Step Forward explores six leadership essentials through two phases. This occurs during a weekly 4 hour cohort that is included in the apprentices’ paid workweek. (Click here for a more complete description of content covered)

Six Leadership Essentials

1. Communication: substance and style is appropriate and effective for the medium and audience (Eph. 4:15; James 3:1; Col 3:16)

2. Courage: willing and capable to set things in motion through to completion despite the risk (1 Tim. 4:12; 1 Peter 3:14)

3. Character: moral authority to bring people and resources together to advance an initiative (Matt. 25:14-30; Prov. 4:23)

4. Chemistry: holding personal and staff teamwork dynamics in constructive tension (Acts 2:28; Php. 2:3-4)

5. Commitment: engages task or role whole-heartedly (Col. 3:23)

6. Calling: accurate self-awareness for responding to God’s leading (Rom. 12:3-8)