The Givens for Leadership / Team Building

Leadership / Team Building Tasks for New Workers

1. Complete The Equipping Ministry - A Biblical Basis for Leadership Development & Team Building.
2. Apply a Gift Assessment for students using and the PLACE profile.
3. Use a spiritual growth plan for the Leadership Team that includes weekly conferences.
4. Read A Manifesto for Growing Leaders on Your Campus by Tim Elmore.
5. Complete Servanthood - A Biblical Basis for Servant Leadership by end of your second fall semester.
6. Organize and implement two Leadership Team Retreats - one before school in the fall and one in the spring.
7. Develop a leadership strategy for your BSM including leadership structure, recruitment plan, and personal growth plan (implementation to begin April of first year).
8. Read Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence for Every Believer by J. Oswald Sanders
9. Continue developing your campus leadership strategy.
10. Enlist a Campus Missionary Intern for year 3.
11. Visit another like campus (with similar leadership structure).

1. A Manifesto for Growing Leaders on Your Campus by Tim Elmore
2. Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence for Every Believer by J. Oswald Sanders
3. Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership: Seeking God in the Crucible of Ministry by Ruth Haley Barton

1. Courageous Leadership by Bill Hybels
2. Disciples Prayer Life Walking in Fellows by T.W. Hunt
3. Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God by Henry Blackaby
4. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins
5. Jesus on Leadership by Gene Wilkes
6. Mentoring: How to Invest Your Life in Others by Tim Elmore
7. Personal Bible Study Methods by Rick Warren
8. Revolution in Leadership: Training Apostles for Tomorrow's Church by Reggie McNeal
9. Serve to Lead: Your Transformational 21st Century Leadership System by James M. Strock
10. Spiritual Disciplines Companion: Bible Studies and Practices to Transform Your Soul by Jan Johnson
11. The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow by John Maxwell
12. A Work of Heart: Understanding How God Shapes Spiritual Leaders by Reggie McNeal
13. Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership: The Paradox of Personal Dysfunction by Gary McIntosh and Samuel Rima
14. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by James Collins and Jerry Porras
15. Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Self Leadership by Ken Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi and Drea Zigarmi
16. Uniquely You in Christ (spiritual gifts and personality types profile) by Mels Carbonell, 1-800-501-0490
17. Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems by Barry Johnson
18. The Bridger Generation by Thom S. Rainer
19. The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John Maxwell
20. What Leaders Really Do by John Kotter
21. The Equipping of Disciples by John Hendrix and Lloyd Householder