Month: May 2022

Attend an Event or Curate Your Own Resources & Community? A Cost-Benefit Review

Posted on May 9, 2022 by - Leadership Development, News & Updates

Voice your Vision at The Global Leadership Summit 2022

How long would it take you to read 15 books, live 15 different lives, get several PhDs, and research on your own for these concepts?

One of the comments we’ve heard from those who haven’t yet sign up to attend an event is “I could curate this content on my own without paying the price of a ticket.” They’re not wrong. Technically, you COULD curate the leadership content and entertainment on your own, but you don’t have to, and the cost benefit in doing so does not actually pan out the way you might think.

In fact, attending an event like The Global Leadership Summit (GLS) is one of the best ways to get access to the latest leadership research in the context of a community of like-minded peers to spur you on.

In this article, look at the five cost benefits of attending The Global Leadership Summit.

 

1. Exclusive Leadership Content

Leadership isn’t something outside of me that I have to grasp, it’s something inside of me that I have to grow

The cost of a regular priced ticket for The Global Leadership Summit is $229 (to attend a host site or online). Let’s say you hear about 15 specially curated talks designed for your leadership growth that you will not likely hear anywhere else, amounting to approximately $15 per talk. The value? The value of even one life-changing new idea or fresh insight from a talk supported by years of research and experience gets multiplied when put into action. In fact, many attendees report life-changing results from attending the GLS.

Third-party research by Excellence in Giving reports the outcomes of past GLS attendees:

81% improved their job satisfaction 

“The Summit inspires us to lead with a purpose bigger than ourselves.” – Mike and Megan Tamte, Co-Founders & Co-CEO’s Evereve

74% improved the quality of their work

“The Summit has made many people within our organization better leaders, including me.”  – John Venhuizen, President & CEO, Ace Hardware Corp.

68% improved productivity

“The Summit gave me the practical leadership tools I needed to make my vision for my nonprofit a reality. It’s one thing to dream. It’s another to be able to lead people in the fight.”– Rebecca Bender, CEO & Founder, Elevate Academy

 

2. Networking & Community with Like-Minded Leaders Across Sectors

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The Global Leadership Summit is one of the only leadership events attracting leaders from every sector of society including ministry, business, education, government, nonprofit, healthcare, technology, entertainment, arts, and more.

What do they all have in common? They are curious, growth-minded, change-driven individuals with hope for a better future. In community, these men and women initiate transformation in ways we couldn’t have imagined. Whether you attend online or in-person at a local host site venue, you have the opportunity to meet like-minded people from across the country who could very well change the trajectory of your life.

 

3. Years of Research from Books Presented by Authors Themselves

The Summit gave me the practical leadership tools I needed to make my vision for my nonprofit a reality.

Let’s say the average cost of a book by one of our leadership faculty is approximately $20. If our faculty have books to offer at the event, the cost to purchase each book from our faculty would be about $300+. In addition to the cost, the time to read each book would take you about a year, depending on how fast of a reader you are. We don’t share this datapoint to discourage you from buying and reading these amazing books, in fact we encourage it for deeper learning. However, we note it to highlight the rich insights you can glean from hearing the authors themselves talk about their content in an event setting like the Summit.

 

4. LIVE Entertainment Integrated into Meaningful Learning

Our musicians and artists offer world-class entertainment and inspiration through dance, drama, music, art, and film. Throughout the event, their talent is thoughtfully integrated to provide space for the new leadership insight to sink in with fresh perspective. Furthermore, going to one of their shows at a local theater may cost you upwards of $50-$200+ dollars.

 

5. Collective Wisdom Concentrated into Two Days

In two days at The Global Leadership Summit, you can absorb new ideas and fresh insight from the collective learning, research, and experience of leading experts in their field—then take these new concepts and apply them into your life. How long would it take you to read 15 books, live 15 different lives, get several PhDs, and research on your own for these concepts? Certainly not two days! This is why we always say the Summit is so full of rich learning.

 

When you do the math, the value of your $229 ticket far exceeds the cost!
Will we see you there?!
Get your tickets today at GlobalLeadership.org/Summit

Creating a Culture of Forgiveness

Posted on May 6, 2022 by - Calling, Confidence, Culture, Emotional Intelligence, Leading Yourself, Resilience, Videos, Women Leaders, Women Leaders - Leading Others

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Watch Lysa TerKeurst describe the difference be risk-averse environment and a risk-confident environment, and how it cultivates a culture of forgiveness and psychological safety.

The Genius of Jesus—GLSnext Event Series Notes

Posted on May 5, 2022 by - Articles, Calling, Communication, Confidence, Influence, Leading Others, Leading Yourself, Relational Intelligence, Relationship with God, Servant Leadership

GLSnext Event Series on May 5, 2022

Exploring the lives of geniuses brings us new ways to look at the world. Few leaders know this better than Erwin Raphael McManus. In this talk at the GLSnext Event Series on May 5, 2022, Erwin explored the profound gravity that Jesus’ life and teaching has on leadership, drawing from his latest book, The Genius of Jesus.

Enjoy these official notes from his talk on The Genius of Jesus.

 

What does it mean to be uniquely human?
      • This is a leadership conversation.
      • We’ve turned leadership into a domain of knowledge without ever paying attention to what it means to be human.
      • If you’re a leader, your expertise should not be leadership. Your expertise should be humanity.
      • One of the things that’s significantly different about human beings is that human beings have the capacity to materialize the invisible.
      • All around us we see the materialization of the human imagination.

 

The Creativity of Humans
      • When we talk about the future, we most often talk about the future as if it already exists, as if it’s something that happens to us, rather than something that happens from us.
      • Humans create futures in the way that bees create honey, ants create colonies, and silkworms create silk.
      • Once you connect this to the essence of being created in the image of God, we realize we were imagined to imagine and created to create.
      • All of us are both works of art and artists at work.

 

We don’t know how to do human well.
      • You feel it in the language of depression, anxiety, and despair.
      • You see in the outcome of suicide.
      • You see it when a person is paralyzed and is afraid, not of death, but of life.

 

The Weight and Power of Leadership
      • Leadership cannot simply be about where we’re going, but who we are becoming.
      • If we can begin by asking the question, not just, “Who am I?” But “What am I?” we can actually begin to lead people more effectively.
      • What if leadership was not about convincing people to follow you in a certain direction, but about unlocking the full capacity and potential inside of every human being?
      • What if inside of every human being there was a latent genius waiting to be awakened? And the real power of leadership is to bring that genius into reality for that person?

 

The Art of Communication
      • If leadership is our calling, then the human spirit is our canvas and our art form.
      • You cannot change the world if you cannot translate your ideas, your values, and your vision into language. You cannot bring healing. You cannot transform the inner world until you take mastery over the words that shape who you are.

 

The Power of Story
      • We cannot carry an emotion without a story.
      • The sum of who you are is the manifestation of the story you’ve convinced is the story of you.
      • You cannot carry bitterness unless there’s a story attached to it.
      • Leadership, in its most powerful form, is expressed when we begin to give people a better story to live on.
      • I began to realize that a part of the movement of Jesus was the power of the stories we tell.

 

Phantom Pain & Loss
      • Phantom pain happens when you lose a limb, when you lose a part of you that once belonged to you.
      • Phantom pain only happens when you lose something that was once yours.
      • I am convinced that human ideals are the phantom pain of the soul.
      • We actually believe and talk about things like world peace, when we have never known, not one generation or era, peace on earth.
      • Human beings are actually motivated by ideals we have never experienced. How is it possible to even conceptualize something we’ve never experienced at all?
      • I think it’s interesting when people say to me, “I can’t believe in God because I’ve never seen it, or seen Him, or seen proof of Him.” And I wonder, how in the world do you believe in love, or in peace, or in justice?
      • We long for a world where every human being is treated with dignity, respect, and compassion. Those are the human ideals that are the phantom pain of the soul.
      • I think our souls remember what it’s like to be human, and long to be, somehow reconnected with our highest ideals, to becoming the best version of us.

 

Humans Are Open Looped Creatures
      • The powerful thing about our words is that when you speak words into a human being, you are literally affecting the universe within them.
      • If we were closed-loop creatures, nothing from the outside environment would affect you.
      • We can actually breathe into each other. We can exhale what is within us and translate it into the essence, into the soul, to the inner world of another human being.
      • Imagine when we are full of hope how we can translate hope to another person. How, when we are full of love, we can translate love into another human being. When we are filled with life, we can translate life into another person.

 

Shifting Our View of Leadership
      • Imagine if we shifted our view of leadership from, “How do I get people to do what I need them to do?” to “How do I help people become who God designed them to become?”
      • The future is not fate. The future is not magic. The future isn’t something we step into—the future is what comes out of us.
      • Human beings are designed to create futures.
      • Every day when you choose, you are choosing a future. Every day when you act, you are creating a future.
      • You don’t have to look inside of yourself and think, there is not enough material to do what God created you to do. There is genius inside of you.
      • I know that 2% of adults test out as geniuses, but 98% of you were geniuses before you were convinced you are not.

 

What if the church became the epicenter of human creativity?
      • What if every place where Jesus’ name was elevated, human capacity erupted?
      • Your only limitation is your highest thought. Your highest thought is your only ceiling.
      • God designed you to have this extraordinary space called the human imagination. And it’s on your imagination that God paints the most extraordinary future waiting to be created.
      • The future may be trapped by the words you will not speak. It’s time to open your mouth to paint on the canvas of the human spirit, to take mastery over the art of communication. And to know that you have been given the creative power of being created in the image and likeness of God.

The Enemy of Our Ego—GLSnext Event Series Notes

Posted on May 5, 2022 by - Articles, Character, Complex Thinking, Confidence, Emotional Intelligence, Leading Yourself, Learning Agility, Productivity, Resilience, Women Leaders, Women Leaders - Leading Yourself

GLSnext Event Series on May 5, 2022

From self-awareness, to self-promotion, to self-interest, every leader has to maintain a balance of how they navigate both the world around them and the emotions within them. During his talk at the GLSnext Event Series on May 5, 2022, Ryan Holiday showed us how great leaders have tapped into ancient and timeless wisdom. He also challenged us to reevaluate our reactions, our daily rhythms, and our ego.

Enjoy these official notes from Ryan Holiday’s talk on The Enemy of Our Ego.

Philosophy is about solving the problems of life, not theoretically, but practically. Philosophy is about:

      • Responding to adversity
      • Finding peace
      • Doing important work

 

3 Philosophical Principles and Mantras

1. The Obstacle is the Way

Story: Everything goes wrong for the Emperor of Rome, Marcus Aurelius, in 160 AD—from pandemic to plague to historic flooding to invasions. His reign experiences a series of troubles.

      • You have a choice when you face trouble.
        • When we look at a circumstance, whether it’s a pandemic or financial difficulties, a troublesome employee, or logistical issues, we have the choice—is it unfortunate or fortunate? The stoics would say we get to decide.
        • Marcus Aurelius writes, “While our actions can be impeded, while stuff can get in our way, nothing can impede our intentions or dispositions. We can accommodate and adapt everything to our own purposes. We can convert an obstacle to our own purposes. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
        • We have the opportunity to step up and use what life has given us in some way, perhaps not in the way we planned, perhaps not in the way we desire, but we can nevertheless use it.
      • The discipline of perception.
        • Deciding how you see things and deciding to use what life gives you is one of our most important skills.
        • We control our attitude, our opinions, our beliefs, and our emotions.
        • You control what you do about a situation and how you’re going to respond.
        • Laura Ingles Wilder says, “There’s good in everything, if only we look for it.”
        • What are you going to look for?
        • Excellence is using the difficult, the unexpected, and the situation to become better, do better, to be of service, to lead, and to rise to that challenge.

 

2. Ego is the Enemy

Most empires collapse from within. Most problems are self-inflicted. Most errors are unforced. At the root of so many of them is ego.

      • The difference between ego and confidence.
        • In Alcoholics Anonymous, they have a definition that ego is a conscious separation from other people, from reality, from the facts, and from your weaknesses.
        • The acronym EGO stands for Edging God Out. It also edges other people out. It edges everything out but your own selfishness.
        • Confidence is understanding where your weaknesses are. Confidence makes room for vulnerability.
        • We have to accept that we’re not unbreakable, that we are human beings, and we make mistakes.
      • How do you combat ego?
        • Limit exposure to social media.
        • Seek out things that humble you.
        • Surround yourself with people who are better, smarter, faster, and more experienced than you.
      • How ego holds you back.
        • The reason ego holds us back is that it prevents us from not wanting to look foolish. But it’s only in foolishness that we improve.
        • If you can’t admit you don’t know something, how are you going to learn?
        • If you can’t admit that you’re struggling, that you’re failing, that you have these vulnerabilities, you deprive yourself of this ability to get better.
        • You can’t get the help you need if you’re afraid to ask.
      • How humility serves you and others.
        • Humility allows us to be vulnerable.
        • Humility elevates not only us, but the people around us.

 

3. Stillness is the Key
      • In stillness is where your best work comes from.
        • Ryan’s routine to get into stillness includes getting up early, walking with his kids in nature, journaling, then he tackles the most important task of the day in deep-focus work. He also avoids his phone for the first 30 minutes to an hour of his day.
        • If you don’t have space for reflection, then you will just react.
        • The key to stillness is how much you can concentrate in uninterrupted focus.
        • To find more stillness, you may have to say no a lot.
        • Everything you say yes to is saying no to something else.
        • When you eliminate the inessential, you make space for the important things.

 

Summary:

      • The obstacle is the way. There is no problem so bad that there is not some good in it that we can’t move forward from.
      • Ego is the enemy. We’ve never thought that more egos are the solutions to our problems. In fact, we know that ego is the cause of our problems, and we want to make room for humility and confidence, self-awareness, vulnerability, openness, and connection.
      • Stillness is the key. Good things come when we are connected, present, locked in, and saying yes to the essential, and no to the inessential.

Ep 101: “Stick to Your Simple” (For the Good of the World)—Danielle Coke & Danielle Strickland

Posted on May 3, 2022 by - Calling, Leading Yourself, Podcasts, Women Leaders, Women Leaders - Leading Yourself

Now introducing The Global Leadership Podcast presented by the Global Leadership Network.

SUMMARY:

What if learning to focus simply on what you’ve been called to do could enhance your leadership and influence? In this conversation, entrepreneur, illustrator, and advocate, Danielle Coke shares all the different ways “finding her simple” has impacted her calling, her craft, and her leadership. Listen as this young leader shares her insights on “going viral”, knowing when to step back as a leader, and what it takes to keep creativity flowing in her life.

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

STICK TO YOUR SIMPLE.  Find the specific thing you do, do it, and then let others do what they do. There’s power and consistency in what comes natural to you.   

 

FIND THE HEART OF THE MATTER. In complex situations, identify the heart of the matter and communicate that. Ask yourself, “What’s the one thing I can communicate about this?” 

 

SHARE WHAT YOU’RE LEARNING IN THE MOMENT. You don’t need to have all the answers. By “sticking to your simple” you can help others even as you are processing with them.  

 

OUR ATTITUDE IN ADVERSITY MATTERS. Be open to the idea that what we perceive as disaster may actually be opportunity in disguise, pointing us to the work that we actually should be doing.  

 

LEAN INTO HOPE. Conscious optimism is hopeful about the future, but realistic about the work that still needs to be done. We can choose to work to create a better future.  

 

STEP BACK FROM THE PLATFORM. Over-consumption of the news can drown our hope. Over-consumption (through social media) of what other people are doing can drown our creativity through comparison.  

  

STEPPING BACK ALLOWS US TO BE READY WHEN WE’RE NEEDED. By stepping back proactively, we can be ready in times of distress to step up and help in the ways we’ve been gifted.  

 

BE AWARE OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PERFORMING AND CREATING. Creating flows from inside you and is inherently sustainable. Performing results from acting only for others’ reactions and approval and is inherently unsustainable.  

 

 

RELATED LINKS:

Global Leadership Network 

The Global Leadership Summit 

Danielle Strickland 

Danielle Coke 

 

 

Healthy Pastors Lead Healthy Churches and Healthy Churches Change the World

Posted on May 2, 2022 by - Calling, Church, Church & Faith-Based, Confidence, Leading Organizations, Leading Yourself, Nonprofit, North America, Replenishment, Resilience, Stories, Wellness

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The Global Leadership Network’s premier two-day leadership event of the year has been held annually in August for the last 25+ years. Gathering hundreds of thousands of people from various industries and backgrounds, one of the things that makes The Global Leadership Summit (GLS) so unique are the leaders who know that in order to create a better world around them, they must first invest in their own growth.

Marty Sawyers HeadshotWith the shared belief that when a leader gets better, everyone around them gets better too, longtime GLS attendee, Marty Sawyers, President & CEO of Full Strength Network, knows deeply how important it is to take care of yourself as a leader so that you can take care and lead others well. In addition to the fresh leadership insights Marty gains from attending the GLS, it’s been the overall value placed on a leader’s responsibility to care for their leadership growth that has brought him back year after year, fueling his growth and maximizing the impact of his work through the nonprofit, Full Strength Network.

90% of Pastors feel they are inadequately trained to cope with the ministry demands.

Marty believes taking care of yourself as a leader is especially critical for those in ministry. “Leading is hard and I believe leading in a church is even harder,” said Marty, who spent the first part of his career in the corporate world before he became an executive pastor.

Now leading a nonprofit focused on the wellbeing of pastors and ministry leaders he says, “I get fulfillment and satisfaction as a leader when I get to play a part no matter how small in seeing others and especially pastors and ministry leaders fulfill their calling and purpose that God has placed on their lives. I pray that anyone in ministry has access to get the well-being resources that help them get better, stronger, healthier, and stay in their calling to support God’s plan to spread the Gospel.”

The Hard Truth About Pastors

One of the common struggles facing pastors today is the misconception that they are exempt from problems related to mental and spiritual health. Unfortunately, there’s still a stigma around asking for help. “You don’t need to be broken and in crisis to need counseling,” said Marty. “Pastors and ministry leaders want help but often need permission and privacy to get the support they need at whatever level of support that is.”

The statistics about the struggle many pastors face emphasize the need for the ministry Full Strength Network provides:

      • 90% of Pastors feel they are inadequately trained to cope with the ministry demands.
      • 83% of ministry leader spouses want their spouse to leave pastoral ministry.
      • 38% of Pastors have contemplated quitting their calling in the last year.
      • 50% of all Pastors are in some form of crisis or burnout.

“We celebrate athletes when they take time to work on their mental health, but we fire pastors or think there is something wrong when they ask for help,” said Marty. “Also, as a nonprofit it’s sometimes difficult to raise funds for what many people think pastors should be able to handle on their own. This isn’t clean water and food in a really tough environment overseas. This is giving pastors and ministry leaders support with their mental health.”

If the Church is the bride of Christ, how much more important is it to value the health of its leaders?

We’re so grateful for the leaders in our GLS audience like Marty Sawyers who value their leadership growth and recognize the critical need to invest in your wellbeing. “We believe healthy pastors lead healthy churches, and healthy churches change the world,” said Marty.

This short video about a pastor’s recovery from burnout illustrates this important value:

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If you are a pastor or ministry leader searching for support, Full Strength Network offers affordable counseling, coaching, and resources designed for your wellbeing. Learn more at FullStrength.org.

Invest in Your Leadership at The Global Leadership Summit

“I take responsibility to develop myself,” said Marty. “Leadership development is important to everyone in the organization and should be a priority no matter what type of organization you work for because everyone wins when a leader gets better. If I’m serious about being a better leader for everyone else’s benefit and not just my own, then I need to always be learning and growing. If I don’t get better or use that for others, then the GLS was just a nice couple of days of talks. If you care about what you do and how you lead yourself and others, then you need to prioritize your development.”

Join Marty and others at The Global Leadership Summit LIVE August 4-5, 2022, online or at a local venue near you. Get Tickets >>