Empowering Leadership: How a Leadership Development Culture Builds Better Leaders Faster

Michael, Fletcher

Thomas Nelson

Our quality of life depends on the quality of our relationships. We all hunger for harmony with our spouses, parents, children, coworkers, and friends--but these relationships often puzzle us. Whether you want to nurture your current relationships, develop new ones, or repair those that have been damaged, the seven practical keys to Building Successful Relationships can help you win the hearts of those you love. MICHAEL FLETCHER has served Manna Church as Senior Pastor for over 30 years, guiding the church's growth from 350 members in 1985 to 8,600 members in 2016. Coupling sound biblical teaching with relevant, practical applications and cutting edge outreach, Michael and the pastoral staff have worked to create a culture at Manna that equips God's people to not only change their world, but to plant churches with the same world-changing vision. To date, Michael and the Manna family have helped to plant over 70 churches worldwide. he and his wife Laura have been married since 1979 and live in Fayetteville, NC with two of their eight children. In their spare time, both enjoy competing in endurance sports, with three Ironman finishes (Michael) and a 50- and a 75-mile Ultra Marathon finish (Laura) to their credit.

Building Successful Relatioonships: 7 Keys to Winning & Keeping the Hearts of Others

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Manna Imprint

7 Keys to Winning and Keeping the Hearts of Others

Building Successful Relationships

Manna Church

A major problem in the local church today is lack of leadership. Simply put, we have more needs than we have leaders to meet those needs. So, how do we train better leaders faster?The truth is, very few churches really have a well-thought-out leadership development plan. Growth requires continually adding healthy new leaders, who carry the church culture forward and embody its core values. Everyone knows it, but how do we achieve it?In Empowering Leadership author and leadership consultant Michael Fletcher says leaders like this can't simply be bought, nor can they be hired from someone else's leadership assembly line. Developing leaders at every level, to create an environment that attracts potential leaders, and to build better leaders faster, an organization needs more than a pipeline. It needs a culture that develops leaders organically.Finding the right kind of leaders to guide your church on a path of continual growth comes out of keeping the right focus, and that focus is not just on the leaders. In fact, as Fletcher says,It isn't about the leader. It never was about the leader. It will never be about the leader. It will always and only be about Jesus and his people.It's about the people. True leadership development includes the often messy, but necessary, interaction of life upon life. So hiring pastors and key staff roles from within the church is the very best policy—people who "breathe" the culture of the church and who have helped create the culture you want to maintain.If your church or organization needs a good leadership development structure, then you're holding the right book. Empowering Leadership details Michael's greatest insights on how to build better leaders faster by creating a leadership development culture in your church or organization—naturally, organically, continually.Empower your church or organization through great leadership. This book will show you how!

Empowering Leadership

Thomas Nelson on Brilliance Audio

In Vulture, the ruinous city that remains after the disastrous Water Wars, anarchy rules. Graffiti gangs have become the bleak norm, each tribe denoted by unique colors and values. Separated as toddlers, siblings Finch and Rigby have grown up unwittingly pitted against one another within the lethally competitive world of Vulture. Rigby comes of age among the Regals, Vulture's cruelest gang, headed by the vicious warlord Richard while Finch has successfully remained independent of the gangs. However, circumstances bring him closer to Vulture's horrors than ever before. Can they make it to freedom together?

Vulture

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Queer Space

Sidewalk Dance

From the author of Glass Bottle Season comes a gritty new coming-of-age novel that examines what happens when one man's desperate journey to become a New York Writer leaves him more "tortured" than "artist." &nbsp; Sidewalk Dance&nbsp;is a portrait of the artist as a deluded self-saboteur. Haunted by his&nbsp;brother's tragic death in the War in Afghanistan and unable to process this trauma,&nbsp;Fisher shuns his elitist pedigree by abruptly quitting Yale Law School, changing his&nbsp;name to Fish, and moving to New York City. Once there, he sets about reinventing&nbsp;himself as a doomed playwright. Unfortunately for Fish, he is more of an idealist&nbsp;than a talent; a dreamer more than a doer. His delusions of grandeur quickly lead&nbsp;him into an abyss of self-doubt, addiction, identity crisis, and isolation. The pregnancy of his would-be muse, Madame Meticulous, the debaucherous&nbsp;tendencies of his alter ego, Partiboy, and the impending destruction of the Hell's&nbsp;Kitchen art gallery where he works combine to complicate Fish's pursuit of literary&nbsp;legacy. His central delusion is that by cloaking himself in the trappings and lifestyle of the tortured artist (hurling his iPhone off the Brooklyn Bridge, smoking&nbsp;hand-rolled cigarettes, growing out his hair, drunkenly clobbering a typewriter late&nbsp;at night), he will somehow become one. As paternity, unemployment, creative&nbsp;sterility, and romantic abandonment loom, Fish clings to a misguided hope that the&nbsp;staging of his play will make all well again.

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Keylight Books

Summertime on Rhode Island's luxurious Aquidneck Island. A middle-class Cuban American--freshly graduated from college--reckons with his fragile standing among the wealthy community in which he was raised, from which he might be cast out before the summer ends. Raymond Wilson-Domingo has never felt entirely comfortable among the elitist crowd of Newport's old-money aristocracy--partly because he's Cuban, partly because of his modest upbringing in the city's undesirable Fifth Ward neighborhood. But this summer, Ray's job at a boutique wine shop, a lobster theft, a misguided plan to become a lawyer, an exclusive beach club, an ill-timed car crash, the Moon View mansion's mysterious and controversial new resident, and a doomed romance with the doyenne of Newport--not to mention the impending Campbell-Doheny wedding and all of the money, gossip, and drama which surrounds it--will collide, casting the differences between Ray and his peers in high relief. Ray would do anything to cement his place among New England's most elite social circles, but will it ever be enough?

Glass Bottle Season

United States

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Empowering Leadership: How a Leadership Development Culture Builds Better Leaders Faster

Building Successful Relatioonships: 7 Keys to Winning & Keeping the Hearts of Others

Building Successful Relationships

Empowering Leadership

Vulture

Sidewalk Dance

Sidewalk Dance

Glass Bottle Season