Coach life purpose discovery with this practical, in-depth look at the tools and techniques of Christian life coaching. This sequel to the acclaimed book "Leadership Coaching" is filled with sample coaching dialogs, real-life examples, practical models, and over 60 formal destiny discovery exercises, all from a master coach trainer. By incorporating calling ("an external commission from God for others")into the heart of the life coaching process, Tony has crafted a biblical approach to destiny that encompasses all of life--including suffering and servanthood as well as passion and gifting---that moves destiny discovery from getting what I want in life toward creating a Kingdom legacy. Along the way, you'll learn tools for finding one's innate Design, unearthing Passions, identifying Life Messages, crafting convergent Roles, and much more. The companion volume, "A Leader's Life Purpose Workbook," provides all 60 discovery exercises in a handy action step format for your clients.
A well-known author in the field of counseling takes successful principles of coaching and gives them a God-centered application. Broader in scope than either mentoring or discipline, Christian coaching helps people find God's vision or their lives and learn to live accordingly.
Enhance and strengthen your corporate leadership skills with this guide to spirituality in business from a bestselling Christian consultant and speaker. Bestselling author Laurie Beth Jones brings you the ultimate guide to transforming your team and sparking inspiration in your business. In Jesus, CEO, Jones compares Jesus to a CEO who turned a disorganized "staff" of twelve into a thriving, long-lasting enterprise.With the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Jesus, CEO, Jones revises and updates her original modernized guidance, ensuring that everyone can continue to apply the ancient wisdom pulled straight from the Bible. Filled with fresh, practical, and profound advice, Jesus, CEO helps managers motivate their teams and themselves. Jones divides this advice into three sections: strength of self-mastery, strength of actions, and strength of relationships. By teaching readers how to reinvent all aspects of their business according to the ultimate CEO, Jesus, CEO becomes the handbook you need for corporate success.
This practical guide to life purpose offers over 60 self-discovery tools for understanding your natural design, your revealed call and how your whole life prepares you for what God made you to be. Written by a top Christian life coach, it's an in-depth exploration of four key destiny themes: Design: Looking inward to see what God has planted within Calling: Looking outward to an external commission from God for others Preparation: Looking backward at the destiny clues in your life story Passion: Looking forward at the drives that propel you onward to your destiny Going far beyond success and significance, this book examines biblical concepts like the connection between suffering and purpose, living toward heaven, and finding your life message (a unique incarnation of Christ to the world) as well as your life task. With specialized tools like influence styles and convergent roles designed for leaders, this book is a great resource for finding and following your calling.
In order to help pastors and other Christian leaders to lovingly lead God’s flock to Jesus Christ and into God’s mission, Scott Thomas and Tom Wood clarify a process of coaching and shepherding that is rooted in the patterns of the Good Shepherd himself, a process in which leaders stir up the gifts, passion, and calling upon others’ lives. This book addresses the needs of the leader, his or her sinful tendencies, and church leadership issues. It directs the leader to the person and work of Jesus. It provides a system to intentionally shepherd leaders to glorify God in their personal, spiritual, and missional lives. Many ministry leaders serving in churches find themselves overwhelmed, disillusioned, and depressed by the enormous and challenging task of leading and ministering in a congregation. As a result, the ministry suffers, the leaders suffer, and the result is often an unhealthy church existent with little or no Gospel influence. These leaders need someone to shepherd their soul so that they can lead others to the Chief Shepherd, Jesus Christ. We suggest that coaching for the church leader looks less like corporate consulting or humanistic psychology and more like biblical-shepherding. We suggest that every church leader needs a Gospel Coach to come alongside with words of truth, wisdom and experience to encourage, admonish, comfort and help—words drawn from Scripture and godly wisdom, grounded in the gracious saving work of Jesus Christ, and presented in the context of a trusting relationship. Gospel Coaching is an intentional relationship to skillfully care for others with four ancient shepherding principles: 1) Know the sheep, 2) Feed the sheep, 3) Lead the sheep, and 4) Protect the sheep. A Gospel Coach both inquires about the personal, spiritual, and missional aspects of a ministry leader’s life in a loving yet focused manner, and also probes the church leader for compulsive unbelief or selfish motivation, or disobedience and sin, and leads the ministry leader back to the Gospel, through belief, repentance and obedience. Churches that desire to be rich in a Gospel application toward their city, their relationships with one another, their communication and worship, as well as their service, will benefit to a greater degree by having their leaders being coached by a Gospel-centered leader.
Leadership Coaching is an essential tool for anyone who wants to learn to coach or improve their coaching skills. Written by a top Christian coach trainer, it is filled with real-life stories, practical tools and application exercises that bring coaching techniques to life. Part I is an in-depth look at how coaching fits with the purposes of God. Starting with key biblical concepts about how God builds leaders, this book goes beyond proof-texting to present an integrated, values-based paradigm for leadership coaching. Part II uses a hands-on, interactive approach to show you how to coach. Utilizing the seven key elements of effective coaching as a framework, each facet of the coaching relationship is explained in detail. Then follow-up Master Class sections help you internalize the key concepts and try them out in real life. Leadership coaching is a great introduction to a powerful way of helping others grow.
Miller and Hall center totally on the nature and ministry of Christian coaching. They provide an overview of the growth and development of coaching and its application to Christian ministry. They show core coaching skills, and essential and supporting coaching skills. The core skills of focused listening and asking powerful questions reappear throughout the book as the authors demonstrate in real life situations how to use them. A TCP Leadership Series title.
What is it that motivates you? What is your goal in this life? How are you coping and making sense of the trials and difficulties that you are facing today or will face in the furture? Are you searching for the truth or hiding from it. Kramer Soderberg - College basketball coach and first time author, allows you the reader to join him on his personal spiritual quest while coaching, motivating, and pushing you to grow in your own relationship with Christ and reap all the wonderful spiritual gifts that God and his Church are offering you. Most of us don't realize we are in the midst of a battle and have no idea what the end goal of this life actually is. Majority of us have been misled by the lies of our culture. And all of us have asked the question, "How am I going to deal with this?" or made the statement, "I'm just not motivated at the moment." As a Church, as Christians, and as followers of Jesus Christ we so often forget, as we all desperately search and scramble for what we want and need in this life, that all those desires we are chasing can be found in the same place and are given by the same person. "Fill Your Cup for Christ" takes you on the spiritual journey of an everyday sleepwalking cradle Catholic who was searching to get more out of his faith life. Kramer Soderberg--through stories, strategies, and some in your face coaching tactics--helps his readers grow in their relationship with Jesus, enhance their understanding of Catholic Church teaching, and ignite the desire to become the saint God is calling all of us all to be. Simple, genuine, and easy to read, "Fill Your Cup for Christ" is a life-changing book for Christians in all stages of life!
The Christian Athlete is a gospel-centered guide that assists athletes who identify as Christians and are seeking to understand how to practically apply their faith to their sport. Athletes desire—and deserve—a more substantive expression of the Christian faith in the context of sport, but they don’t know what it looks like or where to turn to learn more. Author Brian Smith shares his story as an athlete and coach, and his experience working with high-level athletes in the last decade to help readers better understand how to integrate faith and sport by: Assisting those who want a wide-angled understanding of how to live the Christian faith in the context of sports Walking through the many questions Christian athletes ask about winning, losing, injuries, practice, and everything in between Moving Christian athletes from simply having clichéd spiritual sayings decorating their bodies or t-shirts to actually living out their faith through all the opportunities their sport offers them The Christian Athlete will show readers how to live out a biblical perspective on athletics and urge them to engage in the gifts they are given to glorify God whether they are the team MVP or riding the bench.