Hi, my name is Pete Gazzaro. I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader

podcast. Our topic is Roadmap for Transformational Supervision Part 1. Roadmap for Transformational

Supervision Part 1. In fact, this is such an important topic that I almost made it a chapter. It

deserved a chapter in the book, The Emotionally Healthy Leader, where I talked about planning

and decision making as a chapter, culture and team building, power and wise, boundaries,

endings and new beginnings. But this is such a large topic and deserves

its own treatment. I realize now it really needed a chapter or needs a chapter. And it's really

about what does it look like to supervise people? Because it's one of the most important tasks for

every one of us in leadership, but especially for Christian leaders, because

we're not simply concerned about getting a task done. We're also concerned about people's inner

life in Jesus, their formation, because you can't separate spiritual formation and work performance.

They are inseparable. What's interesting is that the formation of the people who are supervising,

it's two-way. In other words, just by the very act of supervising people, it forces us to grow up,

forces you to grow up and mature. It's deeply formational because, as you will see, not just this

week, but next week, it touches a lot of deep issues

inside of us. And I'm talking about supervising, whether it's paid people or volunteers.

So a spirituality of supervision is not simply coordinating work, a person's work around the whole larger whole. It's not quite mentoring.

It's not coaching. And it's not simply helping people reach their goals. Supervision involves a very

unique exercise of power. I'll define power as the capacity to influence. And we do this in the

name of Jesus and for Jesus.

And I'm really serving the person I'm supervising to reach the priority is that I believe

that God has for our ministry.

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