Is your heart craving authentic community? Have you been looking for a deeper understanding of the Christian faith and what it means to follow in the footsteps of Jesus? Thrive just might be the answer. Thrive is an emerging process for planting churches and missional communities that engages God's mission in the Way of Jesus. Based on the Jesus Model, Thrive provides a three year structured process for gathering together as a tribe for the sake of restoration and discovering what it means to be human. It's a simple means for participating in what God is already doing. The Jesus Model invites us to begin with a tribe of twelve intentional participants gathered together to create a space where intentional grace is true. It creates a context for creating a wholistic structure for restoration, spiritual formation, and growth. The Leadership Manual provides the basic understanding for creating and leading a tribe. The first part of this manual will explore the Thrive process, how to create a tribe, the specific protocols and support elements, and frequently asked questions. It also includes the six elements, or conversations that support the development of mission, the process and the tribe. These elements include: cultivate a tribe, engage the mission, follow the way, seek the kingdom, explore the story, and go and make disciples

Thrive provides leaders with a clear blueprint for building a high-performance culture. Drawing on extensive experience in change management, organizational development, and performance consulting, Andrew Freedman and Paul Elliott share their systematic approach, known as the Exemplary Performance System (EPS), in a way that enables leaders to take immediate action to shift workforce engagement and performance. Thrive teaches leaders how to create clarity and alignment around what high performance looks like and how to replicate it at scale, identify and eliminate barriers to performance excellence, effectively align individual and team priorities with those of the company, and build organizational systems and processes that accelerate business and financial results.

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A comprehensive book of “need-to-know” insights for busy leaders Being a great leader means getting the fundamentals right. It also means consistently doing the “little things” that make a positive difference in the lives of employees, customers, and other stakeholders. The Busy Leader’s Handbook: How to Lead People and Places That Thrive is a practical, easy-to-use book filled with gentle reminders of what we should be doing every day—especially when work is at its most intense. The Handbook is packed with proven best practices, tools, tips, and tactics for engaging employees, revitalizing cultures, delighting customers, and building high-performance companies. Short, succinct, and accessible, each chapter is “stand-alone,” offering helpful advice for meeting common business challenges. Plus, the strategies, approaches, and tactics are designed to be put into action immediately. Best-selling author, businessman, visionary, and entrepreneur Quint Studer draws on his 30-plus years of experience in helping organizations of all sizes and leaders at every level reach peak performance. Comprehensive in scope, his book overflows with insights and practical advice to help you make smart leadership decisions. For example: Why putting the right foundational structures in place early on creates clarity and heads off problems that cause businesses to struggle and fail The importance of followership: why being a good leader requires that you first be a good follower Why we tend to run from self-disruption and a sense of being unsettled (and how to learn to embrace them instead) Why leaders should seek consent, not consensus How to engage employees and create a positive workplace culture How to help employees find meaning and purpose in their work How to conduct difficult conversations and resolve conflicts—and why having these skills (or not) can make or break you as a leader Advice for attracting and hiring the best talent, retaining them over time, and dealing with the low performers who drive them away Why mentoring is so powerful and how to encourage it inside your company Tips and tactics for seeing the world through your customer’s eyes How to reduce customer anxiety (and encourage them to buy) with the right words at the right times for the right reasons The Busy Leader’s Handbook functions as a desk reference and pocket guide for anyone in a leadership position. It’s also a great training tool for onboarding new leaders. Whether you work for a start-up, a small or mid-size business, or a large corporation, this book will change how you think, inspire you to do your job better—and help your organization thrive.

Often managers are promoted to levels of leadership because of their technical skills. However, it takes more that your competence to lead. It requires you to communicate effectively, to be intentional with your relationships, to be agile in an ever changing climate while being committed to learning and growth. This guide is for emerging leaders who want to expand their level of influence with confidence, clarity and ease.

"We all recognize that change is a constant and that we should be more change agile if we want to be recognized as top talent, so I'm grateful to have Wendy's easy-to-follow roadmap on how to not only make change happen, but to thrive as a successful leader of change." --LAURIE COOKE, President & CEO, Healthcare Businesswomen's AssociationIf you are a leader of teams, you have a choice to make before any change engagement. Will you demonstrate strength, not just internally but outwardly, in order to get this type of initiative off the ground? Ownership of the responsibilities tied to such a holistic program is fundamental. Then in order to improve you must be willing to challenge your current circumstances. The very essence of change is that it can happen quickly, right before your eyes. Will you be ready for its significance? CHANGE AND THRIVE offers a breakthrough approach, the 5C's of Transition Leadership®, rooted in emotional intelligence, organizational psychology and retention methods, with support tools and checklists. This powerful guide will enable you to navigate any change initiative with the confidence and skills necessary for an experiential spectrum rather than a single event.

Practical, Proven Tools for Leading and Empowering High-Performing Agile Teams A leader is like a farmer, who doesn’t grow crops by pulling them but instead creates the perfect environment for the crops to grow and thrive. If you lead in organizations that have adopted agile methods, you know it’s crucial to create the right environment for your agile teams. Traditional tools such as Gantt charts, detailed plans, and internal KPIs aren’t adequate for complex and fast-changing markets, but merely trusting employees and teams to self-manage is insufficient as well. In Agile Leadership Toolkit, longtime agile leader Peter Koning provides a practical and invaluable steering wheel for agile leaders and their teams. Drawing on his extensive experience helping leaders drive more value from agile, Koning offers a comprehensive toolkit for continuously improving your environment, including structures, metrics, meeting techniques, and governance for creating thriving teams that build disruptive products and services. Koning thoughtfully explains how to lead agile teams at large scale and how team members fit into both the team and the wider organization. Architect environments that help teams learn, grow, and flourish for the long term Get timely feedback everyone can use to improve Co-create goals focused on the customer, not the internal organization Help teams brainstorm and visualize the value of their work to the customer Facilitate team ownership and accelerate team learning Support culture change, and design healthier team habits Make bigger changes faster This actionable guide is for leaders at all levels—whether you’re supervising your first agile team, responsible for multiple teams, or lead the entire company. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.