Leadership Excellence

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Leadership Excellence

• Leading an organization

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Leading Organizations

• The Church as an organization
• The Church as an organism

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The Church as an Organization

• A Biblical understanding of the church
• A cultural understanding of the church
• The church's external environment
• The church's internal environment
• Center for Christian Leadership
• Dallas Seminary
• www.dts.edu/ccl

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A Biblical understanding of the church

• The purpose of the church
• The organization of the church
• The practices of the church

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A cultural understanding of the church

• Visible artifacts
• Values
• View of reality

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The church's external environment

• The mission and vision of the church
• The strategy and goals to fulfill the vision
• The means used to reach the goals
• How to measure success
• How to make corrections

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The church's internal environment

• Speaking the same language
• The price of belonging
• Gaining power and status
• Acceptable expressions of intimacy, friendship
  and love
• Standards of conduct
• Rules of engagement
• Inside stories

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The Church as an organism
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Transformational Leadership

• Inspiring a shared vision
• Challenging the process
• Enabling others to act
• Modeling the way
• Encouraging the heart