Foundational Characteristics of Missional Leaders
One of my favorite leadership books is “Be, Know, Do: Leadership the Army Way” by Frances Hesselbein and General Eric K. Shinski (USA Ret.) This book takes a close look at the official Army Leadership Manual and applies its principles to the corporate and civic leadership realms. Here is the Army’s definition of leadership, “Leadership is influencing people, by providing purpose, direction, and motivation while operating to accomplish the mission and improving the organization”. (pg 5) This definition has three words that stand out to me: influencing, operating and improving. Influencing: motivating and loving others in the mission for the mission. Operating: creating plans, developing systems and managing their execution so that the mission is achieved. Improving: adding value to those around you and to the organization for the betterment of the mission.
So what does a missional leader look like in a local church? Here are eight qualities of those leaders who are seeking to align themselves and their churches with God’s mission.
1. They are passionate followers of Christ.
Their leadership flows out of their relationship with Jesus and his missional call on their lives. Jesus said, “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing”. (John 15:5 NIV) Cultivating spiritual intimacy is essential for leaders to live a vibrant missional lifestyle. For the leader to hear and obey God they must first love God.
As a new believer I read a lengthy biography of George Mueller written by A.T. Peirson. George Mueller lived during the 19th century. He was a rebellious young man who came to faith in Christ at the age of 20 and shook up the world with his humble faith and his passionate devotion for God. Four things that motivated me out of that biography were:
1) God uses broken vessels. George Mueller wasted the first twenty years of his life in hellish activity and God redeemed his life for his great cause.
2) God’s plans are different than ours. He wanted to be an overseas missionary but God kept him at home to be a missionary to orphans. I found it quite interesting that he was a great supporter and friend of J. Hudson Taylor.
3) His persistent and argumentative prayer life: A.T. Peirson writes: “This method of holy argument– ordering our cause before God, as an advocate would plead before a judge”. George Muller was such a passionate follower that he wrestled with God on the behalf of those he was trying to reach and serve. This lesson brought such freedom to my prayer life.
4) His spiritual habits inspired and still inspire me. His primary spiritual habit was to read his Bible on his knees and pray his way through every word. A.T. Peirson writes,
“The passion of George Mueller’s soul was to know fully the secrets of prevailing with God and with man. George Whitefield’s life drove home the truth that God alone could create in him a holy earnestness to win souls and qualify him for such divine work by imparting a compassion for the lost that should become an absorbing passion for their salvation. And let this be carefully marked as another secret of this life of service– he now began himself to read the word of God upon his knees, and often found for hours great blessing in such meditation and prayer over a single psalm or chapter.”
Missional leaders are passionate followers of Christ. They embrace their brokenness. They are wholly dependent on God to work through them. Their intimacy with God is unfettered and their spiritual habits are a lifeline that keeps them connected to the Lord of the Harvest.
2. They inspire others to worship God.
Missional leaders understand that the goal of their lives is to glorify God, to spread his fame and to lead others to worship God personally and corporately. Worship in its base form is simply putting God first in your life. The Apostle Paul appealed to the Christians living in Rome, “Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, this is your spiritual act of worship”. (Romans 12:1 NIV) Missional leaders understand that worship is primarily a lifestyle, a series of intentional decisions one makes to allow God to have first priority in their lives.
They inspire others by pointing to Jesus and unashamedly calling other to acknowledge that Jesus Christ in the only Savior and risen Lord. In their own worshipping lifestyle they model what it means to put Jesus first in their day, their decisions, in their finances and their relationships. In their leadership they guide the church corporately to become a worshipping community by designing and executing a well thought out spiritual formation process and by creating culturally relevant worship services that touch the human heart, lift them into the presence of God, thus bringing God honor and glory. In their preaching they help people transcend their ordinary routines and transform their minds as they seek to live a worshipping lifestyle.
3. They serve out of their unique giftedness.
Missional leaders are comfortable in their own skin. They understand that God, in His sovereignty, has bestowed upon them a unique personality, a unique story and a set of spiritual gifts, through the Holy Spirit, for the purpose of fulfilling God’s missional purposes through the local church. The Apostle Paul tells us how to think about ourselves in light of our unique gifts when he wrote, “Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you”. (Romans 12:3 NIV)
First, we are to refrain from thinking of ourselves too ‘highly’ because when it comes to spiritual gifts there is no ground for an inflated view of ourselves because the gifts are given by God, for God, and His mission. Second, we are to think with ‘sober judgment’ which means, sound thinking or a healthy perspective when it comes to our giftedness. In light of this healthy perspective the missional leader celebrates what God has given them, determines to develop those gifts to their fullest potential and becomes humbly dependant on the rest of the body of Christ because they understand that all the gifts are needed for God’s mission to be fulfilled.
Missional leaders create a gifts oriented culture by celebrating all the gifts that God has given to the body. They provide pathways for others in discovering how their unique personality, life experiences and spiritual gifting fit in God missional purposes. These leaders also come alongside and challenge people to use and sharpen their gifts to their utmost potential. The Apostle Paul wrote these words to a young leader, “For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God”. (II Timothy 1:6 NIV) Missional leaders are urgently calling God’s people into service because every gift is needed to fulfill the mission of making more and better disciples around the world.
4. They have a heart for the lost all around them.
In Acts 17:16 we read, “While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols”. (Acts 17:16 NIV) While waiting for his traveling companions, he wandered the streets of Athens, the intellectual capital of the world and the center of sophisticated Greek cultural. As he strolled through the city his heart began to stir deep within him causing him great pain and personal distress because of all the hopelessness he encountered every time his came across the lifeless idols throughout the city. One man described Athens as a junkyard of idols. People giving their lives, their time, and resources to images made by the hands for men.
Missional leaders see the world through a different set of lenses. They see the world through the eyes of a God who is on mission and cries out to a lost world “Where are you?” and “What is this you have done?” (Genesis 3:8, 13 NIV) They see the world through the heart of a God who so loved the world the he gave and he gave his Son sacrificially so that those who came to him would experience the very life of God. (John 3:16) This deep stirring within their souls causes missional leaders to act and to freely accept the call and the challenge from Jesus when he said, “As the Father has sent me, I am sending you”. (John 20:21 NIV)
The Apostle Paul’s heart was broken not only for the lost souls of Athens but for the whole world. This is why he wrote, “Though I am free and belong to no man, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some. I do all this for the sake of the gospel that I may share in its blessings.” (I Corinthians 9:19-13 NIV) In Athens Paul figured out how to reach sophisticated Greeks. In Jewish circles he knew what to do to reach his fellow Jews.
Missional leaders not only feel the burden of God’s mission but they also act on the burden and act upon it sacrificially. Leading a missional church is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and to lead the church beyond it personal limits. Brokenness, inner turmoil and sacrifice will always be part of the missional leader’s life.
A Brief History of Women’s Volleyball
Volleyball is a truly American sport; its popularity grew through the work of American missionaries. Over 800 million people play worldwide now. In comparison, about 46 million Americans play, mostly for recreation, although major college and Olympic programs have increased the sport’s stature. Retailers like Finish Line and Adidas are great places to find volleyball apparel and gear.
Immediate Changes
Volleyball didn’t have many rules when it started. Two teams with as many players as would fit on the court took up their positions on opposite sides of the net and hit the ball back and forth until one team missed. Later rules set the number of players per team at nine and then six, while limiting the number of hits allowed each side to three. A team won when it reached 21 points in the earliest games. Now, the team only needs 15 points.
Born of Necessity
YMCA education director William G. Morgan first came up with the idea of volleyball in 1895 while searching for a game that older men could play with worrying about rough physical contact. Morgan combined elements of basketball (invented nearby only four years earlier), baseball, handball, and tennis, and raised a net 6’6” above the floor. He called that first game “mintonette,” although it was changed quickly to volleyball after someone remarked that the players were volleying the ball back and forth over the net. The first college game was played in July 1896 at Springfield College in Massachusetts.
A Century of Growth
Volleyball began to take off for men and women shortly after the turn of the century. A special ball was introduced in 1900 and two ubiquitous moves–the set and the spike–gained popularity in the Philippines around 1916. By 1928, the U.S. Volleyball Association was founded to come up with standard game rules and organize tournament play. Amateur interest in volleyball grew over the next 40 years, and it became a leading sport for girls by mid-century. The nation held its first championship games for women in 1949 and followed that a few years later with the first international women’s championship. By 1964, volleyball had become an Olympic sport for both sexes.
The Glory Years
Around that same time, beach volleyball being played in California and Hawaii captured the public’s attention, and women’s volleyball developed into a dynamic college sport. The University of Southern California won the NCAA’s first women’s college championship in 1981. The school still dominates college-level women’s play today, along with Stanford and Penn State universities. However, there weren’t any opportunities to play after college for American women who didn’t want to move overseas. In 1986, the Women’s Professional Volleyball Association was formed to take the sport to the next level in the United States, but a lack of interest led to that group’s dissolution. Years later, in 2009, the Women’s National Volleyball Association formed to try again.
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Leadership At Top Five Levels
Their is a leader in every one of us and this quality of leadership influences people around us in one way or another. Family Businesses can run, sustain, and grow with the backbone of one great leader.
Steps To Leadership
Basic Qualities in a leader are
1. Respect
2. Dignity
3. Discipline
4. People Skills
5. Vision
6. Emotional Strength
7. Opportunities
8. Preparedness
9. Experience
Being a leader and being a great leader has varying levels of potential. The most popular are divided in 5 levels as discussed below:
1. The primary level of leadership is profile leadership which will extend its influence due to job title or your profile. People will respect your authority and power. It is for name sake that you are a leader, otherwise the authority rests with your senior level executive.
2. Climbing the second level to leadership is gaining the respect of our people spontaneously. They follow you willingly and you grow as a person. Team work is successful at this level.
3. At the third level contribution from team members increases and challenges are easily overcome in family owned business.
4. Fourth level is vital from the view point of further development and advancement in excellence.
5. Finally at the fifth level people deeply respect you, notice your loyalty, your sacrifices, and follow you with their heart. This is the pinnacle of leadership reached by very few leaders.
Stepping To Success
Leadership and the ability are two qualities most essential for a person to succeed in life. At family owned business’s factors like ability to have successful relationships, a successful business, and overall satisfaction with life definitely reflects on our output and performance.
Human Resources MBA Combines Knowledge and the Traits of Leadership
The modern, advanced job market needs professionals with a focused attitude and approach towards a particular field such as a Human Resources MBA or a tourism degree. Therefore, shaping your career with a specialized field of study has become extremely important and the need of qualified MBA professionals has risen like never before. The MBA program is designed with focused knowledge, information, and guidelines such that the learners can gain a sound grip over a particular field. Known as a specialization, Human Resources MBA is a vast and in-depth area that combines the fundamentals of MBA like planning, organizing and implementing plus the core HR issues like labor relations, employee welfare, performance appraisal etc.
HR or Human Resources is the heart of any organization. Employees of the organization are the prime concern of HR. The Human Resources department has to look after all the issues relating to the workforce of the company. Issues like employee benefits, recruitment, job evaluation, handling employee grievances, and making room for change in the process of HRM and that is what a qualified Human Resources MBA has to do in his workplace.
The HR managers of modern corporations are often faced with challenges that are born from the latest developments in technology and the ups & downs in economy. To be able to deal with these challenges in a smart and sensible way, one needs to possess the knowledge, skills, and confidence that can only come from the credentials of a Human Resources MBA.
The curriculum of Human Resources MBA throws light on: planning, creating and developing an all-embracing vision of leadership, different approaches towards human resources, forming, evaluating and implementing strategies, labor relations in the country as well as international level, group dynamics, employee motivation, employee welfare, training and development, compensation management, managing productivity, performance evaluation, and conflict resolving.
Human Resources MBA students receive the theory-based knowledge on all the aforesaid issues plus hands-on experience at the HR department of an organization. The latter can add as important credentials to their resume. The program also addresses the economical, legal and political issues that influence the employee base of an organization in some way or the other.
Job prospects for the Human Resources MBA graduates can be in the positions like HR representative, Benefits Administrator, HR Coordinator etc. These days the need for qualified and skilled HR professionals with sound interpersonal skills and people management skills is in full flowering.
Since they have to interact with and work in coherence with people from different backgrounds, cultures, idealisms, and beliefs, Human Resources MBA professionals need to have very strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
A totally different career option and also quite an exciting one, is tourism. A Tourism Degree enables one to fulfill his long-nurtured dreams of exploring a new world. Alongside other, top-end management courses, tourism has created a stir among students and is quite a sought after one.
Effective Leadership Techniques
Should include an apt description of what leadership techniques. Every group needs a leader. Follow someone, anyone to help guide them through their daily tasks and they can take inspiration from anyone. School to the time when you have you in a group format was back to full activity think. Once the teacher announced it, you have a deadline and left the classroom. More often than not, students will be getting a voice at the end. But then arose that a person who got everyone in a disciplined format and order reigned. He is assigned duties, resolve queries and ensure that the work originally had been completed. And if you have studied closely, they do not follow him because he looked, or because he was a bully, but he led technology and leadership qualities necessary to motivate and discipline so that people get the job done had to.
Some people are born leaders. Good for them. But it is not techniques or you can develop leadership skills like leadership. Leadership training, it is always possible to become a great leader. All you need to know some good tleadership techniques to follow the lead. And that just is intended for this article.
Effective Leadership Techniques
There are some techniques that you can follow the lead will be counted as a great leader. Here are the leadership qualities:
Vision supply a target
It is important for the project at hand to be able to visualize the end product. Many lack the skill and that is why a leader is characterized by a respected and followed. To work in darkness and without an end result in mind rather than trying to find ways, which is consistent with a target for people to work and efforts towards a need to put in a need to , becomes the like. If you think the end result – they can provide is that there is a great leadership techniques.
Be Available
One of the most effective techniques to lead your team to go there. And being there does not mean that a physically present and mentally absent. Stay for them to resolve their doubts and answers when needed. Beginning of any project, even when they are trying to find its level in particular, it is important to be there.
Listen
Listening is a valuable tool for every situation. Listen, really listen to people around you. Find out what their problems are, see if you can provide solutions to them. Sometimes those tools necessary for success to provide the best after, there are still no results. Why because there is no effective communication through which you find out what problems they are facing can. Maybe they need training in some things. And provide them with training that will lead to success. But you’ll never know unless you listen to it.
Appreciate
Appreciate the work someone always drive them to work harder, because it will motivate them. Sure you have good work done by the staff and it is correctly identify Make admiring. This is one of those techniques that lead to great results to get ahead is sure. Read more on leadership and management.
Cost Ideas
Get your staff involved in the process. They ask for their opinions and their worth. Make them a part of the decision process whenever possible. They will love that they hand over and that a direct connection to the success of the project will appear as valuable.
Break Away
One of the most effective leadership style when to let you know. In the early stages of any project, it is always present on the scene so they can get their questions resolved, etc., it is just as important to know when breaking away. Like always present knowledge and send you, so there is a chance that they get to you that they do anything for themselves is not fit to be sung. Breaking away at the right time and to encourage ourselves to face the challenges that will instill confidence in employees they will get better. Those who are able to make decisions for themselves.
Promoting knowledge
If you think that some workers lack skills, so make sure you take classes for them to encourage them to develop skills. Encourage them to be better at their jobs.
Progress in negotiations
Make sure you communicate with your employees to achieve progress and to appreciate their contribution. Even worse, communicating results to help them figure out where they want and where they will need to pool their efforts. But the main point to communicate with them and make them a part of it all.
Importance of Leadership Training and Development
Many people have heard about leadership training and development and there is a lot of talk about how important it is today but how many people really know what leadership training seminars are?
It doesn’t matter whether you are going through in-house training – as most large companies have today – or whether you are attending a leadership training seminar; it is important to understand what leadership training is and what it involves.
Leadership training seminars can conceivably cover any range of different topics. Anyone searching for leadership training seminars will soon discover that many courses have no relation to leadership and even those that do not mention leadership may, in fact, be just what you are looking for.
To find the perfect leadership training seminar for your needs, you need to determine what your leadership team needs. It is better to target weak areas first before trying to improve key areas where the leadership team is experienced. Bear in mind that the training budget of your firm as well as the amount of time available to your leadership team will determine which leadership training seminars are possible choices.
Leadership training seminars can be found in a lot of different places. Local colleges, universities and other training institutions are a good place to find leadership training seminars but there are also private groups and individuals that offer seminars on a variety of leadership topics.
Professional leadership coaches are often the primary choice for organisations that do not an in-house training department or for trade shows and conferences. Leadership coaches, like Callie Roos, offer leadership training seminars at nearly any location and tailored to the specific topics that need to be covered for the target audience. These leadership training seminars have a great advantage over those offered by colleges and the like as you can determine the where, the when and the content of the seminar.
Most leadership training seminars will contain a presentation on leadership skills. These presentations focus on innovative ideas and techniques that leaders can use in their environment. At large seminars there is also the opportunity to meet other leaders in the field. This allows for the sharing of ideas and methodologies making the leadership training seminar all the more effective across a wide range of markets and people.
Even if you cannot afford to send your entire leadership team to a leadership training seminar, they can still bring back the knowledge and the skills to you firm.
Leadership training is important for many organisations. It is important to stay up to date with the latest methodologies to ensure that your organisation’s leaders are equipped to successfully lead and motivate your teams. Leadership training seminars allow your leaders to learn and expand their leadership skills and to bring these skills back to your organisation.
World Leader In Solar Energy – An Unusual Report !
If you’ve found the webpage due to the fact that you’re looking for information on a world leader in solar energy, prepare to find yourself amazed. I’ll share several constructive tips on how you can “plug” your home to abundant electricity for your whole family, as well as earning cash for it. Am i dreaming? You’ll be glad you took the time to take a moment to check this out.
Why make the power company richer while you count pennies when you can generate your own power with simple solar panels and a converter, simple enough to set up yourself in just a couple of days? Happily, there is no steep price tag; it was out of reach for many people in the past, but not anymore.
You might wonder how i know about this. I started out by doing what you’re doing – surfing the web for a world leader in solar energy and i learned that there are literally thousands of homeowners in the united states and around the globe who had found success with state-of-the-art green technology which turns ordinary sunlight into an abundant supply of electricity in no time. I wanted to find out more about this, and was happy to learn that this can become a reality with a very minimal set-up expense that is manageable for everyone, no matter what your budget. It seems like at last there is a breakthrough in this field that gives us the capability to have plenty of clean, green energy for the rest of our lives.
Perhaps you’re only curious about a world leader in solar energy, but take the time to confirm that this is all indeed possible – not only you can enjoy free and unlimited electricity, you can say good-bye to energy bills as the power company will no longer be required to dole out your required electricity. I recently discovered that it’s commonplace to actually get paid by your local power company for any extra energy created by your system. And in addition to the benefits of saving and making money, with the use of solar power you’ll be playing a very important role in keeping the planet livable for the future generations.
8 Steps to Effective Christian Leadership
3) As a Christian leader, commit to telling the truth no matter what. As a Christian leader, when you lie or tell half-truths, people tend to feel that your entire faith is a sham. In fact, if you are habitually lying and telling half-truths, your faith may indeed be a sham.
4) Learn everything you can about the tasks at hand, even if it means working in the trenches for awhile. No one likes to be led by someone who has never done what they are doing. This doesn’t mean you have to become an expert, just participate in the menial work long enough to understand the frustrating aspects of the work. Another benefit to this is, when you have actually done the work, you can more effectively brainstorm solutions to challenges when they arise.
5) Lead by example. Do you expect your employees or secretaries to arrive on time for work, and dressed well? Then you must do the same. Sometimes it is so easy to think that you have earned the right to come in whenever you feel like it, or to return from lunch whenever you wish. Sure, you may have earned the right, but you gain far more by setting the example for performance. Do you expect others to work overtime when a project is behind projections? Then you must be willing to do the same.
6) Although you may feel you have earned the right to delegate away all the work, continue to be involved in productive tasks. By doing some of the work, not only do you gain the respect of your employees, but also you keep in touch with the flow of things. As a leader, it is easy to become disengaged from the actual productive segment of your business, and resultantly make decisions that look good on paper and sound good around the boardroom table, but are actually worthless when the rubber hits the road.
7) Constantly reevaluate your own performance. Often, you may spend so much time correcting the actions of others and solving crises you didn’t create, that you develop a sense that others aren’t as capable as you. Consequently, you may not recognize when you are falling into bad habits that also need to be corrected. Be the first to recognize and correct your own short-fallings.
Avoid pride. Once in a position of leadership, especially if you are good at what you do, it is easy to begin to feel that you are invincible. Once that occurs, you become vulnerable to pride, and may make decisions you would frown on if your subordinates made the same decisions. Maintain full responsibility for your actions, and keep them above-board at all times.
Bonus Step:
9) Learn to manage your time. When you are in a position of leadership and find yourself delegating away most of the time-consuming tasks, it is easy to lose control of your time. Again, when your employees see you wasting your time, they will tend to do the same.
Men And Women Are Equal – Let’s Ignore Nature
It has been about three decades since western women claimed that Men And Women Are Equal. As expected of women, critical factors were not taken into consideration.
* The word “women” involves over three billion of them, but the majority of those women do not claim equality.
* Men And Women Are Equal is not presented to women’s logical-minded companions of life as a verifiable fact of life.
* Western women expect men and children to believe their unsubstantiated claim “Just because we need them to.”
* After three decades, western women still fail asking themselves “Why is it that nature did not give men instincts to see us equal to them ?”
It is highly unlikely that a mastermind made a mountain-like mistake by creating two beings of the same specie with sex as the one and unique difference but otherwise equal to each other who will play the same roles in life. In the process of competing against each other for sources of survival, they must give their own kids away for someone else to raise them.
Yes, none of that was created by the intelligence of a mastermind.
It is highly possible, however, that such mastermind created one being as the core of the human specie. For reproductive reasons, a companion was added at a later time. To reproduce, the one who is the nucleus of the specie performs sex on the one added to the specie. To survive, their individual roles are combined. It is then reasonable to expect the human family to stand a chance to succeed, and to thrive..
Should evidences not be found convincingly manifesting that men and women are equal, it is western women’s mandatory responsibility to demonstrate how trustworthy they are by not choosing men’s roles they prefer to play. Those women have an inescapable obligation to be sensible and considerate with men and children ~neither of whom have a claim~ who remain paying consequences of an equality nobody can verify, substantiate, and corroborate.
When it comes to men and women are equal, western women must grasp mandatory facts:
* Nature’s mastermind ~and not women~ decided which roles women play in life.
* Nature’s mastermind did not make mistakes for women to correct.
* He has the last word on all the decisions He takes.
* His decisions are final. None are negotiable.
THE INVOLVEMENT OF WOMEN IN POLITICS: GOOD OR BAD?
THE INVOLVEMENT OF WOMEN IN POLITICS: GOOD OR BAD?
There is a common maxim in the society today that’ whatever a man can do, a woman can also do it or much better’, which implies that women should be given equal opportunity to show case their talent (s) in all facets of human endeavour.
One issue that has over the years being a subject of controversy is whether women should involve in politics. Today, women are not only complaining of under-representation in politics particularly in government. Few women are presidents of countries and senators, assembly members, councilors among other political posts today.
Primarily, there is no doubt that over the years, men have been dominating the political landscape of most countries in the world. What then can be regarded as the dividends of men’s adventurism in governance?. Today, most countries in the world are plaque by myriads of problems arising from bad governance of those in corridor of power who are mostly men. Most of the leaders are very greedy and corrupt to the extent that their countries resources have been impoverished. Having failed to provide good governance in this regard for several years, there is nothing wrong if women who are noted to be caring, fearful, humane among other traits are given more chances in government for possible change in the ‘status quo’.
When viewed from another perspective, women are noted for domesticated assignments, being weak elements who should not be subjected to too much stress. It is believed that Politics is a very serious business involving campaigns, frequent meetings and movement from one place to another, which are indeed too strenuous for women. Men in politics are noted for keeping late nights due to their tight schedule. If women are allowed to follow suit, this can make them abandon their roles at the home setting, the consequence of which can be very grave including broken home, marital conflict, adultery of their husbands, indulgence of children in social vices like armed robbery, prostitution, stealing among others due to inadequate motherly care.