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4 Popular Topics for Women’s Ministry Leadership Training

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4 Popular Topics for Women’s Ministry Leadership Training

It’s easy to feel alone when you work in ministry. When caring for others, the solutions aren’t always black and white–or even gray! Besides your faith and understanding of the Bible, effective ministry training comes in handy too. If you are responsible for equipping your women’s ministry team, you can send your attendees home with training that they can use right away! Consider these timely, popular topics when preparing your women’s  ministry leadership training.

Each of these topic suggestions deals with practical, recurring issues in women’s ministry. Whether a small group or a large conference, your team will appreciate guidance in these areas.

How do I reach my community?

Taking ministry beyond the church walls is a commandment of Jesus. In the book of Matthew (Matthew 28:19-20) he actually commands his disciples do exactly this. In this topic, you can teach your current ministry team how to identify new outreach ideas, areas of service and how they can individually and corporate impact the community.

How can I build strong ties with my team?

When you work in the field together, it is helpful to know that your partner in ministry you’re your back. Learn the skills needed to add and integrate new leaders, how to identify potential leaders and how to provide spiritual coverage to all the members of your team. In this topic, you could teach creative ways for energizing volunteers and helping them grow too! You should also cover conflict and how to handle it when it arises.

How can I strengthen my spiritual walk?

People get involved in women’s ministry because they have a desire to lead women into a closer walk with God. In this topic, leaders will learn how to worship in new ways, how to effective pray and how to conduct personal studies.

How can I reach across generational lines?

Whether the focus is to reach younger or older women, you need some training. Bridging the generational gap can be challenging for churches and ministries. Learn how to make your message generational-friendly. You can do so without alienating other areas of ministry. Teach your people the value of mentoring and training others.

We know you have a full plate and probably have little time to spare—that’s where we can help! We are constantly developing training events packed with the information your group needs to develop a thriving ministry! Spend more time networking and reaching your community. Contact us for more information.

Leadership Academy: 3 Things West Point Teaches Cadets

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Leadership Academy: 3 Things West Point Teaches Cadets

After careful consideration, you’ve decided to offer your group a leadership academy rather than a conference or a summit. Great choice! By choosing the academy approach, you can combine a number of teaching methods from classes, to online learning and even on-the-job training. When all the requirements are met, your “graduates” will enjoy the accolades and a growing sense of accomplishment. A recent article in Inc describes how the military academy West Point imparts leadership lessons to their cadets. Consider offering these topical teachings at your next event.

Learn to lead by learning to follow. West Point teaches leaders must begin their careers by learning to follow. Obviously, in a military situation, that would be demonstrated by a “Yes, sir” or “No, sir” and the appropriate salute. In the workplace, teach servant leadership. Leaders must learn how to serve the people they lead.

Enhance communication skills. Your leadership academy must tackle the communication issue. How can leaders solicit the results they want? Sometimes, it’s not leadership skills that are lacking but communication. Teach your “cadets” how to communicate with angry customers and how to have those difficult talks with employees. Knowing how to handle these situations can build great leaders.

Teach your team how to make decisions–and how to put them into action. Sometimes the disconnect between making a decision and enacting it can lead stagnation. A missed opportunity is forever regretted! Follow West Point’s lead and guide your team through some decision making scenarios. Once the “decisions” have been made, give them some tips on how to put implement them. This may include adjusting software, managing orders in a new way or changing the way you handle a sale.

Even if your leadership academy lasts only a few days–or weeks, you can impart greater knowledge to your team in a powerful way. Contact us for more topical ideas for your leadership academy.

What is Leadership?

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What is Leadership?

A definition of leadership includes social influence, maximizing the efforts of others, and the achievement of a goal

Recently Kevin Kruse ruminated on the definition of leadership in the pages of Forbes Magazine. First he listed all the things that leadership is not.

Kruse says leadership has nothing to do with seniority or one’s position in the organization. It certainly has nothing to do with titles. Oddly, leadership has nothing to do with the personality of the leader, though certainly some of the most famous leaders in history have had outsized and extroverted personalities. But there are many styles of leadership that doesn’t rely on those kinds of personal attributes. Finally it has nothing to do with management. Mangers manage organizations. Leaders lead people.

So what is the definition of leadership? Kruse states that

“Leadership is a process of social influence, which maximizes the efforts of others, towards the achievement of a goal.”

The Business Dictionary defines social influence as how “the actions, reactions, and thoughts of an individual are influenced by other people or groups.” In the context of leadership, it means persuading people to perform as part of a group toward a common goal. The process has nothing to do with power or authority.

Kruse is also careful to use the word “maximizes” rather than “organizes” in his definition. By “maximizes”, he means persuading people to perform above and beyond their previous tendencies toward the common goal.

The aspect of a goal–commonly accepted and clearly understood–is crucial. A leader must know what the goal is and the definition of achieving that goal and communicate that definition to the people he or she is leading.

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10 Vital Topics for Christian Leadership Training

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10 Vital Topics for Christian Leadership Training

As an event organizer, what’s more rewarding than hearing, “Gee, I got so much out of that!” Not that you’re angling for compliments, but it’s good to know that after all that hard work, your Christian leadership training sessions empowered and ministered to the group.

For good coverage, plan teachings that cover both newly-emerging topics like “Harnessing Social Media for Ministry” to more tried and true ones like “Guiding a Fallen Leader Through the Restoration Process.” If you’re not sure which ones to choose, peruse these 10 relevant subjects and go from there!

  1. Decision-making and the Christian Leader: Demonstrating grace is part of the Christian faith but what happens when that impedes important decisions.
  2. Introverted and Extroverted Leadership: Every leader is different! Do you know which category you fall into?
  3. Listening Like Christ: Leaders need to fine-tune their active listening skills in order to prescribe a solution accurately.
  4. Servant Leaders: Teach your team how to serve and love one another like past servant leaders.
  5. When Tragedy Strikes a Congregation: From natural disasters to family tragedies, they do occur. Does your staff now how to minister to the congregation during times of grief.
  6. Communicating Effectively with Your Ministry Team: You like to email but he prefers Skype. How should leaders communicate?
  7. Starting a New Ministry (or Reviving an Old One): How do you start a church in the current culture? Can you revive a dying ministry?
  8. Establishing a Church Web Presence: Everyone is one the web but should they be? Find out the best way to establish a web presence for your ministry.
  9. Recruiting, Training and Managing Volunteers: Learn how to attract and grow those crucial volunteers
  10. Witnessing in the 21st Century: Leaders may need a brush up sharing their faith. Present new ideas for witnessing to others.

If you’re thinking of providing your ministry team or church staff with a training series, let us help you! Our winning coaching staff can bring fresh perspectives and ideas that will excite your group. Give us a shout!  We can start planning today!

ideas for christian leadership summitP.S. Now you can get 10 additional topics for your church leadership conference. There are all sorts of leadership conferences around the world, and this trend is not likely to let up anytime soon. As leaders yearn to improve their leadership capabilities, they often find themselves attending way too many seminars, retreats, workshops or team-building sessions that promise to deliver on a particular topic. While attending these gatherings may be highly recommended, ministry leaders must be careful in their selection to avoid wasting time attending training that does not suit them or redundant training disguised as different topics. Otherwise, the ministry’s operational budget will suffer amidst minimal or no returns.

Download our free Christian leadership training ideas guide, where we expand on the ideas listed above and give you another ten conference topic ideas suitable for your next conference.

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How to Raise Attendance at Your Leadership Summit

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How to Raise Attendance at Your Leadership Summit

By hosting a leadership summit, you’ll provide your team members and employees with the opportunity to sharpen their leadership skills. However, these gatherings only benefit the people who choose to attend them. So how can you encourage attendance to your summit and thus improve your group’s leadership abilities?

First remember it’s a summit! With this type of event, you must bring in some fresh faces. Summits typically suggest a gathering of leaders who hash out common business issues and present solutions. You must have an exciting keynote speaker or speakers.

Post about it. If a packed house is the goal, you’ll have to talk it up. It does little good to have a summit if you’re the only one there. Beginning six weeks to one month before the summit, post topical teasers. For example, “How many times have you wondered how you could improve your workflow?” Follow the question with a blurb about how your summit will tackle these questions.

Send out a press release. You’ve got top speakers traveling in from around the country–everyone should know about it! Ask the event manager to create a press release that includes points about the speaker’s accomplishments, the full name of the event, date, time and admission details.

Target your LinkedIn connections. Besides those in your immediate group, do invite connections from your LinkedIn page. You can message fifty people at a time! That’s a great way to get the word out.

Tweet about it! Of course, you don’t want to over do it but you need to share the excitement about your summit. Share backstage and prep photos and possible highlights from scheduled speeches. Do use a hashtag with your event’s name behind it.

Give something away. A good giveaway or door prizes often attract people who might drag their feet about attending. These giveaways are a fun way to build attendance.

P.S. Need more ideas on how to fill your Christian event? Seek and ye shall find! See our ample post ‘18 Best Event Marketing Ideas‘!

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The Benefit of Leadership Training Courses

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The Benefit of Leadership Training Courses

For many leaders, the ability to lead a group of individuals does not come naturally, but rather is something that must be learned. However, having the ability to effectively lead is an imperative skill that the leaders of a business or organization must possess. This is what makes enrolling your leaders in a leadership training course so vital. Doing so will ensure that your business or organization will thrive under a network of educated and resourceful leaders. In case you are still doubtful that your leaders could benefit from taking leadership training courses, here are a few of the benefits that these courses provide.

Benefits on the Individual Level

Leadership training courses help individual leaders in a wide range of areas that will help them to grow as overall leaders. They learn to evaluate the way in which they have been communicating with their subordinates in order to determine if there is a way they could better assert themselves as leaders. They will also go through a wide range of workshops that will help them to learn the best leadership styles, which will help them to more effectively lead their team. Leaders will also benefit from receiving feedback on their current leadership techniques, which will help them to see in what ways they can improve as leaders.

Benefits to the Business/Organization

Enrolling your leaders in a leadership training course will provide your business with a wide range of invaluable benefits. Leaders who attend such courses will have a better understanding of how they should interact with their subordinates. This helps to create a better, more efficient working environment, as groups will be able to better communicate with each other so that  they can work as a team. After enrolling your leaders in leadership training, you will see a drastic change in the overall environment of your business or organization, which will lead to an improvement in productivity.

While it is said that learning to be an effective leader takes leadership experience, those who have enrolled their leaders in leadership training will not argue that such courses can have just as great an impact on improving leadership efficiency.

Contact us to learn more about the benefits of leadership training, and to find out about enrolling your leaders in a leadership training course.

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