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Your Leadership Edge: Part 2

This teaching video will explore the vital skill of “Manage Self!” It’s the second of a four part summary of the excellent book, Your Leadership Edge: Lead Anytime, Anywhere.

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Go deeper by buying the book! You would also enjoy the Your Leadership Edge Website.

Discussion Questions:

  1. Which of the six “Manage Self” elements are ones you struggle with in your own leadership?
  2. How can you more deeply include one of these six elements in a leadership situation you are currently working on?

Your Leadership Edge: Part 1

Learn four skills that will take your leadership to the next level! This video summary of the first skill, “Diagnose Situation” is from Your Leadership Edge: Lead Anytime, Anywhere, a short, but wonderful book.

Downloads to share or edit for local use:  PDF

Go deeper by buying the book! You would also enjoy the Your Leadership Edge Website.

Discussion Questions:

  1. Which of the six “Diagnose Situation” elements are ones you forget to include as you diagnose?
  2. How can you include these six elements in a leadership situation you are currently working on?

9 Fresh Approaches To Innovation That Can Change Everything

Carey Nieuwhof is one of the sharpest church leaders and spending time with some of the brightest Silicon Valley leaders, it’s obvious in this blog post that he’s got some game changing things to share. Especially in a day when “adaptive leadership” and “experimentation” are key leadership concepts, these fresh approaches will help drive your innovation.

Discussion Questions:

  1. Which of these approaches was a surprising idea to you?
  2. Which of these ideas could you apply now to an area of your ministry or congregation?

8 Ways to Stay Relevant, Expand Your Skills, and Thrive

This blog post by Michael Hyatt, subtitled, 8 Ways to Stay Relevant, Expand Your Skills, and Thrive will give you lots of excellent suggestions about how to grow as a leader. Hyatt writes for a more secular audience, but writes from a Christian perspective and for years has offered numerous free resources, including this one that helped me create my blog.

Discussion Questions:

  1. Which of these skills spoke to you most?
  2. How could you apply one of these skills to your ministry right now?

Adaptive Leadership Resources

Our synod has a great partnership with LEAD (Living Every Day As Disciples) and Peggy Hahn, the Executive Director, has created this wonderful summary video of some resources to learn more about the key skills of adaptive leadership.

Going Deeper:

Discussion Questions:

  1. What did you learn from this video?
  2. Which of these resources do you need to purchase and read?