By: Gilberto Araujo

• Spiritual foundations for leadership - Transformational

– Biblical Concept of Leadership – Biblical calling to spiritual leadership– Examples of biblical leadership– Structures and spiritual leadership

• Servant Leader

– Biblical Concept of Servant Leader– Jesus’ Example– Book of Nehemiah

• Strategic thinking and leading

– Biblical indicators of where the church is supposed to be– Spirit of Prophecy counsel on a strong church– Assessing where we are– Tools to work with– Developing steps that will lead to the expressed goal of

the church– Strategic planning– Strategic analysis

• Leadership and Mission

– SDA missiology

• Leadership and Assessment

– Assessment theology– Importance.– Use and abuse– Emphasizing Quality

• Leadership and Assessment

– Goals and objectives– Importance– Use and abuse– Differences– Facilitating Effective Planning– Evaluating

• How to lead a group into “Group Visioning.”

– How to transfer a vision from your head to others and let others own it

– Group works– Casting a vision– Sharing a vision

• Communicating your vision and coordinating group thinking

– Win – win situation– Leaders need people to accomplish the goals– Leaders using and abusing people to reach goals– Caring for people– Caring for the task to be done– Balance

• Communication and Leadership

– How to communicate efficiently as leader– Communication among organizations, levels– Communication among leaders

• Communicating Effectively

- Responding mails and e-mails- Delays- Communication breakdown- Communication Methods.- Cross-cultural communication.- Communicating decisions

• Team work and team building

– Why you need the team– How team building develops– Elements that are necessary for team building– Not manipulation– Unswerving Commitment to Empowering People– Fostering Participation

• Delegating

– A biblical principles for leadership– Importance of delegating– Effective delegating– Delegation and authority to accomplish the task

• Chairing meetings

– Where do agenda comes from– How to process an agenda item– Preparing for meetings– Chairing meetings– Managing decision of the meeting– Facilitating discussions.– Parliamentary Procedure

• Implementing Decisions

– How– Who– When– How much

• Dressing as a leader

– Models of Good Dressing.– Psychology of Clothes Yes.– Yes, dressing makes a difference– Elements of good dressing– Dressing for seasons

• Decision Making in leading and leadership

– Leadership is about making decisions– How to make spiritual decisions– Nature of decisions– How to process decision making on very important

matters– Group Decisions

• Leadership and Ethic

– Ethic and culture– Ethic that help in leadership

• Leadership and Values

– Exercising Solid Integrity – How to be a leader with right values– Values that help in leadership– Values Classification and Values Hierarchy

• Managing Criticisms

– How to manage criticisms– How to welcome criticisms– How to differentiate a positive and negative

criticism – The Gift of Opposition

• A balance life – Holistic Leadership

– Spiritual life– Financial life– Family Life– Physical life– Social life– Emotional Life– Intelectual Life

• Managing difficult areas of life

– Money – Personal finances.– Women – Power– Managing Leadership and Authority– How to manage Conflict of interest

• Understanding Organization

– Purpose– Structure and Systems– Processes– People– Assessing organizational effectiveness.– How to strength the organization– The organization’s finances.– The organization Mission, vision,

values.

• Understanding Organization

– Managing Resources Responsibly – Budget– Reports

• The Leader

– A Philosophy of leadership– Characteristics of an Effective Leader– Styles of leaders– Motivation– The leader and the administrator.– The leader’s expectative– The leader’s main goal– Abundance Mentality

• The Leader

– Affirming Others– Coaching others– Mentoring others– Confronting others

• The Leader

– Accountability

• Time Management

– Prioritizing and planning your time– Eliminating Non-Priorities

• Crisis Management.

– Conflict resolution– Problem solving and decision making.

• How to introduce Changes

– Understand the change– How to avoid change resistance– The change cycle. – Courage to Challenge the Status Quo – Ability to challenge the Status Quo

• Leader keep growing

- Spiritual- Professional- Social-

• Leadership and Retirement

- Getting ready- Enjoying- Accepting

• Leader and Failure

- How to accept failure- How to learnt with failure- How to take advantage of failure

• How to relate with other leaders

– Leader x Officer– Relationship among 3 officers– Using and abusing privileges – David Syndrome