FREE FOR CHURCHES With Toolkit Subscription
Leadership Pipeline Cohort
Six live sessions. Real coaching. A tool built to keep the momentum going after the workshop energy wears off.
PLUS! First 10 Churches Get $100 Credit Towards
Their Healthy Churches Toolkit Subscription.
Why a Cohort?
We've spent years walking churches through the process of building a leadership pipeline, one church at a time, on-site. We've seen what works and where churches get stuck. The failure point is almost always one thing: momentum.
- The tyranny of the urgent. Pipeline work dies early because something more urgent always shows up.
- Losing the thread. People lose track of what step comes next once the energy of a workshop wears off.
- No tool built for it. For a long time, there just wasn't a tool built to help a church actually run a pipeline day to day. So we built the Healthy Churches Toolkit to be that tool: a church leadership operating system, not just a place to park an org chart.
This cohort puts all three fixes in one place: quick wins, expert coaching walking with you step by step, and a tool built specifically to keep you on track.
How It Works
Six live sessions over about 90 days. We spaced them out on purpose: the early sessions stay close together while you're building the habit, and the later ones give you more room, because the homework gets heavier as we go.
Each session runs 75 to 90 minutes, some teaching, some live work time inside the Toolkit, so you leave every call having actually built something. Between sessions, there's a private Facebook group and email if you get stuck or want to check in.
Pipeline Fundamentals
Terminology and principles, the five leadership levels. Homework: first draft Org Chart and first draft Core Competency Chart (Scott's Canva examples included).
Structure & Competencies
Review your L5 through L3 structure and competencies together. Homework: Volunteer Structure Charts.
Position Descriptions & Roles
Position descriptions and assigning roles. Homework: finish position descriptions, Divine Design alignment, and a first beta rollout with your team.
Pipeline Process & Coaching
Pipeline process, coaching reviews and competency reviews. Homework: review the coaching and competency review templates, and run one test coaching session with a key leader or staff person.
Communication & Budget
How you'll talk about the pipeline to your church. Homework: draft a communication plan and review budget implications.
Recruitment & Implementation
Recruitment plan and implementation timeline. You'll leave ready to start recruitment in January, with 1-on-1 coaching included in your Toolkit subscription to lean on after we wrap.
All sessions are on Zoom and recorded. Days and times are tentative, currently set for Tuesdays.
What It Costs
Nothing for the cohort itself. The coaching, the meetings, the consulting: on the house.
The only cost is the Healthy Churches Toolkit Plus Annual subscription, $999 for the year, which you'd want anyway to actually run the leadership pipeline once you've built it.
The first 10 churches who register get $100 credited toward that subscription: $899 instead of $999.
Who This Is For
Any church ready to move from “we should really have a plan for developing leaders” to actually having one. You don't need a big staff or a big budget. You do need a Pipeline Champion: someone willing to own the process and show up for six sessions.
FAQ
What if we miss a session?
Every call is recorded and posted in the Facebook group, so a missed week won't sink you.
Do we need to be tech savvy?
No. We walk through everything inside the Toolkit live, step by step.
We already have a Basic subscription. Does this still work for us?
No, this cohort is built around Plus, so you'll need to upgrade to an annual Plus account and unlock the Leadership Pipeline tools you'll need.
Can more than one person from our church join?
Yes, bring your Pipeline Champion and anyone else you want in the room. This is our first go, so aim for no more than three or so people; the Zoom calls stay small enough for everyone to ask questions.
Can more than one person from our church access the Toolkit?
Yes. There are no per-seat costs, and you can add as many people from your church as you need inside the Toolkit.
What happens after the six sessions?
You'll leave with a recruitment and implementation plan, plus 1-on-1 coaching included in your subscription if you want to keep working with Scott.
About Your Facilitator
Scott Ball is Vice President at The Malphurs Group, where he leads the majority of the organization's hands-on church consulting. Over the past ten years he's walked churches through building a leadership pipeline in person, one church at a time, which is exactly the experience behind this cohort.
Scott also built the Healthy Churches Toolkit, the software churches use to actually run a pipeline day to day. He'll teach and coach every session, and stays available afterward through the 1-on-1 coaching included in your Toolkit subscription.
How to Join
If you already know you want in, register below. Still deciding?
Grab 30 minutes with Scott and talk it through.