Network Revised Leaders Guide

Network Revised Leaders Guide
Author: Bruce Bugbee
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2005-05-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0310257948

Network is a six-session dynamic program to help Christians understand who God has uniquely made them to be and mobilize them to a place of meaningful service in the local church. Each participant in Network will work through a series of assessments to discover their unique blend of spiritual gifts, personal style, and ministry passion.

Experiencing LeaderShift Together -

Experiencing LeaderShift Together -
Author: Don Cousins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2016-12-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578187266

Fueled by the drive to be bigger and better, today's church has adopted principles and practices created by the corporate world. The result is a toxic mix of the spiritual and the secular, where success is measured in numbers and pastors are encouraged to become CEO superstars. Experiencing LeaderShift offered insight into some of the heresies churches have mistakenly embraced.Now you can continue your voyage away from the marketplace mentality with Experiencing LeaderShift Together, a groundbreaking resource for equipping people and building ministries. Experience how this powerful resource can impact your life, leadership and ministry.This Leader's Guide is designed to assist you in equipping your team and building your ministry so that it functions as God intended.In six sessions you will help your team discover:¥The Zone of God's Anointing¥God's Plan for the Church¥The Role of the Equipper¥The Role of the Server¥Why We Need to Get it Right¥Team MinistryA dynamic six-session video series that highlights these key concepts and principles. With flexible structure and content, these six sessions can be completed in 6 meetings or stretched to make an 18-week comprehensive course.Take your team members to a new level in their service. Take your ministry to a new leveling its effectiveness. Learn how to do it TOGETHER!Related Products: Experiencing LeadershiftAuthor and leading speaker on leadership issues within the church, Don Cousins presents an essential guide for rescuing the church from a marketplace mentality. Experiencing Leadershift Application Guide with a 6 session video series on YouTube The Experiencing LeaderShift Application Guide moves ministry leaders from program planning to people equipping so all those in the body of Christ are making God famous by being faithful, fruitful and fulfilled.Experiencing Leadership Together Participant's GuideExperiencing LeaderShift Together is a curriculum designed to guide ministry teams through the core principles of LeaderShift.

The Leader's Guide to Radical Management

The Leader's Guide to Radical Management
Author: Stephen Denning
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2010-10-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470548681

A radical new management model for twenty-first century leaders Organizations today face a crisis. The crisis is of long standing and its signs are widespread. Most proposals for improving management address one element of the crisis at the expense of the others. The principles described by award-winning author Stephen Denning simultaneously inspire high productivity, continuous innovation, deep job satisfaction and client delight. Denning puts forward a fundamentally different approach to management, with seven inter-locking principles of continuous innovation: focusing the entire organization on delighting clients; working in self-organizing teams; operating in client-driven iterations; delivering value to clients with each iteration; fostering radical transparency; nurturing continuous self-improvement and communicating interactively. In sum, the principles comprise a new mental model of management. Author outlines the basic seven principles of continuous innovation The book describes more than seventy supporting practices Denning offers a rethinking of management from first principles This book is written by the author of The Secret Language of Leadership—a Financial Times Selection in Best Books of 2007.

Leading Small Groups That Thrive

Leading Small Groups That Thrive
Author: Ryan T. Hartwig
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2020-08-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310106710

Nearly every church is trying to help their congregants build relationships with others, grow as disciples, and/or engage in meaningful service through small groups. Many have argued that these small groups are the preferred vehicle for relationship building, disciple making, and membership assimilation in the local church, especially in large, multisite churches. Leading Small Groups That Thrive shows small group leaders, step by step, how to plan for, launch, build, sustain, and multiply highly effective, transformational, healthy small group experiences where people grow spiritually together. Based on a large-scale research study of small group pastors, leaders, and members, Leading Small Groups That Thrive gives church leaders both what they want--practical, straightforward, actual small group member voices and experiences, and compelling guidance on how to build transformational groups complemented with real-life examples and data of successful small groups--and what they need--substantial, challenging insights and a data-driven model grounded in the latest research on church small groups.

The Leader's Guide to Storytelling

The Leader's Guide to Storytelling
Author: Stephen Denning
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2005-05-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0787981079

In his best-selling book, Squirrel Inc., former World Bank executive and master storyteller Stephen Denning used a tale to show why storytelling is a critical skill for leaders. Now, in this hands-on guide, Denning explains how you can learn to tell the right story at the right time. Whoever you are in the organization CEO, middle management, or someone on the front lines you can lead by using stories to effect change. Filled with myriad examples, A Leader’s Guide to Storytelling shows how storytelling is one of the few available ways to handle the principal and most difficult challenges of leadership: sparking action, getting people to work together, and leading people into the future. The right kind of story at the right time, can make an organization “stunningly vulnerable” to a new idea.

Spiritual Leadership

Spiritual Leadership
Author: Henry T. Blackaby
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1433669188

The revised edition of the Blackabys' "Experiencing God" encourages business and church leaders alike to follow God's biblical design for organizational success.

A Leader's Guide to Competency-Based Education

A Leader's Guide to Competency-Based Education
Author: Laurie Dodge
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2023-07-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000978575

As interest in competency-based education (CBE) continues to grow by leaps and bounds, the need for a practical resource to guide development of high-quality CBE programs led the authors to write this book. Until now, there has been no how-to manual that captures in one place a big picture view of CBE along with the down-to-earth means for building a CBE program.A variety of pressures are driving the growth in CBE, including the need for alternatives to the current model of higher education (with its dismal completion rates); the potential to better manage the iron triangle of costs, access, and quality; the need for graduates to be better prepared for the workforce; and the demands of adult learners for programs with the flexible time and personalized learning that CBE offers.Designed to help institutional leaders become more competent in designing, building, and scaling high-quality competency-based education (CBE) programs, this book provides context, guidelines, and process. The process is based on ten design elements that emerged from research funded by the Gates Foundation, and sponsored by AAC&U, ACE, EDUCAUSE, and the Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN), with thought partners CAEL and Quality Matters. In short, the book will serve administrators, higher education leaders, faculty, staff, and others who have an interest in CBE by:• Giving context to enable the audience to discover the importance of each design element and to help frame the CBE program (the “why”);• Providing models, checklists, and considerations to determine the “what” component for each design element;• Sharing outlines and templates for the design elements to enable institutions to build quality, relevant, and rigorous CBE programs (the “how”).

Multipliers

Multipliers
Author: Liz Wiseman
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2010-06-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0061964395

Are you a genius or a genius maker? We've all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drain intelligence, energy, and capability from the ones around them and always need to be the smartest ones in the room. These are the idea killers, the energy sappers, the diminishers of talent and commitment. On the other side of the spectrum are leaders who use their intelligence to amplify the smarts and capabilities of the people around them. When these leaders walk into a room, lightbulbs go off over people's heads, ideas flow, and problems get solved. These are the leaders who inspire employees to stretch themselves to deliver results that surpass expectations. These are the Multipliers. And the world needs more of them, especially now, when leaders are expected to do more with less. In this engaging and highly practical book, leadership expert Liz Wiseman and management consultant Greg McKeown explore these two leadership styles, persuasively showing how Multipliers can have a resoundingly positive and profitable effect on organizations—getting more done with fewer resources, developing and attracting talent, and cultivating new ideas and energy to drive organizational change and innovation. In analyzing data from more than 150 leaders, Wiseman and McKeown have identified five disciplines that distinguish Multipliers from Diminishers. These five disciplines are not based on innate talent; indeed, they are skills and practices that everyone can learn to use—even lifelong and recalcitrant Diminishers. Lively, real-world case studies and practical tips and techniques bring to life each of these principles, showing you how to become a Multiplier too, whether you are a new or an experienced manager. Just imagine what you could accomplish if you could harness all the energy and intelligence around you. Multipliers will show you how.

The Rise of Network Christianity

The Rise of Network Christianity
Author: Brad Christerson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2017-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 019063569X

Why, when traditionally organized religious groups are seeing declining membership and participation, are networks of independent churches growing so explosively? Drawing on in-depth interviews with leaders and participants, The Rise of Network Christianity explains the social forces behind the fastest-growing form of Christianity in the U.S., which Brad Christerson and Richard Flory have labeled "Independent Network Charismatic." This form of Christianity emphasizes aggressive engagement with the supernatural-including healing, direct prophecies from God, engaging in "spiritual warfare" against demonic spirits--and social transformation. Christerson and Flory argue that macro-level social changes since the 1970s, including globalization and the digital revolution, have given competitive advantages to religious groups organized as networks rather than traditionally organized congregations and denominations. Network forms of governance allow for experimentation with controversial supernatural practices, innovative finances and marketing, and a highly participatory, unorthodox, and experiential faith, which is attractive in today's unstable religious marketplace. Christerson and Flory hypothesize that as more religious groups imitate this type of governance, religious belief and practice will become more experimental, more orientated around practice than theology, more shaped by the individual religious "consumer," and authority will become more highly concentrated in the hands of individuals rather than institutions. Network Christianity, they argue, is the future of Christianity in America.