1. Leadership & Mentoring
Chan Abraham Chairman, TransformWork UK
November
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2. What tips can you give to help a leader maintain a fresh vision and the energy for leadership?
Many of the key characteristics of a good leader come "more naturally" to a whole-life Christian than to many others.  How can Christians most effectively mobilise this power in the workplace?
How do you encourage a top team to get a vision for this style of leadership?
What success stories are out there of business leaders who have been instrumental in building a spiritual movement on the edge of their workplace (i.e. an expanding movement of spiritual influence)?
What success stories are out there of business leaders who have been instrumental in building a spiritual movement within the very structures of their workplace?
What is the single biggest obstacle that prevents a Christian businessman from making his business his Christian ministry [the integration of one's talk with the walk and the church on Sunday with the church on Monday]
Many people see their work life as "separate" from the true life - how can we help them see that it will be better for them (and for their performance, and their organisation) of they can bring their purpose in life, and their organisation's purpose, more closely together
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3. Success in organisations, in normal business and in "change", comes from empowering people at many levels to act - like a social movement.  How can we get this to happen when the senior management team seek to retain full control and see a social movement as a threat
Is Jesus' Model of Servant Leadership [Served His mission, doing the will of His Father and led by serving those He called to carry out that mission] relevant in today’s marketplace?
Clarify for us your understanding of a person who is a leader as opposed to one that is a manager and the difficulties one has working for a "manager" who thinks he is a leader.
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4. Dealing with difficult people Implementing change
Staying positive when challenged by colleagues.
How can one avoid giving an impression of favouritism when seeking to spend time mentoring a young person?
Is it fruitful to continue mentoring someone who treats the mentoring with indifference?
What experience does anyone have of spiritual mentoring (by which I mean life mentoring) in the workplace without specialist (e.g. coaching) skills?
Encouraging participation of the whole fellowship. We have over 50 members on our list. Meetings are typically attended by Very few will volunteer to lead activities.
Outreach activities. Do you have any suggestions? We have run Alpha courses in the past, but we have had poor responses lately.
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5. General “Storming Norman” Schwarzkopf
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character, but if you must be without one, be without the strategy
General “Storming Norman” Schwarzkopf
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