God Dreams 12 Vision Templates… Will Mancini
“God Dreams shows how to reclaim the role of long-range vision today by providing 12 vision templates, each with biblical, historical and contemporary illustrations. These vision starters will dramatically accelerate your team’s ability to find complete agreement regarding your church’s future. God Dreams explains how to overcome the fruitless planning efforts that many church teams experience. This tool will galvanize a diverse team of ministry leaders and volunteers with unprecedented enthusiasm.”
Sacred Hoops – Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior
An excellent resource to teach the value of team vs individual contributors. This may be particularly of interest to sports minded priests as it is co-written by the famous basketball coach and former player, Phil Jackson. He provides good insights and guidance on leadership and motivation.
Getting to Yes – Fisher and Ury
Getting to Yes has helped millions of people learn a better way to negotiate – it is based on the work of the Harvard Negotiation Project, a group that deals with all levels of negotiation and conflict resolution.
Pastoral Leadership – Best Practices for Church Leaders Dan Ebener
In this practical, visionary, and accessible book, veteran teacher, author, and parish leader Dan Ebener explores what it takes to lead in a Catholic parish. He contends that anyone can lead change in a parish with or without positional authority. The premise of this book is that the Church needs leadership. In most places, the Church is over-managed and under-led. To turn this around, we need clergy to: 1. Provide more leadership and less management themselves. 2. Develop the leadership potential of the laity.
Servant Leadership Models for Your Parish – Dan R. Ebener
Offers practical wisdom based on solid research about the practice of servant leadership. Models created from church-based research include: seven behaviors practiced by leaders and members in a servant-led organization, seven “keys” that explain why servant leadership works, and many real-life examples that describe how servant leadership works. The main message here is that if the leader serves the people, the mission and the organization, the people will serve each other, the mission and the organization.
