Courses tagged with "Leadership"
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Teen Challenge Culture/Core Values
Developing Core Values
This course covers the basics of Core values. It will define core values, what they are and are not. It then goes on to explain how to discover, develop and then implement Biblical core values. This presentation was compiled from the book Values-Driven Leadership: Discovering and Developing Your Core Values for Ministry by Aubrey Malphurs.
View Course →TC Core Values Introduction
This session is a basic introduction to the Teen Challenge core values and answers the questions: What are core values? Why did Teen Challenge establish these? How will these become your core values? This whole series is designed as a first teaching on core values for entry level staff.
View Course →TC Core Value 1 - Integrity
Integrity: Living and working with excellence. This explores the basics of the TC core value Integrity. What is integrity? Why is it so important? How can I develop integrity in my life? How do Teen Challenge students view integrity?
View Course →TC Core Value 2 - Compassion
Compassion: Embracing hope, love, and reconciliation. This explores the basics of the TC core value Compassion. What is it and who needs it? At Teen Challenge, how do you show compassion? What are its limits?
View Course →TC Core Value 3 - Community
Community: Working together and supporting one another. This explores the basics of the TC core value community. What is it and what priority does it have in Teen Challenge? How do we work together at Teen Challenge to display true community?
View Course →TC Core Value 4 - Vision
Vision: Seeing beyond the present. This explores the basics of the TC core value vision. What is vision and how do we get God's vision? How does a drug addict view vision? How do we help TC students develop God's vision?
View Course →TC Core Value 5 - Stewardship
Stewardship: Faithfully managing God's call and resources. This explores the basics of the TC core value Stewardship. What is stewardship? How can I be a good steward of relationships? What resources has God given me to manage at Teen Challenge?
View Course →TC Core Value 6 - Faith
Faith: Believing God for the impossible. This explores the basics of the TC core value Faith. What is faith and how can I respond with faith at Teen Challenge? How can I lead TC students into a life of faith?
View Course →TC Core Value 7 - Servanthood
Servanthood: Dedicating ourselves to the success of others. This explores the basics of the TC core value Servanthood. What are the characteristics of a good servant? How do students from a background of addiction view servanthood?
View Course →TC Core Values Next Steps
This course is designed to be taught after one has already completed the basic courses on the 7 Teen Challenge core values. This session looks at 21 different ways you can take these core values out of the classroom and begin to use them in your daily life and work.
View Course →Our Core Values - International Version
Time has been taken in this book to define in detail the TC core values as a model for any TC program around the world. Dr. Nance has carefully presented the principles and practical truth surrounding each of the core values in such a way that they can be applied to any TC context. Questions have been included at the end of each chapter for evaluation and reflection. There are also many insightful thoughts from experienced Teen Challenge Directors as to what each value means to them.
View Course →How can I help a loved one with a problem?
The power of secrets in your life
What is the destructive power of secrets in your life? How can you find the way out of secret sins in your life? Who needs to know about your secret sins of the past? A study guide at the end can be used for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →Characteristics of Leadership
Four Qualities of Effective Leadership
This course examines four qualities that every leader needs to develop: character, perspective, courage and favor. Practical steps are given on how to develop each quality in your life. McManus also addresses the question: what happens if I am missing one or more of these leadership qualities?
View Course →Principles of Leadership/The Five Levels of Leadership
This course examines principles of leadership that are found in the book of Nehemiah and in the New Testament. It examines five levels of leadership and how to advance up these levels. It then studies the principles of empowering leaders. Lastly it contrasts the concepts of developing followers with that of developing leaders.
View Course →God's Call for Us to Lead
How God calls us to lead. Being made in God's image, we were created to lead, to have authority over the whole earth and to use the leadership abilities He gives us.
View Course →The Heart of a Leader
How leaders develop the qualities that set them apart from others. Steps to prepare our hearts and reasons why a heart of integrity is so important for leaders are both addressed.
View Course →The Leadership Test
Describes ten tests in life that reveal a leader's potential and maturity.
View Course →Leadership Begins with Attitude
Ten biblical principles about attitudes are discussed in this lesson.
View Course →Introduction to Leadership Development in TC
What are the primary characteristics that are needed in leaders at Teen Challenge? We explore what are the priorities of leaders in Teen Challenge. An introduction is given on the major responsibilities of Teen Challenge leaders, including the importance of raising up new leaders. We also look at the role of the leader in fundraising for your ministry.
View Course →Principles of Biblical Authority
The Foundation for Our Leadership
In our pursuit of results, we often slip into ministry motivated by guilt rather than by grace. Mary and Martha illustrate this truth. The differences between leadership based on performance versus service are discussed in this lesson.
View Course →Vision Casting
I Have a Dream
I Have a Dream: Defines vision, covers steps to fulfill God's vision, suggests a variety of methods God uses to inspire vision and offers tools to cast vision.
View Course →Servant Leadership
The Art of the Basin and the Towel
Developing Christ-like qualities of a servant leader using the example of Jesus in John 13 when He washed the disciples' feet.
View Course →The Art of Delegation
Delegating Tasks and Developing People
Moses is used as an example of moving from addition to multiplication in your leadership. Methods are addressed about how to select and develop others while delegating the work.
View Course →Principles for Getting the Job Done
Activity doesn't always equal accomplishment. We must learn to work smarter, not just harder. In this lesson we examine some proven practices for getting things done through the people in your organization.
View Course →Mistakes Leaders Make
The Top Ten Mistakes that Leaders Make
This course is based on materials compiled from Hans Finzel and John Maxwell. It presents the most common mistakes that leaders make and ways to correct them. This course is excellent for all leaders and those that aspire to be leaders.
View Course →Staff Development and Training
Planning for Staff Development and Training
This presentation discusses various methods for staff training. The lesson is designed for directors and upper level staff to help guide them in developing an ongoing staff training program. It begins with evaluating the current training in place and then moves on to assess the needs for future staff development.
View Course →Strategic Planning
Strategic Planning
Strategic Planning: Biblical examples of planning are explained. The sigmoid curve analogy is given, followed by steps to effective strategic planning.
View Course →Strategic Planning Part 1- Basic Introduction
Strategic Planning Workshop - Strategic Planning for the 21st Century
View Course →Strategic Planning Workshop – Part 2 – Executive Leadership Training
Strategic Planning for the 21st Century
View Course →Leading Organizational Change
Thinking for a Change / Change your thinking, change your life?
This contains two articles by John Maxwell. "Thinking for a Change" and "Change your thinking, change your life?" These are resources that can be used for developing a teaching on change.
View Course →From Dream to Reality: Building a Nonprofit Organization
Any leader building a ministry or business from scratch faces challenges. The beginning months and years are the most difficult, yet filled with some of the richest learning experiences. Principles learned by Dr. Jerry Nance in building Teen Challenge in Florida from one rented facility to 20 facilities can help anyone see their dream become a reality.
View Course →Success in Succession
A multi-part series on how to plan for leadership succession in a ministry or organization.
View Course →Systems Thinking
Systems Thinking Resources
We have compiled various articles on Systems Thinking to be used as resources for personal study or for developing a teaching for your staff.
View Course →Team Building
Building a Thriving Teen Challenge Organization
This course discusses the elements needed for building a thriving organization. It goes on to give the signs of a great organization and the kinds of leaders needed to accomplish this. There are also sections on building mission and a lasting vision for your organization. This would be considered an introductory course in the Organizational Management track.
View Course →I Like Your Style
Leaders influence people in different ways. Five different leadership styles are discussed, along with a description of their positive and negative qualities.
View Course →How to Grow a Leader
How to identify potential leaders, 7 steps to developing leaders, and 7 pictures of leadership from II Timothy 2 are the components of this lesson.
View Course →Team Ministry
This 15 page teaching defines team ministry, gives biblical examples of team ministry and then explains the benefits of team ministry. it then goes on to explain how to develop and maintain a team.
View Course →The leader as a Coach
Building an Effective Team: Learn how to enlist and empower the right people for your team. There is a difference between a group and a team. The key is to develop their individual talents into a team that works well together.
View Course →Crisis Management - Conflict Resolution
Leading When Times are Tough
Foundational principles leaders must understand in order to handle difficult people and situations. Handling criticism in a healthy way, steps toward biblical confrontation and five stages Paul used with Philemon regarding conflict management.
View Course →Board Relations and Development
Board of Directors Manual
A resource manual providing guidelines for developing a board of directors, assigning responsibilities and operating a Teen Challenge ministry. These guidelines are subject to change depending on the laws governing this type of ministry in your location.
View Course →Board Relations and Development
Resource website - Teen Challenge does not have a training course developed for this subject at this time. The following link will take you to an extensive online library of resources designed to help non-profit organizations with Board Development. http://www.managementhelp.org/boards/boards.htm.
View Course →Advisory Board Development
This course gives a basic introduction to the key parts of developing an Advisory Board which can assist your ministry in carrying out its mission. One of the primary purposes of an Advisory Board is to help raise the needed funds for your ministry.
View Course →Staff Management
Leading Different Personalities
A thorough description of the four general personality types and how to .effectively lead different personalities is the thrust of this lesson.
View Course →Spiritual Gifts
Discovering Your Spiritual Gifts
Steps to identifying and developing your spiritual gifts and the role they play in the body of Christ.
View Course →Time Management
First Things First
This presentation, based on the bestselling book by Stephen R. Covey, addresses the issue of time management from the perspective of effectiveness rather than efficiency. It demonstrates how to find our personal compass and fine tune it to what is most important in our lives. It then gives tools on how to stay on track keeping first things first.
View Course →The Leader's Time: Tick Tock, Manage the Clock
One of the greatest needs in a leader's life is more time. Time management is a must for an effective leader. In this lesson advice is given about time.
View Course →Ethics
Integrity
This basic course by Dr. Jerry Nance examines the principles of integrity. It first looks at the benefits of integrity. Next it speaks of how one can develop integrity. Lastly it explains how ones beliefs, actions and speech can be used in evaluating ones integrity.
View Course →Bible Ethics
Far too often we dwell on the things we feel are prohibited to us because we are Christians. But the motivating factor behind righteous living should be that Jesus said, Be holy because I am holy. This l58-page course by John and Sara Miles clarifies the reasons behind the rules which were made to help believers enjoy serving God and being holy as He is holy.
View Course →Christian Ethics
This course defines Christian Ethics and specks of the need to use the Bible as a basis for our ethics. The course go on to give practical ways to incorporate Christian ethics into our leadership.
View Course →Ministry Gifts
Discovering Your Spiritual Gifts
Steps to identifying and developing your spiritual gifts and the role they play in the body of Christ.
View Course →Decision Making
Developing Decision-making Skills
There are choices to be made from the first day a person is born until he takes his dying breath. It is important to learn how to make good decisions. Decision-making is an art, but it is also a science, and as such it is a skill that can be developed. Because a person must make choices everyday that will affect him the rest of his life, a careful study of how decisions are made may assist people in becoming more skillful decision-makers.
View Course →Priorities and Decision Making
Priorities and Decision Making: Includes a quiz and self-evaluation on getting the most out of a day. The 80/20 principle is explained with lessons learned from this principle.
View Course →Your Decision Determines Your Destiny
The art of decision-making is examined in this lesson. Our decisions not only affect our own lives, but also the lives of those who follow us. Six phases of decision-making are discussed.
View Course →Character Development
Measuring Your Leadership Growth
Emphasis is on the leader's character. Seven qualities are defined and the opportunity is given for self-evaluation on each of these qualities.
View Course →Security or Sabotage
This course examines the problems that can occur when a leader has personal insecurity issues. It gives help on how to indentify insecurity and the lies that go with them. The lesson goes on to give Biblical principles on how to overcome these insecurities.
View Course →Leadership and Credibility
Leadership and Credibility - Making the Tough Call: Your credibility as a leader comes from both your strong character and your competence. This lesson covers the common ingredients in the tough calls a leader has to make and gives ten helps in making a tough call.
View Course →The Word of Our Lives
This two page Bible Study based on II Timothy 2:15 discuss six propositions concerning a leader's word. It is important that a Spiritual leader is a person of his word and knows how to live what he says and preaches.
View Course →Spiritual Warfare
Characteristics of a Giant Killer
Handling your greatest leadership challenges through the description of 10 characteristics of a giant killer - taken from I Samuel 17.
View Course →People Skills
Cultivating People Skills
What every leader should know about people is the main thrust of this lesson as well as the vital role relationships play in leadership.
View Course →Christ the Great Communicator
This lesson discusses how to improve your communication skills by imitating the Master. Matthew 13 is the basis to relate six lessons about communication.
View Course →Leadership and Relationships
Leadership and Relationships -They Make Me or Break Me: Jesus taught that the Kingdom of God is built on relationships. As leaders, we cannot assume we are successful unless we master the art of developing healthy relationships.
View Course →Emotional Maturity
The life You Were Meant to live
Five biblical foundations for understanding and uncovering your life purpose are proposed. An exercise for writing a life purpose statement is included.
View Course →Today Matters
Leadership and Personal Growth: Personal growth is vital to your leadership journey. You will become what you are becoming right now. Without a plan for your personal growth, you will be reacting to life instead of living on purpose.
View Course →Security or Sabotage
This course examines the problems that can occur when a leader has personal insecurity issues. It gives help on how to indentify insecurity and the lies that go with them. The lesson goes on to give Biblical principles on how to overcome these insecurities.
View Course →Personal and Spiritual Disciplines
The Leader's Inner Circle
The need for leaders to build a healthy network of relationships is the focus. A diagram for personal evaluation is also included. What to look for in a mentor, an accountability partner and a mentee, is covered, using Paul, Barnabas and Timothy as examples.
View Course →How Leaders Pray
Observations on how leaders pray effectively in pivotal moments. The three levels of prayer are described in the military terms: logistical, tactical, and strategic.
View Course →Fund Raising
Development 101
Development 101 gives an overview of development in Teen Challenge. Presented by Tim Kinkaid, this 3-part video addresses the following questions. 1. What is Development? 2. How do I do this in a Teen Challenge ministry? 3. What are the Director's responsibilities in development? 4. Who are we addressing in development? 5. How do we set this up in our ministry?
View Course →Finding the Fun in Fundraising
Development 101 gives an overview of development in Teen Challenge. Presented by Tim Kinkaid, this 3-part video addresses the following questions. 1. What is Development? 2. How do I do this in a Teen Challenge ministry? 3. What are the Director's responsibilities in development? 4. Who are we addressing in development? 5. How do we set this up in our ministry?
View Course →Stewardship
Leadership Is Stewardship
Understanding God's principles for financial stewardship - a comparison of ownership and stewardship, along with explanations about debt, saving, and giving.
View Course →Public Relations
The Power of Partnership
Moving from isolation to cooperation in your ministry. What every leader can learn about partnerships using David and Jonathan, as well as Saul and Samuel, to illustrate biblical principles for effective partnerships.
View Course →Public Relations Training
This 4 part video series is presented by Snow Peabody, executive state director, Teen Challenge of Arizona. Snow also serves as the TC USA representative to Washington DC. This training is a part of the Emerging Leaders Level 3 training for Teen Challenge executive leaders.
View Course →Leaving a Legacy - Succession
Leaving a Legacy
This article was originally printed in the Global Teen Challenge newsletter Leadership Link December 2009 and January 2010.
View Course →Evangelism
The Ultimate Purpose of Leadership
The ultimate purpose for your personal leadership development is to be more effective in your role of advancing the growth of God's Kingdom around the world.
View Course →Interpersonal Skills
Cultivating People Skills
What every leader should know about people is the main thrust of this lesson as well as the vital role relationships play in leadership.
View Course →Communication with TC Ministries, Churches, and Families
The Power of Partnership
Moving from isolation to cooperation in your ministry. What every leader can learn about partnerships using David and Jonathan, as well as Saul and Samuel, to illustrate biblical principles for effective partnerships.
View Course →Volume One Notebook One
God's Call to lead: How God Calls Us to Lead
How God calls us to lead. Being made in God's image, we were created to lead, to have authority over the whole earth and to use the leadership abilities He gives us.
View Course →The Heart of a leader
How leaders develop the qualities that set them apart from others. Steps to prepare our hearts and reasons why a heart of integrity is so important for leaders are both addressed.
View Course →I Have a Dream
I Have a Dream: Defines vision, covers steps to fulfill God's vision, suggests a variety of methods God uses to inspire vision and offers tools to cast vision.
View Course →Priorities and Decision Making
Priorities and Decision Making: Includes a quiz and self-evaluation on getting the most out of a day. The 80/20 principle is explained with lessons learned from this principle.
View Course →Cultivating People Skills
Cultivating People Skills: What every leader should know about people is the main thrust of this lesson as well as the vital role relationships play in leadership.
View Course →Strategic Planning
Strategic Planning: Biblical examples of planning are explained. The sigmoid curve analogy is given, followed by steps to effective strategic planning.
View Course →Volume One Notebook Two
The Leadership Test
Describes ten tests in life that reveal a leader's potential and maturity.
View Course →Security or Sabotage
Security or Sabotage: How to spot insecurity in your behavior and the keys to emotional security.
View Course →Delegating Tasks and Developing People
Delegating Tasks and Developing People: Moses is used as an example of moving from addition to multiplication in your leadership. Methods are addressed about how to select and develop others while delegating the work.
View Course →Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
What makes an effective team? Ten questions to ask as well as an evaluation of your teamwork are included in this lesson.
View Course →The Wisest Investment You'll Ever Make
Mentoring is defined, the commitment is spelled out and steps are given to start the process of mentoring leaders, Jesus is the example of the ultimate mentor.
View Course →Measuring Your Leadership Growth
Measuring Your Leadership Growth: Emphasis is on the leader's character. Seven qualities are defined and the opportunity is given for self-evaluation on each of these qualities.
View Course →Volume One Notebook Three
Leadership Begins with Attitude
Leadership Begins with Attitude: Ten biblical principles about attitudes are discussed in this lesson.
View Course →The Leader's Inner Circle
The need for leaders to build a healthy network of relationships is the focus. A diagram for personal evaluation is also included. What to look for in a mentor, an accountability partner and a mentee, is covered, using Paul, Barnabas and Timothy as examples.
View Course →Christ the Great Communicator
This lesson discusses how to improve your communication skills by imitating the Master. Matthew 13 is the basis to relate six lessons about communication.
View Course →Leading When Times are Tough
Foundational principles leaders must understand in order to handle difficult people and situations. Handling criticism in a healthy way, steps toward biblical confrontation and five stages Paul used with Philemon regarding conflict management.
View Course →Principles of Leadership/The Five Levels of Leadership
This course examines principles of leadership that are found in the book of Nehemiah and in the New Testament. It examines five levels of leadership and how to advance up these levels. It then studies the principles of empowering leaders. Lastly it contrasts the concepts of developing followers with that of developing leaders.
View Course →The Art of the Basin and the Towel
Developing Christ-like qualities of a servant leader using the example of Jesus in John 13 when He washed the disciples' feet.
View Course →Volume One Notebook Four
The Life You Were Meant to live
Five biblical foundations for understanding and uncovering your life purpose are proposed. An exercise for writing a life purpose statement is included.
View Course →How Leaders Pray
Observations on how leaders pray effectively in pivotal moments. The three levels of prayer are described in the military terms, logistical. tactical and strategic.
View Course →Discovering Your Spiritual Gifts
Discovering Your Spiritual Gifts: Steps to identifying and developing your spiritual gifts and the role they play in the body of Christ. BONUS: Spiritual Gifts Discovery Tool: 72 statements for students to assess their spiritual gifts.
View Course →I Like Your Style
Leaders influence people in different ways. Five different leadership styles are discussed, along with a description of their positive and negative qualities.
View Course →How to Grow a Leader
How to identify potential leaders, 7 steps to developing leaders, and 7 pictures of leadership from II Timothy 2 are the components of this lesson.
View Course →Characteristics of a Giant Killer
Handling your greatest leadership challenges through the description of I0 characteristics of a giant killer - taken from I Samuel 17.
View Course →Volume One Notebook Five
The Foundation for Our Leadership
In our pursuit of results, we often slip into ministry motivated by guilt rather than by grace. Mary and Martha illustrate this truth. The differences between leadership based on performance versus service are discussed in this lesson.
View Course →Leadership is Stewardship
Understanding God's principles for financial stewardship - a comparison of ownership and stewardship, along with explanations about debt, saving, and giving.
View Course →Leading Different Personalities
Leading Different Personalities: A thorough description of the four general personality types and how to effectively lead different personalities is the thrust of this lesson.
View Course →Principles for Getting the Job Done
Activity doesn't always equal accomplishment. We must learn to work smarter, not just harder. In this lesson we examine some proven practices for getting things done through the people in your organization.
View Course →The Power of Partnership
Moving from isolation to cooperation in your ministry. What every leader can learn about partnerships using David and Jonathan, as well as Saul and Samuel, to illustrate biblical principles for effective partnerships.
View Course →Your Decision Determines Your Destiny
The art of decision-making is examined in this lesson. Our decisions not only affect our own lives, but also the lives of those who follow us. Six phases of decision-making are discussed.
View Course →Volume One Notebook Six
Today Matters
Today Matters - Leadership and Personal Growth: Personal growth is vital to your leadership journey. You will become what you are becoming right now. Without a plan for your personal growth, you will be reacting to life instead of living on purpose.
View Course →Leadership and Credibility
Leadership and Credibility - Making the Tough Call: Your credibility as a leader comes from both your strong character and your competence. This lesson covers the common ingredients in the tough calls a leader has to make and gives ten helps in making a tough call.
View Course →The Leader's Time: Tick Tock, Manage the Clock
One of the greatest needs in a leader's life is more time. Time management is a must for an effective leader. In this lesson advice is given about time.
View Course →Leadership and Relationships -They Make Me or Break Me
Jesus taught that the Kingdom of God is built on relationships. As leaders, we cannot assume we are successful unless we master the art of developing healthy relationships.
View Course →The leader as a Coach - Building an Effective Team
Learn how to enlist and empower the right people for your team. There is a difference between a group and a team. The key is to develop their individual talents into a team that works well together.
View Course →The Ultimate Purpose of Leadership
The ultimate purpose for your personal leadership development is to be more effective in your role of advancing the growth of God's Kingdom around the world.
View Course →Volume Two Notebook One, Today Matters
EQUIP - Today Can Be a Masterpiece
People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It's too late for yesterday. Yesterday ended last night. You can't depend on tomorrow—you don't know what tomorrow holds. That's why today matters.
View Course →EQUIP - Managing My Attitude, Priorities and Health
Three of the most difficult areas to master are our own attitude, time and health. How do we steward thesepossessions? As leaders in ministry, we feel it is noble to spend our lives for the sake of others. And, it is noble. Unfortunately, we often do it at the expense of our own well-being. This session will focus on leading yourself—how to rule your attitude, calendar and physical health. Let's begin by examining our attitudes as leaders.
View Course →EQUIP - Managing My Family, Thinking and Commitment
Three more areas we must master in our personal growth are the management of our family, our thoughts,and the commitments we make as leaders.
View Course →EQUIP - Managing My Finances, Faith and Relationships
In this session we will examine three issues that are discussed more in the New Testament than any other subjects: money,faith and relationships.
View Course →EQUIP - Managing My Generosity, Values and Growth
In this session, we will focus on three additional important items to manage in our lives: our generosity, our values and our personal growth.
View Course →EQUIP - Managing My Personal Growth
If you are going to be an effective leader, you must first determine to lead yourself. If you are to lead yourself, you must continue to grow. Maintenance is not leadership. Growth and improvement is what leadership is about. All organizations or ministries that continue to grow have at least one quality in common: a leader who is growing personally.
View Course →Volume Two Notebook Two, Winning With People
EQUIP - The Right to Have Followers
This leadership notebook is all about relationships. The best leaders handle relationships well and earn their right to be followed by others. They don't assume people will automatically submit to them. They demonstrate character, competence and chemistry with others and people follow because they want to, not because they have to do so.
View Course →EQUIP - Are We Prepared for Relationships?
In this notebook, (Winning with People) you will study several "people principles" that have helped leaders connect with people over the centuries. We believe they are timeless and universal. Beginning in this lesson, we will study biblical examples of each principle.
View Course →EQUIP - Are We Willing to Focus on Others?
In order to increase your ability to connect with people, we will examine six people principles that answer the connection question: "Are we willing to focus on others?"
View Course →EQUIP - Can We Build Mutual Trust?
Remember: relationships are the currency of God's Kingdom. If we fail at these, we fail spiritually (I John 4:20). The people principles we will examine in this lesson all answer the question: "Can we build mutual trust?"
View Course →EQUIP - Are We Willing to Invest in Others?
The best relationships are always the result of unselfish giving. The following five people principles offer insights on some of the most important ways we can invest in relationships.
View Course →EQUIP - Can We Create a Win-Win Relationship?
Synergy can be defined as combined or cooperative action that often increases each other's effectiveness. Synergy is the result of win-win relationships. The only way to build a positive, long-lasting, synergistic relationship is to make sure everybody wins! The following people principles answer the question, "Can we create a win-win relationship?"
View Course →Volume Two Notebook Three, 360 Degree Leader
EQUIP - The Myths of Leading from the Middle of an Organization
In the following six lessons, we will study principles that will help you lead effectively from anywhere in your ministry or organization. First, let's look at some of the myths believed by many people who do not hold the top leadership position.
View Course →EQUIP - The Challenges 360° Leaders Face
If you are a leader in the middle of an organization, you have a challenging job. Everyone who attempts to serve effectively as a 360° Leader faces common challenges. At times you may feel like you are banging your head against a brick wall. In this lesson we will discuss seven challenges faced by middle level leaders.
View Course →EQUIP - The Principles 360° Leaders Practice to Lead Up
The 360° Leader must learn the skills to lead up (with your leader), lead across (with your colleagues), and lead down (with your followers). Each of these draws on different principles and requires different skills. Leading up is the greatest challenge.
View Course →EQUIP - The Principles 360° Leaders Practice to Lead Across
If you want to gain influence and credibility with people working alongside you, there are principles that must be followed. Let's discuss them in this lesson.
View Course →EQUIP - The Principles 360° Leaders Practice to Lead Down
The 360° Leader helps those below him or her discover and reach their potential. This lesson covers several principles to follow in this process.
View Course →EQUIP - The 360° Leader and Generosity
The effective 360° Leader is generous in attitude and action. In all of his relationships he models generosity.
View Course →Volume Two Notebook Four, Thinking For A Change
EQUIP - Change Your Thinking and Change Your Life
In his book, Thinking for a Change, John C. Maxwell says, "If you are willing to change your thinking, you can change your feelings. If you change your feelings, you can change your actions. And changing your actions – based on good thinking – can change your life."
View Course →EQUIP - Focused Thinking and Creative Thinking
The focused thinker establishes priorities, knowing that one person cannot do everything. He drops some good activities in order to passionately embrace a cause that truly makes a difference. He refuses to be like a bumblebee, flitting from place to place, leaving a blur, but not a mark.
View Course →EQUIP - Realistic Thinking and Strategic Thinking
Many people seem to think that realistic thinking is negative thinking, especially men and women who are naturally optimistic. It is not unusual for those who avoid realistic thinking to make decisions based on "idealistic thinking" without adequate consideration of the realities they face. Such decisions often result in disappointment.
View Course →EQUIP - Possibility Thinking and Reflective Thinking
Leaders who embrace possibility thinking are capable of accomplishing tasks that most people consider impossible.
View Course →EQUIP - Popular Thinking and Shared Thinking
If you refuse to follow the crowd and insist on making decisions based upon what is right rather than what is popular, you will be quite unpopular at times. Why should you question popular thinking?
View Course →EQUIP - Unselfish Thinking and Bottom-Line Thinking
In this lesson, we are going to consider the last two thinking skills taught by John C. Maxwell in his book, Thinking for a Change.
View Course →Volume Two Notebook Five, Failing Forward
EQUIP - Failing Forward
If everyone fails, then it is crucially important that we learn to fail forward. In other words, we need to learn how to turn mistakes into stepping stones to success.
View Course →EQUIP - Rethinking Failure
People are not failures until they believe they are. We must learn the difference between failing at something and being a failure. Mistakes become failures only when we consistently respond to them incorrectly.
View Course →EQUIP - Failure Is an Inside Job
No matter whether the difficulty is self-created or comes from outward circumstances, the feeling of failure is created within them. Failure is always an inside job.
View Course →EQUIP - Turn Adversity into Advantage
Many people who struggle with chronic failure do so because they think of no one but themselves. People who desire to fail forward must turn their attention away from themselves and toward helping others. This process can be called "getting over yourself."
View Course →EQUIP - Make Failure Your Best Friend
If you whine and complain every time you fail, then failure will remain your enemy. But if you learn from your failures, then you actually benefit from them and that makes failure your friend.
View Course →EQUIP - The Power of Persistence
Persistence is the little difference that makes the big difference when it comes to failing forward. It separates those who achieve success from those who only dream about it.
View Course →Volume Two Notebook Six, Talent is Never Enough
EQUIP - Become a Talent-Plus Person
In the beginning of a task, talent will give you a head start; but the advantage talent gives lasts only a short time. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. Some vitally important choices are required in order to convert talent into results.
View Course →EQUIP - Talent Plus Initiative and Focus
Talent-plus people understand the importance of the first step. They don't wait for all conditions to be perfect to move forward. They don't wait for all problems and obstacles to disappear. They don't wait until they have no fear. They take action. Where you finish in life is not determined by where you start, but by whether you start.
View Course →EQUIP - Talent Plus Preparation and Practice
Achievement follows preparation. Talent wants to jump into action, but preparation positions talent to be highly effective. Talent plus preparation often leads to success. Talent minus preparation often leads to disaster.
View Course →EQUIP - Talent Plus Perseverance and Courage
Perseverance can be defined as "staying power." Perseverance is about finishing. Talent provides hope for accomplishment, but perseverance guarantees it.
View Course →EQUIP - Talent Plus Teachability, Character
Teachability is not so much about competence and mental capacity as it is about attitude. It is the desire to listen, learn and apply. It is the hunger to discover and grow. Talented individuals with teachable attitudes become talent-plus leaders.
View Course →EQUIP - Talent Plus Relationships and Teamwork
You can trace your successes and failures in life to your most significant relationships. Surround yourself with people who add value to you and encourage you, and your talent will go in a positive direction. Spend time with people who constantly drain you, pull you in the wrong direction or try to knock you down, and it will be almost impossible for your talent to reach its highest potential.
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