Development of Future Senior Leaders

How do you prepare yourself for your career ten years from now? Who do you look to in order to get ready for the dream in your heart? How can you address long-term personal goals without risking your present job? All these questions are the underlying concern as this paper addresses the history of mentoring, the business and education world's strategies for executive development and a peer mentoring model is proposed and initiated as an example.

From the Abstract:   The succession of senior leadership roles within the Assemblies of God, a protestant affiliation of ministers and churches, is a serious problem to address in the coming decades as leaders who presently fill these roles reach the age of retirement. The literature review surveys relevant mentoring models within the business and the educational literature. Significant shifts in career employment have driven new research with focus on developmental networks, peer mentoring, communities of practice and diversity issues. A model is proposed incorporating each of these concerns with youth pastors who show potential to be senior leaders in the future.