The Unexpected and Utterly Ignored Most Important Aspect of Leadership with Tod Bolsinger (WEBINAR RECORDING)
3 webinar recordings. The biggest challenge facing church leadership is not the change going on around us, but the resistance to change amongst us (sabotage).
Description
"The capacity of a leader to be prepared for, to be aware of, and to learn how to skillfully deal with (sabotage) may be the most important aspect of leadership. It is literally the key to the kingdom.” Edwin Friedman. This three part workshop will identify, address, and teach you to prepare for this aspect of leadership that is almost entirely overlooked in Christian leadership. formation.
“Tod’s webinar was a great insight into an aspect of leadership I have faced almost every single day since becoming a Pastor, but never been able to name or navigate as well as I would have liked – sabotage. Tod’s practical teaching helped me to recognise it, but also to reframe it, and learn how to more appropriately respond. The quote from week one “Sabotage is not the bad things evil people do, it’s the human things anxious people do” immediately brought clarity to a number or circumstances I have faced in leadership past and present. Tod’s ongoing sessions on our own support networks and our own resilience building were first class. I immediately went out and bought all his books after the webinar and have seen immediate fruit in some of my more hostile relationships because of the perspective shift I gained from this webinar.”
Shanan Barnett,
Lead Pastor, Connect.
WATCH A SAMPLE FROM THE FIRST EPISODE
Session 1: Learning to Expect Sabotage: Identifying, naming and preparing for Sabotage.
Session 2: Facing the Mountain of Despair: How resilient leaders are formed when they are in the crucible of leadership.
Session 3: Hewing Hope from Despair: The Formational Process for becoming a Tempered Resilient leader.
Please note that in some episodes the Q&A has been removed from these recordings to protect the privacy of those who attended the live sessions.
Presenter
Tod Bolsinger, MDiv, PhD, the co-owner and principal of AE Sloan Leadership, Inc, an executive coaching and consulting firm that works with church, non-profit, and marketplace leaders in leading change.
He is also the Executive Director of the De Pree Center Church Leadership Institute, a Senior Fellow of the De Pree Center for Leadership, and Associate Professor of Leadership Formation at Fuller Theological Seminary, was the founder of the Fuller Leadership Platform, an innovative approach to online formation and leadership development and served as a Vice President of Fuller Seminary for six years. Prior to his educational career, he served as a pastor for 27 years.
Tod is the author of five books, including the Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year in pastoral leadership, Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory, Leadership for a Time of Pandemic: Practicing Resilience and most recently, Tempered Resilience: How Leaders are Formed in the Crucible of Change.
Tod is married to Beth, an executive coach, consultant and professional artist. They have two adult children, Brooks and Ali, and a son-in-law, Ben. An avid outdoor lover, if he hadn’t taken biology after lunch in high school, Tod would have been a National Park Ranger. When he retires, he is going to do hiking trail maintenance, trout rescue, and be a ski host who makes sure there are four people on every quad chair lift.
He can be reached at Bolsinger@fuller.edu
Host
Jonny Weir: MTh, MDiv, BTh. Jonny leads Carey's Ministry Training programme which seeks to integrate student’s theological learning with the practical skills, character and passion required in Pastoral Leadership.
Jonny brings 25 years of pastoral leadership to his role with experience as both a youth and senior pastor. He has completed his Masters of Theology and Masters of Divinity and is currently completing a Doctor of Ministry in Leading Change at Fuller Theological Seminary.
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