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Time Management for Leaders:
Creating Schedules that Transform Life
“If a leader is 'too busy' to honor their promises, they will be too busy to manage success.”
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Time Management for Leaders: Creating Schedules that Transform Life defines the subject of time management as both an art-form and an acquired skill. Time Management for Leaders is a practical and interactive tool that engages the leaderin an introspective process of tearing off the veneer of shallow performance, engaging them in a series of action steps that lead to the development of a time and life management approach. These actions steps guide the individual through a process of identifying chaotic and connected behaviors and help them refine a productive and workable plan for rediscovering the value of time. The leader develops a worldview that is “eternity-centric,” immersed with outcomes for significance beyond the parameters of this life. The long-term objective is to create a system of expectations and patterns that will inspire optimal achievement in the often seemingly “lost art” of time management.
Creating an APTeam Culture in the Church:
The Aquila & Priscilla Marriage Team Model
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“The Aquila and Priscilla Team” – they have so much unleashed and unrecognized potential within congregational life. Marriage teams already possess the basis for amazing significance in a congregation if they are allowed to utilize their natural giftings for collective congregational purposes. A congregational culture for this untapped potential begins to emerge when one or two of these marriage teams rise up and begin operating within the framework of their natural giftings, allowing them to flourish and reveal their amazing gifts to a congregation.
We have the greatest hope that these teams, like the 1st century New Testament team bearing their name, “Aquila and Priscilla,” move forward out of obscurity and become the powerhouses within congregations that God has intended them to be all along!
The New Testament church enjoyed the presence of a true, multitalented power couple in the husband and wife team of Aquila and Priscilla. Their example gives us a descriptive framework for the formation of such fantastic APTeams and shows us the value of the assets they bring to congregational life. The presence of Aquila and Priscilla in the early church truly displayed the power of “Accelerated Potential” as we will see.
The purpose of this resource, Creating an APTeam Culture in the Church: the Aquila and Priscilla Marriage Team Model, is to set the precedent for establishing an APTeam culture in the local church, offer steps for developing quality APTeams, and show the value and asset marriage teams can be to congregational life.
Eliminating Stress:
Structuring for Life Success
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This resource helps the leader identify the stressors in their life, define concrete action steps to eliminate them, and redefine their future through pinpointing the things that bring satisfaction and incorporating these into their life. The leader will go on to identify the areas of creative specialization that help them find significance and personal value and then ultimately recognize the special people who will reap the benefits of their newly formed whole person.
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
FOR CHRISTIAN EDUCATORS:
Guidelines for Writing Curriculum Materials
Our newest resource is a 4-part workbook designed for hands-on use by Christian educators, pastors, church leaders, and teachers in a variety of settings in the local church and Christian ministry. While this tool relates specifically to writing Biblically-based or Christian-oriented curriculum for evangelism, discipleship, and Christian education, the principles you will encounter can also be applied in a wide range of other settings and educational opportunities to help you create and write your own quality curriculum materials as well as adapt existing curriculum materials you already have as needs arise. The guidelines introduced in this tool will serve as a map to help you walk step-by-step through this exciting journey.
THE PAUL-STYLE LEADER: PAULINE PROTOTYPES FOR
CONGREGATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The Paul-Style Leader: Pauline Prototypes for Congregational Development investigates the personality of each of the primary players on the Apostle Paul’s team in the 1st century, namely Timothy, Aquila and Priscilla, Titus, and Barnabas, and discovers how each contributor exhibits a particular team prototype that is essential to creating a successful congregational-life team in the 21st century. This resource explores how each team member invested in the overall mission of Paul and the early church in an effort to create a congregational-life ethic.
After studying and interacting with the concepts found in this resource, the reader should see the early church through the lens of this Pauline network as a strategic effort of Paul to harmonize the skills and personality prototypes into a single system that contributed to the alignment of the early church as an effective team for evangelism and discipleship. This knowledge will help the modern leader in assembling their own teams for the same purposes in the modern church-life context.
Much attention in the resource is given to team-life problem solving, the coaching of essential questions that help the modern leader create a basis for all team-life processes, and the analysis of leadership grids that assist the modern leader in identifying influences that affect their own personal leadership grid.
THE JESUS-STYLE LEADER: The Making of a Contemporary Leader
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The principles of Jesus’ leadership are timeless. They are contemporary in any given context or place. These biblical principles supersede culture, yet mesh fittingly within every culture. While Jesus was an intentional leader, He was also a spontaneous and intuitive one, responding to every situation and encounter appropriately, without compromising the essentials of His being.
There is a vast amount of material dealing with Jesus’ leadership; and while four Gospels are devoted to His life and deeds, the entirety of Scripture stares at us with the face of Jesus deeply embedded in it. Therefore, the Jesus-Style Leader limits its content development solely to the Gospel of Luke.
While this is not an exhaustive look at Jesus’ leadership style, it is certainly a primer for the critical thinker to examine the components and principles of Jesus’ leadership style and apply them to the issues confronting the contemporary leader today.
THE NEHEMIAH-STYLE LEADER: Saving Dysfunctional Teams
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The Nehemiah Style Leader: Saving Dysfunctional Teams enables the leader to develop a contemporary understanding of the workings and functions of an effective team with all of its complexities and possibilities. The Nehemiah Style Leader takes a walk through the biblical text of the Old Testament Book of Nehemiah, reading the happenings of the narrative through a particular leadership lens: the creation and function of effective teams.
Nehemiah is a leader purposed with the distinct mission of restoring identity to the remnant of the people of God in Jerusalem. Nehemiah’s historic strategies are interpreted through a team leadership grid relative to the modern task of team building. These strategies include: the nature of the dysfunctional team, the making of an effective team leader, obstacles to team building processes, team assessment building, team planning, outcomes alignment, team plan management, damage control, establishing healthy team ethics, restoring covenant community, and team celebration.
THE DAVID-STYLE LEADER: Redefining the Broken Leader
A leader’s devastation does not have to be the final epitaph etched on their gravestone. Three things are essential for redefining a broken leader after a tragedy: a personal understanding of the immense journey they will undertake on the road to renewal, a healthy balance of humility and determination in the process, and definitive commitments to the long-term process of rediscovering themselves in what is often a new, contextual sphere of work or ministry.
In order to maintain healthy attitudes for the future’s new dimensions of life, work, and ministry, these leaders can successfully maintain a spirit of brokenness while not remaining broken. This is the exact place where the broader moments of impact are often realized. While being a broken leader is not the preferred place to be, especially when isolation and alienation set in, it is the place where most of the healing truly occurs for the broken leader.
Leaders who have journeyed deep inside themselves to discover the real possibilities awaiting a newly defined future will not walk away from this journey disappointed after all the outcomes have been tallied. Along the way, they will discover resident gifts that have to this point remained undiscovered beneath the surface that will grant them unbelievable prospects for the future. The David-Style Leader: Redefining the Broken Leaderencourages introspection in a self-coaching process to discover these newfound potentials. Utilizing the life of King David as the backstory for this journey allows us to explore the experiences of a leader who witnesses a series of traumatic and ministry-stopping events as they unfold around him, and ultimately where the path of redefinition takes him.
This resource will help inspire leaders who are truly broken as they travel the path of renewal and redefinition. This resource will also help encourage a truly redemptive worldview within the church for the development of second-chance venues of ministry.
MARTIN LUTHER AND HIS TEAM OF REFORMERS
This leadership resource commemorates the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation (October 31, 1517 – October 31, 2017) and takes a unique look at the contributions of Martin Luther and his team of reformers.
Because Martin Luther is usually seen as the out-front spokesman of the Protestant Reformation, we often think of his amazing achievements in standing up against the abuses of the church in his day as his calling and work – alone. But, when you look closer at the life and work of Martin Luther, a wonderful array of distinct individuals emerge who each played a key role in helping Martin Luther bring about the Protestant Reformation. Ultimately, we’re going to see how God used a variety of different personalities, skills, education, vocation, and even location to bring about the Protestant Reformation.
Take a short journey with us through 500 years of history as we explore some highlights and discover some insights about Martin Luther and His Team of Reformers.
PASTORS PRAYER TEAM: A Team Development Plan
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The Pastor's Prayer Team: A Team Development Plan equips the leadership of a congregation with a tool to create a successful prayer team from the initial launch stage to a dynamically functioning team that will strengthen the hands of leadership and promote congregational unity for prayer as well as a healthy team culture. All prayer models are Scripture-driven and provide focused prayer strategies for revitalizing a congregation toward vision. A section is included with strategies for writing purpose-driven prayers beyond the initial 10 week plan. Tools are included for assessing the success of the outcomes of the Pastor's Prayer Team. The last section focuses on "Transitioning the Pastor's Prayer Team into a Congregational Task Team." This can prove helpful for those settings where larger leadership assignments are deemed beneficial to the setting.
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COACHING TEAMS AND CONGREGATIONS: A Relationship and Outcomes Based Coaching Strategy​
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Coaching Teams and Congregations: A Relationship and Outcomes Based Coaching Strategy brings the strengths and benefits of “coaching” to enhance contemporary congregational life. This practical resource enables a coaching plan to be established and applied to teams at work in the congregation based on Jesus’ Relationship-Based Coaching Strategy, Paul’s Outcomes-Based Coaching Strategy, and the application of a whole life coaching system within congregational life.
Coffee Thoughts: Reflections for a Peaceful Life
Coffee Thoughts: Reflections for a Peaceful Life considers how thoughts shape our actions, tailor our responses, and contribute to the wholeness of our psychological well-being, while shaping our spiritual attributes and structuring our relational interactions. Coffee Thoughts offers 40 reflections followed by personal coaching questions, covering a host of life experiences. This resource makes a great tool for a 40-day, self-coaching approach to restructuring one’s thoughts toward their life experiences. Likewise, the companion coaching questions are an excellent tool for use in a life group format.
Leadership Thoughts
Perspectives for Principle-Centered Leadership
Leadership Thoughts: Perspectives for Principle-Centered Leadership centers on the leadership thoughts and quotes of Dr. David Dalton. This tool will allow a leader to search inside of him or herself regarding their personal outlook on leadership dynamics and will serve as a primer for leadership thought processes. The “Conversation Starters” for discussion includes questions that are designed to be used by an individual or in a group setting to help leaders engage in an introspective look at principle- centered leadership.
BRIDGING THE CHASM:
Perspectives on Life’s Challenges
Bridging the Chasm: Perspectives on Life’s Challenges is a collection of 36 perspectives gleaned during challenging times of life. This resource includes personal coaching questions designed to help us find meaning that is seeded with eternal thought as we look below the surface of the events to discover significance that will build faith and strengthen us for life’s journey. Various challenges are addressed, such as forgiveness, weakness, disappointments, and sickness. This is an engaging tool for a small group study or team coaching sessions.
