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SESSION #1
Tuesday, November 13
8:00 PM EDT

John SavageJohn S. Savage, D. Min. - author of "The Apathetic and Bored Church Member", "Listening and Caring Skills"

The Apathetic and Bored Church Member:

How to stop people from leaving your church or organization.




You will learn:

  • Background on why active committed members leave their congregations
  • The nature of emotional clusters that motivate the person to leave their theological roots
  • The predictable stages a person goes through and how to intervene in each step
  • Understanding the power of the theological shifts that people make when they feel they have “outgrown their congregation’s belief system”
  • What we mean by Apathy and Boredom.  The difference between these states and the difficulty of reigniting passion
  • How does a person move from deep commitment to the state of Apathy/Boredom?
  • What has to be done to stop the drop-out process and the skills needed to do it
  • How the drop-out process occurs in school dropouts, quitting your job and leaving a marriage, or leaving any bonded relationship

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SESSION #2

Tuesday, November 27
8:00 PM EDT

Hugh BallouHugh Ballou - Facilitator, Executive Coach, Business Strategist, and Author of  four books on transformational leadership.



Solving Conflict Before It Happens:
Turning Conflcit into Creative Vision






You will
learn:

  • How to create team guidelines
  • Ways to clarify expectations
  • Understanding that not agreeing is a tool to build consensus
  • Design techniques for creative brainstorming that builds community
  • Ways to focus the groups energy on the critical factors
  • How to design models for creative decision-making and problem solving

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SESSION #3
Tuesday, December 4
8:00 EST

Jim WadfordJim R. Wadford, D.Min., ACC Executive Coach, Organization Development Strategist, Professor, Trainer, and Coauthor of two books "Strategic Window or Opportunity: The Intentional Interim" and "Money: Is Not the Root of All Evil?"

A Coaching Model
for Business and Personal Transition



You will learn:
  • A new model for coaching others around their strengths
  • Ways to help the person being coached get unstuck
  • A clearer understanding of how the “Exceeding Stuckness” model moves the coaching session forward
  • How to balance relationships with tasks to get the most from your personal performance
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SESSION #4

Tuesday, December 18
8:00 EST  

John SavageJohn S. Savage, D. Min. - author of "The Apathetic and Bored Church Member", "Listening and Caring Skills"

Tools for Change and Transition:
Learn the key elements for making effective changes in an organization or in your own personal life.


You will learn:
  • Identify the three key stages that Transition goes through
  • How to prepare for a change before it hits you
  • Know the difference between change and transition
  • How to work with personal change and its effect on group change
  • Learn how to identify what to stop, continue, or add to your life
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SESSION #5

Tuesday, January 8
8:00 EST  

John Savage
John S. Savage, D. Min.
-
author of "The Apathetic and Bored Church Member", "Listening and Caring Skills"

Spiritual Intelligence





You will learn:
  •      What Spiritual  Intelligence is
  •     The seven types of Spiritual  Intelligence
  •     How to develop each of the  intelligences
  •     How to build a Spiritually  Intelligent congregation
  •     The difference between  a spiritual intelligent and a  spiritually stupid person
  •     How to develop a life time  spiritual goal and a well formed outcome
  •     Where to get further  training

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SESSION #6

Tuesday, January 22
8:00 EST  

John SavageDoug Lawrence - Presentation Coach, Consultant

The Ten Things You Want to Make Sure You Communicate:
Important Stuff You Want to Include in Every Conversation




At some level these things show up in every conversation:
 
  • Your point-of-view
    ...and how you arrived at it
  • Your values
    ...and on what bridges you would fight

  • Your desired outcome
    ...and what compromises you're willing to make

  • Your credibility on the subject
    ...and why and how you know what you know

  • Your willingness to listen
    ...and your genuine concern


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SESSION #7
Tuesday, February 5
8:00 PM EDT

John SavageJohn S. Savage, D. Min. - author of "The Apathetic and Bored Church Member", "Listening and Caring Skills"

Prayer and Meditation Skills for the Maturing Christian

The Training Outline

  • A Quiet environment
  • The Breath Prayer
  • God in my sight
  • God in my hearing
  • The Prayer of Silence
  • How God communicates to us
  • Prayer and the Scriptures
  • Meditation of three orientations of life
  • The Day-End Review:

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SESSION #8

Tuesday, February 12
8:00 PM EDT

Hugh BallouHugh Ballou - Facilitator, Executive Coach, Business Strategist, and Author of  four books on transformational leadership.



Setting and Achieving Powerful Goals





You will
learn:

    •    Why written goals are so critical
    •    How to implement SMART guidelines
    •    How to effectively set and share goals
    •    How to lead a comprehensive goals process
    •    How to design an  effective action plan

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SESSION #9

Tuesday, February 26
8:00 PM EDT

Suzanne GoebelSuzanne Goebel - Consultant, Trainer, Speaker, Business Process Analyst



Leading With Questions







You will
learn:

  • About the shift FROM Leading by Telling TO Leading by Asking
  • The Power of Powerful Questions
  • How Leadership Questions relate to Leadership Coaching
  • How To Listen to Answers Instead of Giving Answers
  • How to Form Powerful Questions--The Loop Method


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SESSION #10
Tuesday, March 11
8:00 PM EDT

John SavageJohn S. Savage, D. Min. - author of "The Apathetic and Bored Church Member", "Listening and Caring Skills"

The Leadership Style of Jesus




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SESSION #11

Tuesday, March 25
8:00 PM EDT

Esther BurroughsEsther Burroughs
Author, Trainer, Speaker

Creating a Legacy of Faith for Your Children





The psalmist says, He commanded our fathers, That they teach them to their children, That the generations to come might know even the children yet to be born. Ps 78:5-6

Leaving a legacy can be likened to passing the baton in a race. Each runners job is to successfully get the baton into the hand of the runner ahead of him/her in the race, for the race to be won.

As I understand the word of God, I am part of this eternal race and I must to be found faithful in passing on an eternal legacy or heritage to the generations coming behind me.
Leave a legacy of..

* Love for the word of God
* Encouragement
* Prayer
* Laughter
* Service
* Friendship
* Grace


SESSION #12
Tuesday, April 15
8:00 PM EDT

Karen StarkesKaren Y. Wilson-Starks, Ph.D. 
- President and CEO of Transleadership, Inc.

The Top Five Barriers to Organizational Change and How to Address Them



What the traning will cover

1.    Failure to provide enough information
2.    Failure to deal with emotions
3.    Waiting for everyone to get on board
4.    Delivering the false message/hope that change will end
5.    Not leaving enough time for change to occur


In this session you will learn what information is critical for people to have to make successful organizational changes, why it is important to deal with emotions and some strategies for effectively addressing them, how to work with early, middle, late, and those who never adopt the change, components to consider for building an organization that is built to change, and why sufficient time for change is important. 

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SESSION #13

Tuesday, April 22
8:00 PM EDT

John SavageJohn S. Savage, D. Min. - author of "The Apathetic and Bored Church Member", "Listening and Caring Skills"

Processes for Managing and Resolving Conflcit



What you will learn:

  • DEPENDENT: The more you make people dependent upon you, the more conflict you will have.
  • CONFLICT: No one wants to be dependent all the time.
  • COHESION: This is my church.  A time of belonging
  • INTERDEPENDENCE: Maximum stage of group life.  Each person is honored for their unique contribution.




SESSION #14

Tuesday, May 6
8:00 EST  

John SavageDoug Lawrence - Presentation Coach, Consultant

Seven Important Communication Values of Real Leaders





   BE:


1. Strong and decisive, but attentive to others
2. Friendly, but firm
3. Knowledgeable, but quick to hand off questions that are better handled by others
4. Generous, but very devoted to the bottom line
5. Confident, but transparent
6. Forward looking, but very aware of tradition and history
7. Prepared, but not ridged

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SESSION #16

Tuesday, June 10
8:00 EST  

Sally Morgenthaler Sally Morgenthaler - Author and Speaker

 Reframing Great Leadership





  



Subtopics:

  • Leadership Mythologies
  • Re-defining Leadership
  • Leadership's Best Practices
  • Leading Out of Possibility vs. Scarcity
  • How Cultural Shifts are Changing the Nature of Leadership


Objective:  Listeners will be exposed to new paradigms of leadership resulting in changed perspectives regarding who they are as leaders, the true purpose of their organization, and the potential of the people they lead



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SESSION #17

Tuesday, June 24
8:00 PM EDT

John SavageJohn S. Savage, D. Min. - author of "The Apathetic and Bored Church Member", "Listening and Caring Skills"
Belief Change Strategies:  Neuro-Linguistic Programming Change Strategy

What you will learn:
  • What constitutes the nature of a belief system
  • Why we have beliefs - and their purpose
  • What created the purpose of a particular belief
  • Why we beleive a belief even when it is destructive to us
  • Some ways of altering a belief that is no longer useful
  • How the internal and external world shapes our belief system
  • How a step-by-step process will change a belief

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SESSION #18

Tuesday, July 15
8:00 PM EDT


John Savage
John S. Savage, D. Min.
-
author of "The Apathetic and Bored Church Member", "Listening and Caring Skills"
 
Listening to the Unconscious 


 


 

You will learn:

• How the brain moves from unconscious to sub-conscious to conscious
• The functions of these three levels
• How to process difficult experiences that are located in the unconscious
• How God communicated in all three levels
• How to listen for themes and metaphors at the sub-conscious and conscious levels
• How to discover the power of the aligning of the conscious, the sub-conscious and the unconscious
• How to wake up the sub-conscious to bring it to consciousness
• How to discover the power of intuition


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SESSION #19

Tuesday, July 29
8:00 PM EDT

Hugh BallouHugh Ballou - Facilitator, Executive Coach, Business Strategist, and Author of  four books on transformational leadership.



 
Conducting Power-Packed Meetings





You will
learn:

    •    How to stimulate the involvement of everyone
    •    How to build consensus and reduce conflict
    •    How to structure creative decisions
    •    How to generate creative ideas
    •    How to get more done in less time


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SESSION #20

Tuesday, August 12
8:00 PM EDT

John SavageJohn S. Savage, D. Min. Author of "The Apathetic and Bored Church Member, "Listening and Caring Skills"


  
Neurological Mind Sorts: How the Mind Sorts Reality




You will
learn:

  • Why am I motivated to do one thing but not another?
  • How to choose people for a committee or team
  • About the four sorts
1. Highest level - self motivate
2. What you love - someone asks you to do it
3. What you have to do - someone convinces you to do it
4. What you refuse to do - you through it out and don't do it
  • How to use this information in leading your organization
  • Learn about the self vs others balance

Part 2 to be presented on September 9
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SESSION #21

Tuesday, Aug 19
8:00 PM EDT

Angie Hollerich
Angie Hollerich
-
Trainer, Speaker, Author

 
Solutions to the 10 Most Common Money Mistakes


You will learn:

• How to make the right financial decisions
• How to recognize financial roadblocks
• Proven financial strategies
• Answers to common financial questions
• Solutions to the most common money mistakes

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SESSION #22

Tuesday, September 9
8:00 PM EDT

John SavageJohn S. Savage, D. Min. Author of "The Apathetic and Bored Church Member, "Listening and Caring Skills"


  
Neurological Mind Sorts: How the Mind Sorts Reality,
Part 1 & 2



You will learn:

  • Why am I motivated to do one thing but not another?
  • How to choose people for a committee or team
  • About the four sorts
1. Highest level - self motivate
2. What you love - someone asks you to do it
3. What you have to do - someone convinces you to do it
4. What you refuse to do - you through it out and don't do it
  • How to use this information in leading your organization
  • Learn about the self vs others balance
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Special Two-Traing Set
$20






SESSION #23

Tuesday, September 16
8:00 PM EDT

Hugh BallouHugh Ballou - Facilitator, Executive Coach, Business Strategist, and Author of  four books on transformational leadership.



  
Building High Performance Teams





You will
learn:

  • How to avoid conflict with team agreements
  • How to build ownership for your projects
  • How to set and implement powerful team goals
  • How to build synergy in your team


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$15