Anyone can become a better leader with the right information and guidance. Hugh Ballou shares his experience and knowledge from 31 years of leadership coaching and training in this concise leadership tutorial.
With decades of experience in starting and leading ministries, churches and networks, Bill Woolsey now invests his life in men and women who want to reach people for Jesus in new, creative ways.
After serving congregations in the Midwest, he and his family planted CrossPoint Community Church in Houston, a congregation that led his denomination (LCMS) in baptisms for much of the 2000s. In 2009 he led the launch of FiveTwo, a network that helps men and women grow their God-given dreams into ministries and businesses that last.
Bill authored “Seven Steps to Start,” a practical ‘how-to-start’ book written from a front-row seat of over 30 years of outreach experience. He and his wife of 34 years, Julie, have 3 children: Timothy, and his wife, Caitlyn; Abigail, her husband Nick and son, Ezra; and Samuel.
For more about Bill and his work, go to https://fivetwo.com/
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DAVID PERRY, Executive Director is a Blacksburg native, has been with the Blue Ridge Land Conservancy since 2006, when he was hired as the land trust’s project manager. He became assistant director in 2011 and executive director in 2012. Dave is chairman of the City of Roanoke’s Mill Mountain Advisory Board and a member of the Roanoke Kiwanis Club.
Dave has a master’s degree in park and resource management from Slippery Rock University and a bachelor’s degree in geography from James Madison University. Prior to coming to the land trust, he was employed with the Wicomico County Department of Recreation, Parks and Tourism in Salisbury, MD and as a district executive with the East Carolina Council of the Boy Scouts of America in Kinston, NC. He, his wife and two sons live in southwest Roanoke
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The Pillars for Success
Strategy: Leadership without a strategic framework for an organization will compromise the results, overwork the leadership and teams, and waste time and money. A strategy is a Solution Map defining where the organization wants to be and how to get there. Here are the key elements:
Skills: Leadership, communications, and financial results are all grounded in effective relationships. Creating a culture of high performance starts with the first person (the leader) and is developed with intentionality with each addition to the board, the staff, the committees, the advisors, and the community advocates. Here’s the sequence:
Team: Teams are essential to the work of any organization. Moving from traditional thinking to a culture of servant leaders will impact the results of the organization. Build the principles for the culture and the skills to lead the teams before inviting the first team member to join.
Finance: Create an operational budget in which each line item connects to a milestone in the strategy. Also, create a start-up budget from concept to launch. The missing element is the cash flow projection. Make notes on how to create each of these
Support: The best leaders, like the top sports figures, always have a coach. The leader’s job is to define and lead the work. Over 90% of the skills and systems are hidden from visionary leaders, especially start-up leaders and early stage organization leaders, however this need never ends. Always having an experienced coach is the essential step for accountability, sequence, skills, discernment, clarity, and referrals.
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Leadership Book Quotes
Quotes and Notes from Hugh’s book list.
Today’s notes are on “As a Man Thinketh”by James Allen
One of the three books Jim Rohn said everybody should have is, “As a Man Thinketh” along with “Think and Grow Rich” and the Bible. Each of these books is full of wisdom of the ages and is timeless.
This little book is a short read. Each time I re-read it, I see different things and the things I saw before mean something different. It’s work reviewing monthly.
Even though the book is short, it’s full of profound ideas. The quotes below are some of the passages I have marked.
Quotes:
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state...Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.
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Many good thoughts in each of these. I will be mentioning all of these in future sessions.
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Balance…or Not!
I’m writing a new book. I’m thinking of calling it Adrenaline as a Way of Life. Or maybe I’ll try Time: There Will Never be Enough of It, So Squander What You’ve Got. Here’s a sneak peak at my chapter outline.
Chapter One: E-mergency
Answer all emails at once. Do not delay. Stop whatever you are doing and answer that baby.
Chapter Two: Adrenaline is My Motivator
Save tasks that are “due today” until the last hour, better yet, the last half hour of your workday so you will have the added energy boost of adrenaline to help you complete your tasks.
Chapter Three: Be a Hog
Hog the copier. Put off using office machines until the last possible minute, never mind if your colleagues need them.
Chapter Four: Under-prepare for Meetings/Rehearsals
That way you’ll find out what you’re really made of. Can you fly by the seat of your pants? Are you great at improvisation? Can you fake it in front of a group?
Chapter Five: Don’t Bother Planning Ahead, Wait Until the Last Minute
Careful planning is over rated! Panic provides lots of energy for a task. It’s contagious too, so if you can get other people panicked about a mutual project, just think of all the energy!
Chapter Six: Don’t organize your stuff.
That last minute search for materials provides a great panic push just when you need an extra shot of adrenaline.
Chapter Seven: Run
Don’t walk, run. Run to the workroom, to the bathroom, to your car. Run yellow lights. Heck, run red ones. That gets everyone excited!
Chapter Eight: Do One More Thing
Do one more thing before you leave. That will insure being late.
Chapter Nine: Shallow Breathing
Be sure to keep your breath short and rapid. Mimic panic in your breathing at all times. Remember, you don’t have time to take a deep breath.
Chapter Ten: Run Late
Show up at the last minute, or better yet, arrive late. Increase every one’s anxiety level!
Chapter Eleven: Yell
Yell at everyone when you are running late. If there is no one there, yell at the empty house. Yell at other cars, yell under your breath or right out loud at anyone or anything that gets in your way.
Chapter Twelve: Fast
Eat in the car. Even better, don’t eat at all. Being hungry increases your discomfort level and decreases your functioning level which will force your adrenaline to kick in and do it’s magic. When you do eat, gorge on foods that are bad for you.
Chapter Thirteen: Blame
Blame other people, blame your life situation, blame the traffic, blame the stoplights, blame your mother. Blame anything or anyone you can think of for anything and everything.
Chapter Fourteen: Calendar, Schmalandar
Don’t bother double-checking your calendar for appointments. Better yet, don’t write them down in the first place. If they really need you, they’ll call you.
I wrote this as a joke in a particularly busy season in my life and shared it at a staff meeting as a way of apologizing to my colleagues for my hyper-anxious state of being at work. I wish I could say those things are exaggerations, but they are based on the truth of how out of balance my life was at that time.
This winter, as I enter a very busy season once again, I’m attempting to do things differently. Like taking time daily for prayer, exercise, good nutrition, and Sabbath rest. As an experiment, I’m going to take one workday a month out of the office to be still and pray. It’s already making me nervous but I’m determined to do it to break the habits I wrote about in my “book”.
As I attempt to regain balance in my work schedule, I hope you’ll be encouraged to do the same. May God bless us on our journey
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Balance: Getting and Staying Centered
In this episode, I’m starting to focus on my “Four Leadership Principles”: Foundations, Relationships, Systems, and Balance. Today we focus on balance. Even though it’s the fourth principle, it’s the one that makes the others work. If we can’t manage our use of time, the musical version of this principle is “Value the Rests.” In music the rests have a distinctive purpose and are not just the absence of sound. They are punctuation. They are a regrouping of energy. They are times used to clarify and cleanse the auditory palate.
Balance has several dimensions:
You may be able to think of other ways balance is important to you and how to define that dimension.
There’s also the internal and external dimension to notice and regulate:
Internal
External
When planning for the enterprise you lead, be sure to plan for your life as well. Then integrate the two plans. Balance doesn’t mean that everything is equal. Balance means that we highlight what’s more important and place it in perspective with everything else. Many times we need to consider letting go of something in order or achieve what’s most important to us.
Being centered in this sense is being grounded in solid principles.
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The definitive leader is a transformational leader. Transformational leadership was birthed from educational systems and the military. The writings of BM Bass and JM Burns are cited in many, if not most, articles on transformational leadership. In the best sense, transformational leaders equip and create community. This community serves the articulated vision by building on the trust created through the integrity of leadership.
Transformational leaders are not intimidated by teams, committees, or boards. Conversely, they lead those groups to fulfilling participation with mutual accountability. Empowering groups to find their creative balance is a model for transformational leadership, not a weakness as many might think. The model requires that a leader think thoroughly through each process. Process builds trust. Process creates community. Process itself is a unifying, cooperative force.
Here are the traits of a Transformational Leader:
The transformational leader:
Here is an excerpt from my first book on transformational leadership:
Examine the word `transform`. It does not merely mean change - or we would use that word. It is a verb with an expanded vision and is much more transcendent. It implies a deeper, more fundamental alteration of our very form. To transform. The continuing process of transformation begins with the moment of inspiration and continues in us through times of action, rest and reflection. The magic of transformation is absolutely necessary in the world of music. Transformation occurs not only by chance, but also by direct intention - not only from the leader, but from the participants as well. The results are cumulative. Once the sense of ensemble is achieved and experienced firsthand, it can be believed.
So, why are there not more leaders committed to building the sense of ensemble in all that they undertake? Maybe it’s an educational issue for those whom we lead. Maybe it’s a lack of understanding that the concept of ensemble is transferable from musical groups to other groups. Why is that concept so foreign to people? Why does it seem unobtainable? Keep the momentum
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