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In this issue...
Colin Powell | Marcus Buckingham | Featured Satellite
LWYA Snapshots | Advanced Copy | VIP Pass |
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MARCUS BUCKINGHAM AND KIRK FRANKLIN
ADDED TO THE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT LINEUP
Providing you with a "can't miss" Summit experience is our top priority here at the Willow Creek Association right now, and recent additions to the faculty are a part of those efforts. Marcus Buckingham, a best-selling author and authority on leading and managing practices, has agreed to present his latest findings, documented in Go Put Your Strengths to Work, on Thursday afternoon. Kirk Franklin, an award-winning, gospel music artist, will perform on Saturday morning. The Summit programming team is creating, rehearsing, and preparing meaningful worship and creative communication to help your team process learnings, build relationships, and raise each attendee's leadership to a higher level.
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THE ESSENCE OF ALL LEADERSHIP
General Colin Powell |
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"I trust you. I'm with you. I'll follow you anywhere." General Colin Powell says it's only in hearing words like these that a leader's effectiveness gets authenticated. "The essence of all leadership, of all interpersonal activity," he contends, "is trust." A C-average kid from the Bronx, Powell was aimless much of his adolescence. That is, until he happened upon his school's military training program, which afforded him a rock-solid foundation for leadership. The next five decades saw the young African American reach unprecedented levels of achievement: Army General, National Security Advisor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Secretary of State. In this year's Summit session, Leading at the Highest Level, General Powell reflects on 15 tenets—including the power of trust—that catalyzed his meteoric rise.
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STRENGTHS NOT WEAKNESSES
Marcus Buckingham |
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On the job, most people operate at less than their full potential. Significantly less, suggests Marcus Buckingham, who cites research data that indicates that only 17 percent of the workforce believes they are using all of their strengths at work. Whether that work occurs in the business, education, or religious sectors, employees can achieve maximum success by emphasizing their strengths rather than their weaknesses. In his Summit session, Go Put Your Strengths to Work, Buckingham will examine the impact this radical approach has on leadership. He'll help leaders learn to identify, reinforce, and work within their strengths, and then explore ways to pass that understanding along to their teams.
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Featured Satellite Site
Who is Your Neighbor? - by Dean G. Curry, Senior Pastor, Life Center
Great things happen when you listen.
As a young pastor, I am calling Life Center to a vibrant faith based on the teachings of Jesus. The Summit has repeatedly been the spark for new ideas and motivation that have given us the focus to reach our community. Two years ago I had been challenged to look at the AIDS crisis in a deeper way, so I took a group of influential church leaders to Lesotho, Africa to see the problem first hand.
At last year's Summit, I was inspired to found "The Global Neighbor Project", a public/private partnership between local churches, city government, and World Vision to help make a difference in the fight against AIDS.
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"Lead Where You Are" Snapshots
We’re telling stories of leaders like you; people driven to take action and lead where they are. Click on the videos to learn these stories then dig deeper and read more on our Web site. Stay tuned as every two weeks we release new snapshots.
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Advanced Copy
Go Put Your Strengths to Work by Marcus Buckingham |
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Marcus Buckingham's latest release, this book aims to increase your ability to utilize your strengths in the workplace through a six-step, six-week experience that reveals the hidden dimensions of your abilities. With structured exercises that will become part of your regular workweek and proven tactics from people who have successfully applied the book's lessons, Go Put Your Strengths to Work will arm you with a radically different approach to your work life. As part of the book's program, readers take the online Strengths Engagement Track, a focused and powerful gauge that has proven to be the best way to measure the level of engagement of you or your team's strengths.
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VIP Pass
Words that Matter by Ashley Wiersma, Summit Interview Producer
If a young leader asked you for your philosophy on one of leadership's pressing challenges—say, hiring or firing, allocating resources or getting the most out of a new team—how would you respond?
Suppose this young leader was in a bit of a hurry and needed your thoughts on the matter in ten seconds or less. Then what would you say? If you had to net it out for a promising young gun with stars in his or her eyes, I wonder if you could whittle down the sum total of your leadership experience into a handful of succinct expressions that have guided your actions, steered your priorities, and influenced your decisions along the way. It is a rare leader who not only leads well, but who also reflects on his leadership long enough to frame up the concepts that have mattered most in portable, pithy phrases. A featured speaker at this year's The Leadership Summit, General Colin Powell is one such leader.
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