Christian Leadership Excellence by Design: Leveraging the Links Through Coaching
Christian Leadership Excellence by Design:Leveraging the Links Through Coaching
Kelly M.G. Whelan| 2017
Abstract
It is paramount for today’s leaders to strive to understand and incorporate what is learned through Biblical Scripture is a way to honor God. He, the original and ever-present leader, has designed an unchanging manual to guide, develop, and sustain contemporary organizations. This book bridges the gap between sacred and secular leadership and talent management and development strategy. Leaders of today are required to strategize, develop, engage, and execute their visions. Fulfillment of these requirements does not happen in a vacuum. These continuous, interchangeable, managed aspects of leadership require the participation of others. Managing a talented workforce is not done by chance but by design. Your organization, no matter how big or small, public or private, start-up or established, secular or sacred, is a living, breathing body of people filled with an incredible breadth of untapped potential waiting to be recognized, embraced, and set into action. Sustainability begins at the heart of your organization, with your people. As you dive into the pages of this book, you will uncover age old, historical principles that are relevant for today’s 21stcentury organizations.
Establishing organizations that inviteGod as the centerwill establish cooperative, compelling relationships in the workplace that strengthen and rejuvenate your people. As Christian strategic leaders keep God central in their everyday business practices, they become an example to emulate. Once organizations link God’s word with vision and values coupled with definitive coaching strategies to maximize individual potential, the organization is positioned for excellence. When your people are doing what they do best; engagement, sustainability, and your bottom line will flourish. Developing strategies that align with God’s word allows leaders to have a broader vision – be ahead of the curve and think outside of the box. Coach practitioners offer a way forward. The coach advances the client by assisting in the design process of actionable steps and follow through toward goal achievement. An organizational coach practitioner brings an added level of competence to create formal structures that unite with the organization’s objectives. When an organizational coach practitioner partners to drive development down and throughout the organization by designing a coaching culture, a competitive advantage is created. This competitive advantage adds value by developing a pipeline of leaders for sustainability and positions the organization for success by design not by default.