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Journey Archives
A good discount offer is below. Dear Friends, At my house summer is over -- the kids are back in school, soccer season is cranking up, and many programs are kicking off at church. Even though summer has seemed like a respite, we at Leadership Network have been hard at work on our programs. Please let me share some news with you from the summer. We have given a lot of emphasis to our Leadership Communities in our ministry. These groups of 12 churches, focused on similar goals and innovations, have proven to be extremely valuable in helping the member churches rapidly advance their visions and ministry implementation. We have just completed an evaluation of the progress. Here are some of the actual comments from participant churches: . . . giving leaders with similar challenges the invitation and opportunity and structure to concentrate on shared issues. It has surfaced our specific challenges, our resources, and our passions and desires and coupled them with fresh perspective, processing time, clear action plans and good follow-up. It's been a great learning process for us as a team. We've
been forced to get things down in print...to wrestle with
and come to conclusions on hard issues. We've learned simply
by hearing what others have been through and are going through. Accountability is the main factor. We feel very much that we are responsible for reporting how we're doing, and this is the first time we've been part of a group where that is the expectation. Accountability - they are relentless - that's good. Outstanding! I'm still a bit fuzzy as to how LN works but this has been a FABULOUS adventure thus far. Thank you. The process used in the Leadership Communities is a combination of goal setting, consultation, peer coaching, accountability, measurement and learning, which combine to give a strategic team a huge advantage over working in isolation. We are very proud of how helpful the process has been for our clients, and we are equally proud of how we are capturing and distributing the learning's through various concept papers and tools now available on our web site. You can see them at www.leadnet.org under resources. We are now exploring new topics for Leadership Communities and will ask for your referrals soon. Our Leadership Communities are very select groups, and, while there are application processes required for admission, once a church or organization becomes part of an LC, they find it to be of great value. If you need to know more about these, just drop me a message to the email below. I haven't mentioned some of our Halftime Initiatives lately but do want to pass along one of the Halftime opportunities: Halftime Summits Halftime Summits are one-day events that afford churches
and other groups the opportunity to help those in midlife
and beyond move from success to significance. They feature:
If your church or organization would like to find out more and possibly apply to host one of these please email Greg.murtha@halftime.org. You can find out more through our Halftime Web site at www.halftime.org. Until Next Month,
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