FAQ: How often do you meet with your leaders?

As I mentioned in the previous post, How do you train your leaders?, we officially meet with all of our leaders as follows:

• Once a year at the Leadership Retreat
  

• Three times a year at Leadership Summits

Then, our zone leaders and team leaders meet with their small group leaders monthly for a team/zone meeting and at other times individually as necessary. I meet with the zone leaders every other week. I also meet with many of our leaders individually.

A lot of small group-based churches meet with their leaders for a monthly summit or gathering for vision-casting and training. We tried that for a while, but we found that we could pour more time and creative energy into one semester-based gathering. And leaders have been much more responsive to attending a gathering once a semester as opposed to once a month.