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Centered Hearts&

but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up

with wings like eagles

CENTERED SOARING

© 2013 E. Stanley Ott

The nature of

leadership

in our day

Dynamic Shift 10: Shift from a "leader-

using" ministry to a "leader-developing"

ministry; from committees to ministry

teams.

Gui Besana for the New York Times 10/12/13

The Mona Lisa

“Collecting” without Noticing

Become a Noticer – of your own Leadership


Leadership

Examen

the art of noticing

A centering Question: Who is with you?

A centering prayer: Lord, who do you want with me?

Faith in our Lord

Alignment in vision

Humility

Inquiry

Willing to experiment

Work-able-with-able – permission-givers

The Future Leadership Gap


Ministry Team Life = Small

Group + Work

MT = +

MT = Small + Committee

Group Work

Life


Five Centering Practices:

Seven Threads of Team Relationships

Team Disciplines:

*Word-Share-Prayer

*Prayer Partners

*Shared Meals

*Annual Retreats (or

regular retreats)

WORD

SHARE

PRAYER

Send to ministry and mission


Small Group Life

Layering

The Seven Threads of Ministry Team Relationships:

1. Spiritual Disciplines2. Face-to-Face Relationships3. Confidentiality4. Communication5. Clear expectations6. Loose-tight7. Loving Loyalty

For a healthy congregational spirit: The 4 S’s

(No) Secrets

(No) Surprises

(No) Subversion

(Lots of) Support

• William J. Carl III Best Advice pp 39-44.

Dynamic Shift 2: Shift from merely

running programs to implementing

a vision for ministry.

William Glasser: role orientation vs

goal orientation

Vision is seeing what God

wants to do through you.

James R. Tozer

Incline

Recline

Decline

Incline

Recline

Decline

From Stasis to Movement

“The present system is

perfectly designed to get

the results it gets!”

W. Edwards Deming

Dynamic Shift 10: shift from a maintenance

mentality to a sustaining and advancing

vison.

Bless & Add

Micro and Macro planning –

small and big picture (do-lists &

moonshots)

Do Lists + Your calendar


PPT – Protected Planning Time

Do LIst

WIGS and W&W Goals

For more on WIGS: The Four Disciplines of Execution by Covey and McChesney

The reality of the Whirlwind

WIGS = Wildly Important Goals

W & W Goals – What and When

Vision – Goals - Plans

Learn to live with the load

of the unfinished. Bob Oerter

The 10/90 Rule –

Leading people without losing them!

10% Technical What are we going to do?

90% TacticalHow to keep people on board?!

The 10-90 Rule

Goals and Planning (the 5%

question)

A vision without a plan is only a wish

For Christian leaders, planning is a

spiritual discipline.

It is the hinge between aspiration and

accomplishment.

This Is Generation Flux(The Fast Company 1/9/12)

Flux is not merely

“change.” Flux is

continuous change.

When given the choice between your own deep change (in whatyou are willing to do or live with) or the slow death of your Organization, what percent of people choose deep change?

Robert Quinn Deep Change

All leadership comes down to this: changing people's behavior. Why is that so damn hard? Science offers some

surprising new answers -- and ways to do better.

What if you were given that choice? For real. What if it weren't just the hyperbolic rhetoric that conflates

corporate performance with life and death? Not the overblown exhortations of a rabid boss, or a slick

motivational speaker, or a self-dramatizing CEO. We're talking actual life or death now. Your own life or death.

What if a well-informed, trusted authority figure said you had to make difficult and enduring changes in the way

you think and act? If you didn't, your time would end soon -- a lot sooner than it had to. Could you change when

change really mattered? When it mattered most?

Yes, you say?

Try again.

Yes?

You're probably deluding yourself.

You wouldn't change.

Don't believe it? You want odds? Here are the odds, the scientifically studied odds: nine to one. That's nine to

one against you. How do you like those odds?

ALAN DEUTSCHMAN

http://www.fastcompany.com/user/8

Road Blocks to Transformation:

Complacency

Be Happy Don’t Worry

Turf

Don’t Change it

Limited

Bandwidth

The Pressure of

Present Demand

On the leadership issues Surrounding attachment and detachment…because we hold on to what we know.

Group Work –

Of these matters which is most

relevant to your next steps?

Why?

Makrothumia

Makro = Long

Thumia =

heat/temper

Makrothumia• long temper

• Patience

• The grace of getting

along

Love is a willingness

to be frustrated!

Bernard Harnik

Adaptive Challenges

and Action Learning

Introduction to Technical

and Adaptive Thinking

Sometimes we have to re-

think the structures and

approaches that have

successfully inspired spiritual

growth in our past

“In times of rapid change what

you know can mislead you.”

Robert Dilworth

In times of rapid change

what you know can mislead you.

~Robert Dilworth

The Action Learning Project

(question) – An Adaptive

Challege:

Objective

Opportunity

Obstacle

The Action Learning Process:

4-8 people of imagination and initiaivewho bring a spirit of humility, inquiry and experimentation.

The Questioning and Reflection Process

Two Ground Rules:

1.Speak only to ask a question or in response to a question.

2. The learning coach has the power to intervene• (Michael Marquardt)

The Commitment to Taking Action

Pizazz And Commitment