Presidential Leadership

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

This downloadable digest, complete with illustrations and charts, summarizes Patrick Lencioni’s bestseller, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.

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The History of the Bible College Movement

Bible colleges are institutions of postsecondary education that feature extensive study of the Bible accompanied by curricular and co-curricular emphasis upon personal devotion and consecrated service. The Bible college movement originated during the time of North America’s Third Great Awakening. Early Bible institutes emerged as both products of and catalysts for revival and missionary movements. The first such institutions include Nyack Missionary Training Institute, founded by A.B. Simpson in 1882, and Moody Bible Institute, founded by D.L. Moody in 1886. These earliest Bible institutes typify the character and origin of scores of other such institutions that proliferated across the North American continent during the latter two decades of the 19thcentury and the first three decades of the 20th century.
The Power of Passion in Higher Education

The Power of Passion in Higher Education. The History of Passion – According to Plato (427-348 BC) passion was bad because he believed that passion overruled reason, and was a kind of energy that could lead to unreasonable and irrational behavior.

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The Relational Health Audit

Developed over more than 15 years’ research and practice, the Relational Health Audit, is a one-of-its-kind psychometric scorecard that helps clients assess the quality and diagnose the state of relationships in the context of a group, an organisation, between organisations, or simply between individuals. Tested in a wide range of organisations and contexts, leading to improved relationships and performance, the RHA offers a comprehensive and effective mechanism for crystallising key relationship issues and enabling a structured discussion on how to improve working relationships in a variety of contexts.

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The Relational Manager Excerpts

Encounter can be symbolized by the image of an eye. Email, BlackBerries, texting and videoconferencing are all fabulous assets. But direct, face-to-face communication remains the ‘gold standard’ for relating. So how far, and how often, do you and your team engage in direct interaction? Important relationships, and important situations, stand in particular demand of directness – hence the finding by the Leadership Trust that more than half of managers find it more difficult to motivate and lead remote workers than other employees. A staff grievance can’t be solved by emailing from the other side of the world.

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The Relational Theological College Charter

Through study of the Bible, we understand God’s concern about relationships between human beings and himself, and between human beings themselves, to be of paramount importance – both in life generally and in theological education institutions specifically. Therefore, as theological educators we dedicate ourselves to moving in the following direction: Ten Commitments: 1. To have a statement of relational purpose (i.e. pursuit of both vertical and horizontal relationships) in our constitutional documents and/or mission statements.

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Value-Driven Leadership: How Your Personal Values can Empower Your Team

“Why did you do that?” “Why” is the philosophical question that exposes our values. Every leader is by default a philosopher.

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What in the World is Biblical Higher Education Anyway?

Unfortunately, for many people, the term Bible college evokes a dismissive response: inferior, irrelevant, even injurious, according to critics like Donald Miller and others. So how should we characterize ourselves and what do we callourselves? We’re presently working with David Kinnaman and his Barna Group team, investing in research designed to test perceptions and guide our self-portrayal. For the time being, however, our collective understanding of this ethos has become crystallized in terms of the following four concepts: biblical, transformational, experiential, and missional.

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