Tips for accessing BOOKS on Ministry: Many of the titles included on these pages are books found in Luther Seminary Library and only available to seminary students. However, you may be able to borrow these same titles from your local public library. Make note of the title, author and ISBN of the desired book and ask your local library to request the book by "Interlibrary Loan" (ILL). Otherwise, of course, you may choose to buy certain titles from your favorite bookstore or online book source.
Beyond the Team
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An internationally renowned author offers an overview of how people and jobs can best be connected in a new era. "Beyond the Team" draws on Meredith Belbin's extensive work with organizations worldwide to give further insights into the workings of teams and groups. The modern job needs to be actively interpreted and constantly revised in terms of the balance between a team role, a work role and a professional role. The increasingly complex demands of modern jobs can be aided by a colour system as tested in international trials. A colour based top down, bottom up form of communication creates sensitive feedback with a special value where members of a workforce do not share common language. The socially complex nature of communication about work in a new era offers parallels with the intricacies of the social insect world. Information technology is extending human networking with the potential of creating a form of organization closer to what can be achieved in superorganisms. "Beyond the Team" shows how eventually, the mature team can learn to distribute work between its own members by giving a comprehensive understanding of how to manage both team roles and work roles. Author has advised the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the US Department of Labor, the Commission of the EEC, amongst many others Video Arts third Belbin film "Does the Team Work?" has recently been released and connects with this title.
Leading from the Second Chair : serving your church, fulfilling your role, and realizing your dreams
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They say it's lonely at the top. And it can be even lonelier when you are almost at the top. Church leaders who hold second-chair positions are under tremendous pressure. They are expected to do their jobs and provide leadership but to defer to the top leader too. It's a demanding balancing act. How can they lead effectively while serving under someone else's leadership? Leading from the Second Chairoffers an invaluable resource to leaders who serve in second- (and third- and fourth-) chair roles, enabling them to become more productive, proactive, and fulfilled. The book reveals the paradoxes of second chair leadership. These leaders must be subordinate to the top leader yet lead in their own right. They should be deep in their expertise but wide in perspective. And they must be content in their jobs yet remain enthusiastic about their dreams for the future. Mike Bonem and Roger Patterson share their own and others' experiences of failure and success in this vital role. They offer support and practical advice for reshaping the way second-chair leaders can serve well and improve the overall performance of their church or organization. Leading from the Second Chairequips readers with the positive attitudes, skills, and strategies needed to become powerful leaders who will survive and thrive in God's service.
Teamwork Cross-Culturally: Christ-centered solutions for leading multinational teams
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Following Sherwood Lingenfelter's successful books on ministering, teaching, and leading cross-culturally (with combined sales of over 200,000 copies), Teamwork Cross-Culturally casts a vision for how teams made up of diverse peoples can serve in unity as the body of Christ despite the complicated problems that arise. The book equips leaders to respond to divisive issues so that multinational mission teams can do the work of ministry in ways that honor God. Real-life examples of teamwork challenges from around the world demonstrate that "in Christ" responses are achievable.
Leadership trapeze : strategies for leadership in team-based organizations
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In these times, when the biggest challenge many managers face is providing innovative guidance to empowered and self-directed teams, the key to success is knowing when to let go of old leadership practices - and when to adopt new ones. In Leadership Trapeze, the authors of such best-selling books as Empowered Teams and Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment offer a down-to-earth guide for anyone negotiating the sometimes tricky transition to teams.Designed for managers responsible for guiding teams and executives struggling to facilitate transition, Leadership Trapeze provides a clear map of how to start, support, and sustain teams. It shows how organizations can foster team development at every stage by providing the necessary training and resources for leaders.Leadership Trapeze also offers recommendations for leaders on interacting with teams at each stage. Using case studies and their own research, the authors demonstrate how the demand for skilled leadership actually increases rather than decreases in team-based organizations. They show leaders how to work with teams to develop role clarity, helping teams stay focused on their goals, and giving the right feedback at the right time to foster team growth and independence.Interviews with working managers illustrate the trials and triumphs of those who have made the transition to teams - and highlight the valuable new management skills that spell success in a team-based organization.In addition, the book includes a wide array of interactive tools - such as training plans, self-assessment checklists for team leaders, and discussion guides - crafted to help managers and team members identify key strengths, target problem areas, evaluate progress, and hone vital team and leadership skills.
Teams and Their Leaders : a communication network perspective
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This book provides the first truly comprehensive treatment of three topics that have traditionally been treated separately: teamwork, leadership, and communication. Teamwork has become central to the operation of the modern organization. People from diverse backgrounds culturally, professionally, and demographically must work together to develop the well-rounded decision making needed for organizations to survive in our modern economy. Leadership, and relatedly management, have more traditionally been the focus of organizational operations. While it is easy to rule by dicta, it is much more difficult to establish a framework in which true teamwork is possible. Teamwork is a very fragile thing. The minute managers start becoming too directive a slippery slope is started in which one's followers, perhaps better cast as team members, constantly look to them for direction and approval rather than acting on their own best instincts. Communication plays a central role in resolving these tensions. Messaging is central to traditional management functions, while providing a communication network structure that enables action is a more subtle, but longer lasting function of leaders. All three processes, teaming, leading, and communicating, must act in concert for the many benefits of teamwork to be realized.
Thinking Teams / Thinking Clients : knowledge-based teamwork
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A universal method of working with teams that focuses on working with knowledge and is applicable to a variety of disciplines. Drawing on Foucaultian theories of discourse, Thinking Teams / Thinking Clients presents a postmodern look at team work that stresses working with professional knowledge in an organized context.
Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach : the power of dialogue in educating adults
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"Vella writes persuasively about the power of listening as the predominant tool for effective teaching.... This is a book that broadens cultural horizons, tears down superficial boundaries, and presents excellent practical ideas for all adult educators." --NACADA Journal "Anyone who wants to help make the world a better place should read this book. Jane Vella is an educator par excellence. But the message of this book is not for academics; it is for the people who will help things change on the ground. This book is about reality--real people, real situations, and what I call real development." --James P. Grant, executive director, UNICEF In a distinctly personal and highly entertaining style, Jane Vella reveals twelve basic principles of adult learning to offer a practical, proven, universally applicable approach to adult education.
Virtual Teams That Work: creating conditions for virtual team effectiveness
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Virtual Teams That Work offers a much-needed, comprehensive guidebook for business leaders and managers who want to create the organizational conditions that will help virtual teams thrive. Each chapter in this important book focuses on best practices and includes case studies and illustrative examples from a wide variety of companies, including British Petroleum, Lucent Technologies, Ramtech, SoftCo, and Whirlpool Corporation. These real-life examples demonstrate how the principles identified in the book play out within virtual teams. Virtual Teams That Work shows how organizations can put in place the structure to help team members who speak different languages and have different cultural values develop effective ways of communicating when there is little opportunity for the members to meet face-to-face. The authors also reveal how organizations can implement performance management and reward systems that will motivate team members to cooperate across multiple boundaries. And they offer the information to determine which technologies best fit a variety of virtual-team tasks and the level of information technology support needed.
Virtual Teams: projects, protocols and processes
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Thirteen chapters by scholars and practitioners of management, information technology, and related fields offer advice concerning the management of virtual team projects. Case studies provide lessons on the place of virtual teams within organizations, leadership, trust- building, the best use of tec
Theological Foundations for Colloborative Ministry
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This book examines the theological foundations of a collaborative approach to Christian ministry. The discovery that Christians are members 'one of another' creates energy and joy in ministry and empowers the Church in an age of mission. Outlining the present challenges for ministry, Stephen Pickard offers an historical perspective on ministry over the last century; develops a theory of collaborative ministry based on a dialogue between theology and science; and explores some implications of collaborative ministry for lay and ordained people of the Church. This book breaks new ground in its theory of collaborative ministry through a dialogue with the sciences of emergence. It also offers fresh insights on important texts in ministry; relationships between Christology, Pneumatology and ministry; a relational ontology of ministry; episcopacy, ecumenism, ordination vows and wisdom for team ministry.
5 Characteristics of Effective Ministry Teams (2023), from the Lewis Center for Church Leadership
A Biblical and Theological Basis for Collaborative Ministry and Leadership, by Andrew Dawswell, in Anvil, vol.21
Principles of Teamwork in Christian Ministry--brief article from Baylor University Business Dept.
Promoting Partnership and Teamwork in Small-Group Ministry--practical article from SmallGroups.Com
Church and Society Team Leader Job Description from the United Methodist Church
How to Run a Great Staff Meeting, CT magazine article by John Sommerville
Embody : five keys to leading with integrity
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"Many pastors and other leaders live in a state of dis-integration. Their leadership actions and behaviors seem detached from their own beliefs. They feel trapped in systems and institutions where decisions appear to be disconnected from the scripture they read and the theology they profess. Maybe you are aware of this disconnect in your own leadership, but you have not been able to name it or you are not sure what to do about it. You want to be what you believe and embody your Christian beliefs in every decision, every act of ministry leadership. This book shows you how. Karoline Lewis teaches how embodying Paraclete leadership can be the first step toward leading with integrity. Five key principles emerge and are exemplified by five women characters in the Gospel of John. These women demonstrate the Paraclete principles in action and show us what embodied leadership looks like. Embody is a practical book, with questions and activities at the end of each chapter to help you process the teaching. It is studded with poetry and snippets of wisdom, beautiful as well as helpful."--Back cover.
Rivals or a Team?: clergy-musician relationships in the twenty-first century
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Collaboration between clergy and musicians is vital to the ministry of the Christian church. This book explores the importance of teamwork, identifying ways in which musicians and clergy can exercise their separate roles effectively, and suggesting strategies for building supportive relationships. Including heart-felt testimonies from musicians and clergy, Guenther takes a clear-eyed look at conflict, reasons musicians leave a church, and approaches for transition when the situation just does not work any longer. This distinguished church musician and seminary professor encourages musicians and clergy to work together with mutuality and collegiality in order to fulfill the promise of their ministry.
Body Building : creating a ministry team through spiritual gifts
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God gave Moses the vision to build a tabernacle, but Moses did not build it by himself. Church leaders engage in a similar endeavor. They a) see what is inside other potential leaders, b) use leadership, discernment, and management skills to bring the potential out, and c) avoid standing in front of the future leaders once that skill becomes obvious. Body Building is about creating a networked ministry team from within a congregation by identifying and matching spiritual gifts with the core purposes of the church. Brian Kelley Bauknight describes the processes for accomplishing this, processes which he has tested in his own congregation. In an era when our institutions and businesses are finding new ways to be in partnership with one another, Body Building shows how a church can accomplish its mission without adding to the financial overhead with full-time, salaried ministers who are hired "to do the ministry".
Teaching Alone, Teaching Together : transforming the structure of teams for teaching
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"There are many excellent books on college and university teaching, but Teaching Alone, Teaching Together makes a uniquely valuable contribution. Jim Bess has produced a scholarly, intriguing, revolutionary book that could, if implemented, transform higher education in the twenty-first century. It should be read by policy makers and administrators as well as by university teachers." --W.J. McKeachie, professor of psychology, University of Michigan The notion that college teachers are only lecturers or discussion leaders has become greatly outdated in higher education. Today, the instructional process is much more complex and demanding--requiring a range of expertise that cannot be expected from any single individual. In this provocative book, James L. Bess and a select group of scholars propose a radical rethinking of teaching and academic work. They suggest a unique team-based academic organization that matches the different talents of faculty members with the distinct, differentiated tasks of teaching. By working together and supporting each other, faculty members can not only build on their collective strengths and knowledge but also improve their practice in such critical areas as: * Designing and preparing courses * Lecturing * Facilitating group work * Advising students * Advising and mentoring colleagues * Assessing learning outcomes * Researching new techniques and technologies * Linking academic and nonacademic pursuits More important, this new model of collaborative instruction will inspire a fresh, enhanced commitment to teaching--one that moves beyond the current practice of isolated classroom teaching. Teaching Alone, Teaching Together is a scholarly, groundbreaking volume that will surely inspire debate and discussion among faculty members, department chairs, and academic administrators.