Subject: Leadership
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Leadership An Art of Possibility Film Series
Discover both classic best-selling training films with hosts Ben Zander and Roz Zander and bonus new content. To speak possibility you do not need to be the top guy in the elegant suit. You can speak possibility from any position, anywhere in the world. A true leader keeps a possibility alive until every person involved…
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The Secrets To Masterful Meetings
Are you ready to rid your organization of bad meetings? Surely you have sat through them. Those meetings that… Don’t start on time. Don’t have a purpose. Don’t stay on topic. Don’t address conflict. Don’t have the right people present. Don’t engage those who are. Don’t resolve critical issues. Don’t reach a decision. Why do…
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Discovering Your Ministry Identity
This comprehensive workbook combines a series of seven exercises and assessments to help people personally discover who they are in Christ. The range of discovery includes these categories: spiritual fitness, spiritual gifting (from three different angles), ministry burden or passion, team style, personal values, and leadership strengths (Principle Priorities). This broad scope looks at the…
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Leading From Within
This essay is the transcription of an address by Parker J. Palmer given at the Annual Celebration Dinner of the Indiana Office for Campus Ministries in March 1990.
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The Leadership Situation Facing American Congregations
This report contains an overview of current reports on the status of congregational leadership and outlines the challenges to developing new leadership for congregations. Click here for more information and to download the report (PDF format).
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Leadership On The Line
Every day, in every facet of our lives, opportunities to lead call out to us. At work and at home, in our local communities and in the global village, the chance to make a difference beckons. Yet often, we hesitate. For all its passion and promise, for all its excitement and rewards, leading is risky,…
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The Spirit Of Leadership
The success of an organization depends on its spirit — the inner force that inspires and motivates its workers. This unique guide shows managers how to let this spirit blossom by adopting the informal leadership strategies women have used for ages — vision, storytelling, structure, comfort, and renewal.
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If This Is The Way The World Works
In If This Is the Way the World Works William O. Avery and Beth Ann Gaede ask two primary questions: First, what principles from science are so broadly accepted that scientists themselves are willing to say, ‘This is the way the world works’? Second, how do congregations and their leaders behave when they operate in…
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Congregational Leadership In Anxious Times
Anxious times call for steady leadership. When tensions emerge in a congregation, its leaders cannot be as anxious as the people they serve. To remain effective, congregational leaders must control their own uneasiness. This takes self-awareness and confidence to manage relationships and influence behaviors. Knowing how to deal with anxiety and how to work through…
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Leadership In Congregations
This new book in Alban’s Harvesting the Learnings Series gathers the collected wisdom of over 10 years of Alban research and reflection on what it means to be a leader in a congregation, how our perceptions of leadership are changing, and exciting new directions for leadership in the future. With pieces by such diverse church…
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Lending Your Leadership
As America faces great change, we must find new ways of cooperating with one another to solve problems beyond our individual control. That’s why communities are so important. Yet communities today desperately need leaders who can find ways to create new sources of social capital in the ever-changing culture. As leaders of one of the…
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Serving God With Style
Every church is driven by its faith in God, and seeks to grow that faith by guiding its members toward fruitful ministry. But in the face of accelerating change, congregations often find themselves spinning their wheels, exerting great amounts of energy to little effect: the faith is willing, but, faced with uncertainties, the results are…