Healthy Co-leader Relationships

March 21, 2011 at 12:36 am Leave a comment

To what famous partners would you compare you and your co-leader’s relationship? To Batman and Robin (leader and sidekick)? To Tom and Jerry (you try to kill each other)? To Romeo and Juliet (let’s hope not! Unless you’re married, but don’t try the poison thing)?

I want to challenge you to shoot for a Shaggy/Scooby Doo relationship with your co-leader. Not that you should be unusually scared of ghosts, eat epically long sandwiches, and jump into each other’s arms. And no, don’t accuse me of comparing girls to dogs.

Here are some marks of healthy co-leader relationships. Healthy co-leaders…

Have a healthy friendship. They take time, in addition to preparation, to hear about what’s going on in each other’s lives and develop good chemistry that translates to good group chemistry.
Make it a priority to meet together every week. They find a consistent meeting time to prepare so that they don’t have to rush through, but can both prepare and develop a healthy friendship.
Eat lots of vegetables. Just kidding.
Are equally prepared and equally invested in the group.
Plan together to create fellowship opportunities for the group (whole group or smaller settings).
Evaluate well. They discuss their thoughts on the progress of the group: what’s going well, what needs to improve.

Maybe the Shaggy/Scooby combo isn’t the best in the world, but it’ll do for now. How is your relationship will your co-leader going?