It’s Jason Hatley here again – Pastor of Worship Arts at The Journey and Founder of www.WorshipLeaderInsights.com - and today I’m concluding a series of posts about how you can help your Worship Leader succeed.

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series we discussed how to set clear expectations and provide constant feedback for to your worship leader.

Why?  Because you want your worship leader to succeed and as the Pastor you can help!

Here’s #3 and it’s vital . . .

#3 – Continuous training

“Effective leaders are life-long learners.”

No doubt you agree with that statement.  After all you are taking part in a learning opportunity by reading this blog.

Learning is an activity, not a hobby.  It is something that we must actively pursue.  Yet so many worship leaders find themselves consumed by the week-to-week mentality and never free themselves to become anything more than they already are.

They reach the end of a year of ministry, look back and realize they are more or less the same person with the same challenges going through the same motions as they were a year ago.

The team is the same size.  The quality of the worship service is the same.  The weekly frustrations are the same.

That’s a terrible place to be in ministry.  After all, God didn’t call me to be the Pastor of Worship Arts @ The Journey so that I could keep it the same or run it into the ground.  He knows that the team’s ability to grow is directly proportionate to my ability to grow.

As a pastor, you can help your worship leader grow by providing continuous training.  Here are three ways:

1) Create a learning culture.

Read books together as a staff. By reading and learning together, you will be able to double your efforts in overcoming challenges.

2) Find monthly training opportunities. Have your worship leader look for monthly training opportunities.  A seminar, webinar, free podcasts.  It’s out there, it’s easy, and cheap!  (Go to http://www.worshipleaderinsights.com for more).

3) Find a Coach.  The best lessons that I have learned in life, I have learned from someone who has been through what I’m facing, and succeeded through it!

A coach comes alongside you, is committed to your success, provides instruction, and offers a better way to accomplish a difficult task.

I wish I had more coaches when we started at The Journey.  Almost everything I learned in the early days I learned the hard way!

But I learned to capture what worked and build systems around it so that I wouldn’t fail at it again.

That’s how our team grew from 2 to 200 people.  How I developed my personal leadership abilities.  How our worship services are planned months in advance.  How we’ve built a healthy and thriving team.  We’ve done it, but it was much harder than it had to be – if I had only had a coach!

Now, I’m a coach.  I give those systems back to other worship leaders through the Tele-Coaching Network.  In these networks, the average worship team doubles.

The worship leader develops a one-year personal growth plan and doubles his effectiveness.  The pastor emails me and says what a difference the network is making in their worship leader.

The Worship Leader Tele-Coaching Network is a way for you to invest in your worship leader’s growth through a 12-month training experience. Over 125 worship leaders have already experienced the benefits of these systems, and your worship leader can to.

My last network for this year begins on October 15 and is already 65% full.  Learn more and apply online at http://www.worshipleaderinsights.com/coaching.