Leadership and discipleship

Just about to go to Cliff College for the next teaching week subject; Leadership, renewal and mission.
As a deacon I have always found my view of leadership has rarely really coincided with that envisioned by others. Theirs tends to be rather large scale whereas mine tends to be rather more small scale and revolves as it does around mature Christianity and the ability to enable and inspire discipleship. My reading around the subject recently has been helping me explore these ideas more fully. I came across some interesting comments on mentoring that flowed from a post discussing mature Christianity and discipleship emerginggrace that quoted from one of the recommended reading books 'The Missional Leader' by Alan J Roxburgh & Fred Romanuk.

Mentoring has always seemed to be a much better way of learning and growing in conjunction with a journey of shared discipleship than any other I have encountered. It is a method that has been rarely used by the church in my experience - though as I write this I realise I am currently mentoring (in theory) a local preacher on note and a probationary deacon - So perhaps it is becoming a less rare or more acceptable method. I suspect though it is used as an additional resource as opposed to a main tool, perhaps something that needs to be reassessed?