Registration is now open for the Mentoring Experience:
Cohort 3 begins February 2009
EXPLORE OUR WEBSITEWe are new, so we want you to explore our website. Check out each of our features. You will find a calendar of training events that may be of interest to you and your fellow workers. If you are thinking about additional academic training, you will be surprised to discover that over sixty Northwest colleges, universities, and seminaries provide degree programs for ministry preparation and/or leadership development! Follow the links that have been provided to reach each schools’s website. At “Your Growth,” you will be pleased to find a personal leadership development learning guide and planning tool called Lead Well! There is more, and each and every month we will continue to add new information. Consider this website to be a “resource for resources” in the development of Christian ministry leaders. Our aim is to quickly point you in the direction of valuable help that will enable you to continue moving forward in your important ministry work. |
CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP IS A NEW MURDOCK TRUST INITIATIVEThe Christian Leadership ADVANCE Resources website is being provided as part of a commitment by the M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust (www.murdock-trust.org) to promote the development of Christian ministry leaders in the Pacific Northwest. Read More... Walter Wright offers reflections on leadership, relationships, and teamwork in his delightful new book Don't Step on the Rope (Paternoster, 2005.) In his view, leaders are always leading from a position on a team. With plenty of metaphors from mountain climbing, he argues that we are always roped up together. Here is what he says about a team and its distribution of leadership: “Leadership is a relationship of influence. When leadership is being exercised, one person is seeking to influence the vision, values, attitudes, or behaviors of another. Leadership is not about position; it is not about person. Leadership is always a relationship between a leader and a follower — a relationship in which both persons lead and both follow. Both participants in a relationship of leadership exercise leadership, both seek to influence the other. Everyone leads at one time or another as each person seeks to influence the vision, values, beliefs or behaviors of those around him or her. However in many ways followers finally determine the presence of leadership. Only when others choose to follow have we successfully influenced their vision, values, attitude or behavior.” |
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