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What is the strategic role of the Senior Pastor/CEO/Summit Point Leader related to the Summit?
Past experience verifies that Summit sites are most successful when the Senior Pastor/CEO/Summit Point Leader believes in and communicates the life-changing potential of on-going leadership development. We can’t over stress the pivotal role the Senior Pastor/CEO/Summit Point Leader plays as an advocate for the Summit, both in your own organization and in the community. Also, as our partner in raising the value of leadership development in your area, your Senior Pastor/CEO/Summit Point Leader is invited to take part in special gatherings with senior GLN leaders and staff throughout the year.
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What commitment is essential from your team to succeed as a Partner Host Site?
In addition to the Senior Pastor/Summit Point Leader, Host Sites will need a Summit Team of staff leaders and/or volunteers to help promote, manage, and facilitate the overall Summit experience. Four essential leadership roles have been identified: Promotional Strategist, Event Manager, Technical Director, and Producer. Role descriptions are provided for each team leader. If these roles are assigned to staff members, it’s important to help prioritize and recognize their additional workload, especially in the months leading up to the Summit.
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What support does the GLN provide?
Each of your Summit Team leaders will be working with the appropriate GLN staff leader for training and ongoing communication as needed to achieve their accountabilities. Your team will have access to a wealth of helpful information through Summit Central—a website dedicated to providing important up-to-date information, timelines, orders, database, and promotional tools.
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What other responsibilities will you have?
GLN leaders will come alongside your Event Manager with recommendations and support on building a complete volunteer team, outlining the various roles that need to be filled. The volunteers who will serve your registered guests play one of the most important roles in creating a successful Summit site experience.
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When is the marketing season for the Summit?
Kick-off for promoting the Summit begins in late February. We strongly encourage Partner Host Sites to begin communicating with area churches and within their own congregations as early as March—before people lock down their summer plans.
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Where do the majority of people come from to attend your site?
The advantage of hosting the Summit allows your church/organization to go deep within your constituents because of price and convenience. As a general rule the majority of people attending would come from your own organization. Typically, other Summit guests will come from within a 20-mile radius of your site—this would include area churches, para-church ministries, seminaries/schools, and businesses. We strongly encourage you to make sure your guests represent a broad spectrum of ethnic backgrounds, denominations, and socioeconomic status.
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In what ways can other area churches/organizations help you promote your Summit site?
The GLN encourages you to take advantage of our “Summit Partner Program,” which encourages you to recruit up to five organizations and area churches of different denominations (to increase the diversity of networks and contacts) so that together you can reach as many people as possible with this convenient and affordable leadership development opportunity. Summit Partners will receive a registration discount for their members to share and participate in the vision of the Summit with you. The goal is to make the Summit a community-wide leadership development effort.
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Where can I find free leadership resources to develop my skills year-round outside of the annual Global Leadership Summit?
The Global Leadership Network offers multiple opportunities for leadership growth throughout the year, including leadership articles curated from experts in the field, hundreds of insightful videos, and one of the world’s most popular leadership podcasts including conversations with our world-class Summit faculty and expert guest contributors.
To learn more about these opportunities, go to GlobalLeadership.org/LeadershipNow and consider subscribing to our newsletter to stay up to date on the latest news and insights.
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Unleashing Leadership Experience
We value our Global Leadership Summit partners who have a passion for equipping, encouraging, and inspiring others to invest in their leadership development. As a host, you connect people together and build bridges for positive transformation to take place right in your community.
WATCH: Listen as Craig Groeschel shares five reasons why you should host The Global Leadership Summit.
The Impact
Hosting the Summit gives you the unique opportunity to create and encourage a leadership culture, connect with others in your area, and build bridges to ignite positive transformation in your community! It allows you to develop valuable relationships, not only with those on your team or in your community, but also with other host site leaders across the country!
WATCH: Host Site leaders talk about the impact of hosting The Global Leadership Summit has made on their community.
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Technology
These technological requirements will provide a high-value event to guests participating at your venue.
Team Lead Roles
Having these important roles and volunteer support help maximize the experience of guests who attend your host site.
The Global Leadership Summit helps you discover your purpose and become someone who makes a difference both now and in the future. Each year, GLS brings ministry and marketplace expertise together who will challenge you to grow and become a catalyst for change. You will leave equipped to create a culture where servant leadership can change homes, organizations, communities, and the world.
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The Global Leadership Summit is more than an event—for more than 25 years, the Summit has been recognized as an opportunity to ignite transformation in your personal life, ministry, work and even your community. How? By equipping you with valuable leadership skills and inspiration to make a positive difference wherever you have influence.
Watch: David Ashcraft, President and CEO of the Global Leadership Network, talk about the importance and the value of being humble and willing to learn from anyone. For transcript of David Ashcraft’s video, click here »
World-Class, Accessible & Affordable
Each faculty member is carefully selected to deliver intellectually rigorous content in an environment that fosters vigorous thinking and dialogue. Hosted in more than 1,400 cities worldwide, the Summit is both accessible and affordable, facilitating participation and transformation.
Everyone’s Leadership Matters
Everyone has influence and the ability to positively impact their community. No matter your sphere of influence—in the family, school, work or church—we believe that when you commit to develop your leadership skills at the Summit and throughout the year, everyone around you wins!
Local Ownership, Global Reach
Premier Hosts—including churches and all types organizations—are uniquely equipped to impact the communities they serve, both online and in-person. Whether in a suburb of Los Angeles or a village in Vietnam, attendees are encouraged to develop their leadership and use it to positively impact those within their sphere of influence.
Unapologetically Christ-Centered
With a value to be unapologetically Christ-Centered in who we are as an organization, the Global Leadership Network strives to help leaders create a culture where servant leadership can change our homes, organizations, communities and world. Attracting an audience from every walk of life from Christians and non-Christians alike, the Summit focuses on curating a world-class faculty that delivers leadership principles that can be applied in almost any context.
