Leadership Resources
1. An Mp3 Audio Resource. Audio recordings (for download/Mp3)
Thinking Shrewdly III Conference, May 1-3, 2008:
THE BATTLES AND GLORY OF LEADERSHIP
Session 1: Battles with God - Mark Buchanan
Session 2: Battles with Co-Leaders - Mark Buchanan
Session 3: A Church for the World - Mark Buchanan
Session 4: Battles with our Congregations - Mark Buchanan
Effective Partnership: Elders and Pastoral Staff - Dr. Marvin Brubacher
2. Church Leadership Documents
- Is God Calling Me?
- How Pastors Rate as Leaders
- How and When to Involve the Congregation in Decision Making
- How to Delegate Before You're Quite Ready
- Plural of Leadership Means More than Numbers
- To Make Hard Decisions, Ask Simple Questions
- How should the Church Treat its Fallen Leaders?
4. Building Teams
- Teams that work
- Have Jesus at their centre
- Have a purposeful (Biblical) direction
- Have a believable "champion"
- Have a diversity of giftedness
- Have communication that facilitates positive decision making
- Have leadership that fosters consistency
- Have a strategy that addresses all the necessary steps
- Have the joy of fulfillment when the purpose is accomplished
- Five Dysfunctions of Team
- Sometimes we need to discover why our teams are not working
- To see the Five Dysfunctions to get the whole story read the books related to this title by Patrick Lencioni