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  • The Softer Side of Leadership: Essential Soft Skills That Transform Leaders and the People They Lead, By Eugene B. Habecker
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    The Softer Side of Leadership

    Essential Soft Skills That Transform Leaders and the People They Lead

    by Eugene B. Habecker
    With Marylou Habecker

    Many who lead or who aspire to lead rightly champion the importance of hard skills. These are skills that are informed by quantitative measurement and analytical thinking, among others. Knowing the numbers, embracing leadership tasks, and implementing the right strategies are important but no longer enough to be an effective leader. Indeed, the best of the leadership literature consistently emphasizes ...

  • Leadership Essentials: Shaping Vision, Multiplying Influence, Defining Character, By Greg Ogden and Daniel Meyer
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    Leadership Essentials

    Shaping Vision, Multiplying Influence, Defining Character

    The Essentials Set

    by Greg Ogden and Daniel Meyer

    Leadership is essential.

    Maybe you've shied away from leadership because you don't know what it will involve, or you feel too unsure of your own abilities. But your leadership is needed! In every sector of society, from families to businesses to churches, leadership roles remain empty, waiting for people willing and able to step up and make wise decisions that bring positive change. And, in ...

    Number of Studies: 12

  • Making Room for Leadership: Power, Space and Influence, By MaryKate Morse
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    Making Room for Leadership

    Power, Space and Influence

    by MaryKate Morse
    Foreword by Leonard Sweet

    You don't just lead with your voice and your decisions. You lead with your body. The way you take up space in a room, the way you use or don't use your body in group settings, influences others. And all of us hold power to lead in our bodies. Yet, pastor and spiritual director MaryKate Morse contends, most of us are unaware of the ways we do or can use our bodies to influence ...

  • The Leadership Ellipse: Shaping How We Lead by Who We Are, By Robert A. Fryling
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    The Leadership Ellipse

    Shaping How We Lead by Who We Are

    by Robert A. Fryling
    Foreword by Eugene H. Peterson

    Everyone in a position of responsibility knows the tension of leadership. It may be between tasks or people, money or mission, the present or the future. One often neglected tension is between our inner spiritual longings and the outward needs of the group we lead. But we need not feel forced to choose between the two. Leadership has more in common with an ellipse with two focal points than a bull's-eye ...

  • Discover Your Gifts Workbook: Twelve Sessions for Exploring Your God-Given Purpose, By Tony Cook and Don Everts
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    Discover Your Gifts Workbook

    Twelve Sessions for Exploring Your God-Given Purpose

    Lutheran Hour Ministries Resources

    by Tony Cook and Don Everts

    Discover your gifts! All of us have gifts that can be used for the common good. The Discover Your Gifts Workbook has sessions on twelve different kinds of gifts, from artistic and technical gifts to entrepreneurial and civic gifts. Every session defines and describes what each gift looks like and gives examples of how the gift can be used in four distinct vocations of life: ...

    Number of Studies: 12

  • Disabling Leadership: A Practical Theology for the Broken Body of Christ, By Andrew T. Draper and Jody Michele and Andrea Mae
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    Disabling Leadership

    A Practical Theology for the Broken Body of Christ

    by Andrew T. Draper, Jody Michele, and Andrea Mae

    People with disabilities are often excluded from full participation in church communities. Accessibility is a key component of the biblical ministry of reconciliation—but it's not enough. To truly work toward reconciliation, churches must both consider the theological implications of disability and also become places where people with disabilities lead.

    Disabling ...

  • In this interview, author and Christian leader Richard Stearns shares wisdom from a long career in both corporate and ministry leadership. Offering advice from his own experience, he previews many of the themes from his new book Lead Like It Matters to God, including the power of encouragement for motivating others and how our leadership needs to adapt in today's cultural climate.

  • The Leadership Jump: Building Partnerships Between Existing and Emerging Christian Leaders, By Jimmy Long
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    The Leadership Jump

    Building Partnerships Between Existing and Emerging Christian Leaders

    by Jimmy Long

    Leadership is changing. Not only are established leaders passing the baton to up-and-coming leaders, the very nature of leadership is being transformed. Veteran leader and cultural observer Jimmy Long has discerned how leadership positions and roles have changed in light of societal shifts. Authority is no longer derived from positional status but is earned from relational credibility. Leaders ...

  • Entrepreneurial Leadership: Finding Your Calling, Making a Difference, By Richard J. Goossen and R. Paul Stevens
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    Entrepreneurial Leadership

    Finding Your Calling, Making a Difference

    by Richard J. Goossen and R. Paul Stevens

    What does good theology have to do with good entrepreneurship? In this pioneering work, Richard Goossen and R. Paul Stevens have written what many are already declaring to be the essential resource for Christian entrepreneurial leadership, based on exhaustive research, practical experience and decades of teaching marketplace theology. Entrepreneurial Leadership addresses both the "how-come" ...

  • Church ministry is challenging, but the right resources can have a huge impact on the work pastors do day in and day out. This list highlights ten books from IVP written specifically for pastors, taking all types of ministry contexts into consideration. Whether you're a pastor yourself or you want to support the church leaders in your life, these books are the perfect place to start.