Nancy Beach highly recommends career coach Marcus Buckingham's Strength Finder 2.0 book at the Gifted to Lead sessions. I would have to agree with her. This book has not only helped me to discover my strengths and focus more on who I am wired to be; but, I have used it to help countless others on their journey to discover who they are created to be.
The majority of our staff at The Leadership Centre Willow Creek Canada have taken the test and it has helped us to celebrate and pull on each person's unique strengths.
Recently I found a free webinar that Marcus Buckingham did with Oprah. Marcus met with a group of women just like you to help them figure out how to reignite the passion in their careers. Click here to find the 8 free sessions. Enjoy!
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Foolishness to Believe
May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart.
May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace.
May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain in to joy.
And may God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done. Franciscan Prayer
Monday, May 3, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Balance and Rest
Leadership these days requires a huge amount of multitasking. Life is busier than it has ever been.
We have teams to lead, meetings to attend, vision to follow, tasks to do, family to care for, emails to read, sermons to prepare, classes to teach, and the list goes on.
Mindy Caliguire from Willow Creek Association has written a fantastic article and you tube video called : Three Practices for the Leaders Soul. Click here to access it and be inspired and challenged to keep your life in balance as a leader.
How do you keep it all straight and in balance?
Do you plan a weekly time to rest or have a day of Sabbath?
We have teams to lead, meetings to attend, vision to follow, tasks to do, family to care for, emails to read, sermons to prepare, classes to teach, and the list goes on.
Mindy Caliguire from Willow Creek Association has written a fantastic article and you tube video called : Three Practices for the Leaders Soul. Click here to access it and be inspired and challenged to keep your life in balance as a leader.
How do you keep it all straight and in balance?
Do you plan a weekly time to rest or have a day of Sabbath?
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Failure
This morning in our staff devotions we listened to Craig Groschel's IT DVD. In each of the nine sessions Craig teaches and encourages your key leadership on the tangible ways your church and ministry can find it, keep it, and display it so that people will finally get it.
Today we watched a session called, Willingness to Fail.
Craig challenged leaders to not be afraid to fail and in fact, be willing to fail. Fear of failure can limit our future.
Failure is actually a big part of success.Obviously we don't plan to fail, but failure does happen. We can however learn from our failures. They can even help us refine the goals and direction for our future. Great leaders walk in great levels of faith, have times of failure, and keep trying again and move forward.
Are you a leader who is willing to fail?
"You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?" - George Bernard Shaw
"Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose." - Anne Sullivan
Monday, April 12, 2010
A Testimony
We are excited about how many individual women as well as groups and teams of women have been challenged and inspired at the Gifted to Lead events. Here is a great testimony from the Gifted to Lead event in Kelowna.
After attending the Gifted to Lead Seminar in November, the Lord began speaking to me about why waste what we had learned. He kept telling me to act upon what I had heard.
I sent out an invitation to the 17 women from New Life Church that had attended the seminar. At our first meeting we had 10 ladies come out and we discussed an action plan. We left with a decision to meet again and to seek the Lord on what we were to look like and what should we do or should we continue.
At our second meeting we felt that we were to serve the ladies of New Life Church in the form of a luncheon. The luncheon was a resounding success. At the luncheon we asked the women what they felt was most needed for a womens ministry at our church. We had many answers, however in all the answers received we started to see a pattern form. They were looking mostly for relationships, the building of relationships with other women. Teachings and mentor ship was also a high priority.
We have now formed a core leadership group of 8 women and are about to have our second luncheon in the form of a pot luck for the ladies of our on April 11 with a BBQ to follow in mid June.
For the ladies of New Life Church, it is bringing them together regularly to form and nurture relationships with other women, in a safe nurturing environment.
We have named ourselves “Leading Ladies Ministry” - Leading women into meaningful relationships with Jesus and each other and encouraging the journey.
June Swenson
New Life Church
Kelowna, BC
After attending the Gifted to Lead Seminar in November, the Lord began speaking to me about why waste what we had learned. He kept telling me to act upon what I had heard.
I sent out an invitation to the 17 women from New Life Church that had attended the seminar. At our first meeting we had 10 ladies come out and we discussed an action plan. We left with a decision to meet again and to seek the Lord on what we were to look like and what should we do or should we continue.
At our second meeting we felt that we were to serve the ladies of New Life Church in the form of a luncheon. The luncheon was a resounding success. At the luncheon we asked the women what they felt was most needed for a womens ministry at our church. We had many answers, however in all the answers received we started to see a pattern form. They were looking mostly for relationships, the building of relationships with other women. Teachings and mentor ship was also a high priority.
We have now formed a core leadership group of 8 women and are about to have our second luncheon in the form of a pot luck for the ladies of our on April 11 with a BBQ to follow in mid June.
For the ladies of New Life Church, it is bringing them together regularly to form and nurture relationships with other women, in a safe nurturing environment.
We have named ourselves “Leading Ladies Ministry” - Leading women into meaningful relationships with Jesus and each other and encouraging the journey.
June Swenson
New Life Church
Kelowna, BC
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Best Rate for Gifted to Lead Edmonton is today!
It's hard to believe that we are into March already!
Yesterday was National Women's Day. If you didn't know that, click here to find out more information about it.
Today is the Super Early Bird date for our Gifted to Lead event that will be in Edmonton on May 7th. Registrations are pouring in. Groups of women from various churches are excited about attending! It's a don't miss event.
Make sure you take the time to register today for the best rate!
To register now, call 800.804.0777 or click here for a printable registration form you can fax to 250.860.2467.
Bring your friends and coworkers along and make it a great day out. Registration includes lunch.
Yesterday was National Women's Day. If you didn't know that, click here to find out more information about it.
Today is the Super Early Bird date for our Gifted to Lead event that will be in Edmonton on May 7th. Registrations are pouring in. Groups of women from various churches are excited about attending! It's a don't miss event.
Make sure you take the time to register today for the best rate!
To register now, call 800.804.0777 or click here for a printable registration form you can fax to 250.860.2467.
Bring your friends and coworkers along and make it a great day out. Registration includes lunch.
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