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stimulus -> RE: Christian leadership training? (6/5/2008 11:33:46 PM)
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ORIGINAL: kowhai
Hi, I'm looking for a good leadership training course. It's for a team leader in a mission organisation. They need a course from a Christian perspective on things like mentoring, handling conflict, building a team, inspiring others, also practical things like delegating, organising, etc.
Does anyone know of anything in the form of a DVD, book, or magazine subscription?
Thanks very much
Welcome to the forums. I'll try to be more helpful than your first response.
I just took a promotion to "team leader" in the missions organization I work for. It's at the headquarters, not field based, but I'm still interested in seeing what others suggest.
I like John Maxwell's stuff, which is what buckifin suggested (Injoy). He's got tons of books and other materials, but they can seem repetitive (ie, one book isn't that different from another). Buy one and go from there. He is THE premier Christian leadership guru, provided you're talking primarily about administrative leadership vs pastoral leadership.
I've also read Laurie Beth Jones's "Jesus, CEO: Using Ancien Wisdom For Visionary Leadership" and "Teach Your Team to Fish: Using Ancient Wisdom for Inspired Teamwork". Her book "The Path: Creating Your Mission Statement for Work and for Life" was really helpful in helping me clarify my call and goals, which translates into me being better equipped to build a team, inspire others, and manage the practical things, too.
And while it's not a modern Christian leadership book, Robert Coleman's book "The Master Plan of Evangelism" has always stuck with me. It's a study on how Jesus selected his team, demonstrated what he wanted them to do, delegated tasks and responsibilities, supervised what they did, and then eventually reproduced himself in them so they could be leaders who took the Gospel into the world. Instead of just going for the biggest immediate response he could get, he invested in them for the future, and that's how we, as missions workers today, should approach completing the task he started.
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