Leadership Training
To quote JFK: "leadership and learning are indispensible to each other". As such we want to provide leaders with as much stimulation and training as possible, so hopefully some of the resources below will be useful in your leadership journey.
Choosing New Leaders
This is one of the most important tasks you will carry out and those you choose and how you chosoe will shape the future of your CU.
Here are some helpful reminders in what to look for and how to choose new leaders (in a CU leadership team/committee setting). Thinking through some of the characteristics you are looking for is also important as you choose.
Looking for and preparing new leaders is vitally important, biblical leaders are always training up new leaders, and preparing their successors - not just dumping the role and responsibility on them and running.
CU Related Leadership Resources
Leadership foundations - leading others begins with leading yourself, and the foundation of Christian leadership is growing your relationship with God.
Delegating and Building Teams - some practical advice
Values/Attitudes of missional leaders
From Northern CU Leaders Training Day, September 2008
Building Teams
Why and how to get others involved within your role in CU. How to look after your ‘team' and build into their walk with God.
Leading a CU
Pointers on some of the practical aspects of running a CU: managing your money (Handout), contacting speakers (Handout) ...
Growing other leaders presentation Handout of slides
How can you invest in people coming up behind you in CU ministry and life? A closer look at making disciples.
Constructive Conflict
Conflict is the downfall of many teams, but what is it, how can we harness our diversity effectively and see conflict more positively? Given the reality that conflict will occur, how should we deal with it?
Communicating and Implementing Vision
You've spent the summer dreaming about how things could be and formulating your vision, but how do you make it a reality and get others on board. Some helpful tips on how to communicate vision effectively and some of the steps that will help make it a reality.
Communicating Vision Handout
Leaders have different styles, good leaders are people who understand and play to their strengths and delegate their weaknesses. Understanding your leadership style can help you not only be more effective but work better in a team by understanding yourself and others well. Fill in the Leadership Style Indicator and then see what the results tell you about yourself.
Other Resources
Books:
Courageous Leadership - Bill Hybels
Leadership Next - Eddie Gibbs (an excellent look at the changing face of leadership in a 21st century post-modern context)
Excellence in Leadership - John White (looking at leadership in Nehemiah)
Growing Leaders: Reflections on leadership, life and Jesus - James Lawrence (excellent book on developing leaders/yourself as a leader)
Spiritual Leadership - Oswald Sanders
Calling Christian Leaders - John Stott (Classic exposition of 'power in weakness' in leadership from 1 Corinthians 1-4)
Events:
e:con - IFES Ireland leaders training conference (3-6 April 2009)
Innovista Leading for Life - a fantastic training conference on missional leadership
Audio:
Leadership Lessons from Nehemiah by Mark Driscoll. The first talk is an introduction, in the second he takes a really helpful walk through Nehemiah.
Past e:con main session talks
Web:
European Leadership Forum - a fantastic network with resources and conferences from across Europe.
Slipstream - this site from Evangelical Alliance UK has some fantastic resources and discussions for leaders in formation, including a monthly podcast and reviews.
Developing Christ-like Leaders - a paper from the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization