Recently I went to a Christian woman's leadership conference in Grand Rapids. The conference was great and I had a great time getting to know some of the women that I was with better. I have been asked to share some of my experience at our leadership meeting next Thursday. I have been compiling my thoughts for awhile now and though I would post them on the blog. The conference consisted of 3 main large group sessions as well as 3 workshops. There were about 12 workshops to choose from. I thought I would write about those three workshops and just share my notes.
So here are the notes from the first one.
Five star leadership: Attracting and Equipping others for service and ministry – Helen Stewart
“Learn to think as a leader; develop your passion as a leader; discover your greatest assets; develop integrity and unleash your leadership energy!”
Mind/Head
o Right thinking about God
o Know you are serving the God of the impossible
o Know God never changes and will never leave or forsake us
o God loves us with an everlasting love
o God Loves our whole person
o God is Omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient
o The Holy spirit is alive in every believer in some he is prominent and in only a few is he allowed to be preeminent.
o Your team will only be as strong as your weakest person
Heart (will, emotions, intellect)
o Must believe what they are proposing
o Must know how to cast a vision
o What a leader believes must consume them
People Skills
o Have integrity
o A leader must work right along with their people
o A leaders role is to life up students, love, encourage and support them
Character (what makes us and marks us)
o When we let it all hang out
o Moral/ethical choices we make reflect our character
o Expect excellence
o Relentlessly chase perfection we will never get it but we will catch excellence in the process
Soul
Spiritual
Favor/Man Wisdom
(Social/emotional) (Mental)
Stature (Physical)
3 sides without spiritual = dysfunctional people
- Leadership is all about persons with souls
- We appoint/God anoints
Words to Lead by
By Sondra Thiederman
Looking for Leadership? Look in the Mirror.
A Leader is . . . a dealer in hope.
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Where there is no vision . . . the people perish.
Study the past, live in the moment, plan the future.
Leadership is action . . . not position.
There are no shortcuts . . . to any place worth going.
Don’t wait for your ship to come in . . . swim out to meet it.
Most things are difficult . . . before they are easy.
Act like you’re invincible; know that you’re not.
Fail to honor people . . . and they will fail to honor you.
Blame softly . . . praise loudly.
The more you say .. . the less they remember.
Be grateful for luck, but . . . don’t count on it.
It’s not what happens when you’re there.
It’s what happens when you’re not.
Think with your heart.
Authority is a poor substitute for leadership.
Hold everyone to high standards.
Hold yourself to a high standard.
Listen . . . and lead!
Remember . . . there’s always room at the top.
But even more room at the bottom.
So . . . see out people . . .
Better than you, different from you, braver than you.
The time is always right . . . to do what’s right
Keep your promises; Keep your confidences,
Keep your temper.
Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?
Be out . . . and about.
Enjoy the process . . . but crave the goal.
We will either find a way . . . or make one.
Be not afraid of greatness.
Real leaders are ordinary people . . . with extraordinary determination.
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