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ISSACHAR: Executive Leader Impact Process

The process focuses on where our personal competence and passion intersects with the needs of our denomination and our biblical mission.
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Course Description

This Benchmarking and training process is intended to act as a “quick-start-guide”—a way to quickly get you started thinking about where you are and where you need to be on your ministerial journey in order to, survive, thrive, pass the baton, and finish well.

Each contextualized custom benchmark that we get from your States, reveal 8 competencies, 5-6 key responsibilities and performance indicators, the primary motivators or drivers for that position, along with the top behaviors that are needed for superior performance.

Each Benchmark initiative starts from a basic toolbox containing 25 of the most important leadership skills needed in today’s work or ministry environment. The approach is to start with this set of 25 skills, assess your current capability, and help you develop the competencies where there is an assessed GAP between where you are and where you need to be.

And once again, it is all personal and confidential; intended for personal growth and development—not for selection or appointment. Our desire is, as much as possible, to take away the opportunity for you to fail.

We have used this standard set of 25 competencies and employed a patented process to ascertain 8 competencies that drive superior performance within each of our 8 initially selected COG positions:

  1. Top-tier Administrative Bishop
  2. Top-tier Women’s Ministry Director
  3. Missions State Administrative Bishop
  4. Women’s Ministry Director Missions State
  5. Latino Administrative Bishops
  6. Youth Directors
  7. District Pastor
  8. Local Pastor


The 8 competencies that were continuously in the top 8, in all our positions are:

  1. Diplomacy and Emotional Intelligence
  2. Leadership
  3. Appreciating Others
  4. Personal Accountability
  5. Teamwork
  6. Conflict Management
  7. Resiliency
  8. Time and Priority Management

Course Lessons:

  • Lesson 1: Learning Agility and Introduction to the 8 + 2 Benchmark Competencies
  • Lesson 2: Competency No. 1: Diplomacy and Emotional Intelligence
  • Lesson 3: Competency No. 2: Leadership
  • Lesson 4: Competency No. 3: Appreciating Others
  • Lesson 5: Competency No. 4: Personal Accountability
  • Lesson 6: Competency No. 5: Teamwork
  • Lesson 7: Competency No. 6: Conflict Management
  • Lesson 8: Competency No. 7: Resiliency
  • Lesson 9: Competency No. 8: Time and Priority Management
  • Lesson 10: A Ministerial Foundation of "Authenticity"
  • Lesson 11: My Reason for Ministry Benchmarks—It's a Catalyst

Course Lessons

Meet the instructor

Dr. Fred Garmon

Hello. I’m Dr. Fred Garmon. I served as a Senior Pastor for 25 years and in a mission field for a decade. I’m presently the Executive Director and Founder of LeaderLabs, a Non-Profit leadership development ministry. My passion is the development of excellent ministerial leaders and for the reason i developed this course for you.

This Benchmarking and training process is intended to act as a “quick-start-guide”—a way to quickly get you started thinking about where you are and where you need to be on your ministerial journey in order to, survive, thrive, pass the baton, and finish well. This process is designed to figure out what a good job looks like and then bring our people up to speed fast—equip them to do it.
Patrick Jones - Course author