leader.

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Syllabus: 2.50 Interpersonal Health

2.51 Syllabus

Description and Rationale

Leaders invest a lot of time developing the obvious leadership skills of vision, strategy, executing a plan and motivating people. While these skills, among others, are important the skill that influences all the others is the ability to establish healthy personal relationships. After all, what is a leader if they have no one to work with? This section will examine interpersonal health by focusing on the importance of healthy personal boundaries in the life of a leader.

Objectives

Upon completion of this Competency the candidate should:

• Have a clearer understanding of the importance of healthy relationships in leadership practice.
• Have a greater awareness of healthy personal boundaries and how to develop and practice them lead to healthy personal relationships.
• Have started to take the necessary steps to grow in their areas of healthy personal relationships.
• Have had opportunity to articulate with an accountability partner or mentor their understanding of the importance of personal boundaries leading to effective leadership.

Core Requirements

• The candidate will complete the following readings:

The Ten Laws of Boundaries, by Henry Cloud and John Townsend. This can be accessed as a free PDF at www.boundariesbooks.com. (It is also chapter 5 of Boundaries by Cloud and Townsend.) OR your mentor or Regional Network Coach can provide a substitute in your language.

• The candidate will complete the Interpersonal Health Self-Assessment.
• The candidate will also complete a 3-5 page discussing what they learned from the assessment questionnaire and the importance of healthy personal boundaries for leaders.

Mentoring Goals

• To help the candidate become more self aware as to the nature of their personal relationships and how having healthy personal boundaries can help.
• From their own experience, the mentor will guide the candidate to identify any potential weaknesses and how to serve from a place of health and not personal need.
• Using the Candidate Evaluation and other resources provided, the mentor will design a development plan for the candidate in order to achieve competency in this foundational area of interpersonal relationships.

Candidate Evaluation

• The candidate will be evaluated as to their level of development in this competency (Undeveloped, Developed, or Proficient). Using the chart provided, the mentor will facilitate a discussion regarding interpersonal relationships personal calling and how the candidate can become a more effective servant leader.

Development Plan

• Based upon the Candidate Evaluation, an appropriate development plan will be designed to help the candidate grow in their particular sphere of influence.
• This will include further work from the core readings, additional comprehensive learning, supplemental assignments, and various practicums.