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  • Peter Drucker – 9 Functions of a Mentor

    I don’t care who you are or what you do. Be a mentor. Have a mentor. Don’t worry if you don’t understand mentoring. Just go engage in one of the nine behaviors that follow. 9 Functions of a Mentor: “Define the landscape.” Focus on details to get things done – see the landscape to plot…

  • 5 Keys To Multiplying Leaders

    Came across these notes from a talk by Oscar Muriu, Pastor of Nairobi Chapel on the subject of Multiplying Leaders in a Church context. Some of the best thoughts I’ve come across. 1. Size of The Harvest Depends on How Many Leaders Matthew 9:37-38 “Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are…

  • TEAM KILLING CULTURES

    YOU HAVE HEARD IT SAID THAT, “THE CULTURE DOWN THE HALL BEATS THE MANTRA ON THE WALL.” WELL THAT’S TRUE WHEN IT COMES TO TEAMS AS WELL AND THE WRONG CULTURE WILL KILL TEAMWORK NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY. We often preach the value of teams and try to instill teams in our churches, whilst continuing organisational and…

  • Lead Summit Day 2 Session 3 – Dr Dave Martin

    12 Actions of the Greats 1. Responsibility: spoke about this yesterday (see my notes) 2. Mindset: Desire for more is not evil. The greats have a strong belief system. Fear, self doubt, intimidation don’t cripple the greats. Godfidence. If you think I’ll never do that, you probably won’t. Van Gogh only sold 2 paintings in…

  • Lead Summit Day 2 Session 2 – Phil Pringle

    Matthew 16:13-18 The Four Essential Areas of Leadership (continued) Vision Caster Team Builder Decision Maker Problem Solver Vision Caster (cont) Positioning Yourself in FAITH God lives in the positive mode Faith enables you to function properly even when you have tough things happening. Three Areas of Faith Faith in God: Faith in Others: (team) environment…

  • Lead Summit Day 2 Session 1 – Paul Scanlon

    The best is yet to come as more to do with us than we think it does. The Blessing of Low Maintenance People Low maintenance people are not celebrated but they are a gift to the local church. The benefit of having been around for decades is that you can see patterns. Everybody loves low…

  • Leadership Summit Day One Eve Mtg – Phil Pringle

    Four Things That Are The Essence of Leadership 1. You Have A Vision: 2. You Are A Team Builder: 3. You Are A Decision Maker: make a decision to start something new when you get home from this conference. Your ceiling is the level of your ability to make difficult decisions. This is including confrontation…

  • Leadership Summit Day One Session 3 Paul Scanlon

    Leadership Elective Paul Scanlon Building A Solution Oriented Leadership John 6:5-13 Jesus greatest legacy and ours too is the teaching that produces the ability to renew your mind. Moving in the Supernatural requires faith but not necessarily thought. Lasting change is a thinking issue not a faith issue. Every revolution is a thinking revolution before…

  • Lead Summit Day 1 Session 1 – Paul Scanlon

    The Lead Summit Kicked off today hosted by Pastor Dave Gilpin and Hope City Church in Sheffield. It is one of my favourite conferences and each year we take a small team from our Church. Over the years these conferences have proved usually beneficial. Here are my notes from day one session one, be sure…

  • Margin, How Successful People Work Less and Achieve More

    As part of my research for the current sermon series at Christian Life Church I read the following article which I thought you would find very insightful and helpful. As co-founder of Hotwire.com and CEO of Zillow for the last seven years, 39-year-old Spencer Rascoff fits most people’s definition of success. As a father of…