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A Curriculum in Dynamic Leadership: A Holistic Approach to Leadership Transformation and Development

A Curriculum in Dynamic Leadership: A Holistic Approach to Leadership Transformation and Development

Jamika L. Bivens | 2022

Abstract

Leadership is a complex system that requires all parties involved to engage and play their respective roles to accomplish shared goals. Coordinating all the roles that followers play and developing them is essential to creating and sustaining a successful leadership system. Many organizations are plagued by not employing leaders who are not equipped to provide continuous development for subordinates. Leaders must merge technical skills (hard skills) and human relationship skills (soft skills) to develop their followers and transform them into leaders successfully.

A Curriculum in Dynamic Leadership: A Holistic Approach to Leadership Transformation and Development is an online course that students can take to earn a certification in Holistic Leadership upon successfully completing the program. Holistic leadership is leadership that creates positive change in followers or employees and is dedicated to the success of an organization. Holistic leaders are focused on continually developing themselves while simultaneously developing and coaching followers to elevate to their fullest potential. These leaders prioritize values and principles that reflect their ethics and hold themselves accountable for acting with integrity in every business and personal interaction.

Holistic leaders separate themselves from others by understanding that the ultimate goals of leadership rely on followership; these followers are then elevated by a holistic leader and should be trained to continue the cycle of leadership development. A Curriculum in Dynamic Leadership: A Holistic Approach to Leadership Transformation and Development bridges the gap between traditional and contemporary leadership skills with Human Relationship skills to train multifaceted leaders with the internal tools and resources to create significant change worldwide. Individuals who complete the curriculum will learn leadership’s inspiration, characteristics, and competence while developing into forward-looking visionaries.

Passing the Baton: Equipping Emerging Christian Female Leaders for the 21st Century

Passing the Baton: Equipping Emerging Christian Female Leaders for the 21st Century

Bobette Brown | 2022

Abstract

This project highlights the importance of passing the baton to next-generation female leaders. This paper argues the necessity for successful and seasoned female leaders to create momentum for the next-generation female leader. Women have a unique leadership DNA. Amid the ongoing debate of gender equity in high-level leadership roles, women are boldly and unapologetically embracing their uniqueness as leaders in today’s modern world. Before the beginning of time, the Lord called women to lead. He embedded unique traits within their DNA, and those intricacies are indelibly pressed into the fibers of their leadership wand, revealing a priceless genetic legacy.

Passing the Baton: Equipping Emerging Christian Female Leaders for the 21st Century is a practical guide and source of inspiration written in a thought-provoking and conversational manner incorporating biblical guidance for leadership development. It provides leaders with evidence-based research to understand leadership theory and performance, organizational philosophy, and strategies to educate themselves and next-generation female leaders. Additionally, it explains and highlights the dynamics of leadership development and succession planning approaches to ensure a timely leadership baton pass adequately prepares emerging female leaders for their journey.

Keywords: women, female leadership, next-generation female leaders, transformational leadership, succession planning, leadership development

The Resilience Group

The Resilience Group – Homelessness Recovery Firm: Implementing a Coaching Model for Sustainable Homelessness Recovery

Shoneen N. Brown | 2022

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The significance of this study is to mitigate the cycle of chronic homelessness by implementing case management practices in recovery and transitional efforts to afford individuals to achieve self-efficacy and live a resilient and abundant life. Many citizens of the homeless population can experience chronic displacement for decades. According to Dr. Cyrus Williams, a licensed counselor, professor in the School of Psychology & Counseling at Regent University, advocate, and active participant in homelessness recovery efforts, “for individuals who experience consistent or chronic homeless, homelessness becomes a lifestyle” (2021). For some, effortless access to government, local, and community assistance programs can cause individuals to become complacent, negating the desire for self-efficacy and sufficiency. Most programs are easy to re-enroll after failed attempts at re-acclimation to society (Williams, 2021). Personal accountability during the recovery process becomes nonexistent, and the cycle continues, passing along the mindset of homelessness from generation to generation (Bingham, 2021). However, accountability is not one-sided. Positioning well-trained, competent coaches ensure the recovery process is founded on a solid collaborative relationship.

This project is designed to review the coaching process and its proposed role in homelessness recovery to encourage impactful and sustainable change for the homeless. We will investigate the history and variables contributing to homelessness in the United States, then narrow our scope and discuss current trends of homeless and the services provided to individuals within the Virginia Beach, Norfolk, and Portsmouth communities of Virginia. Various shelter program managers, community directors, licensed counselors, and psychologists participated in this study through interviews to discuss the current climate of homelessness, the lasting traumatic effects of homelessness, current recovery initiatives, and the future of homelessness. “There is an immediate need for implementation of coaching modules within homelessness recovery cases as homeless people are often in survival mode, and unable to see past the here and now.” (Williams, 2021) Coaching is a springboard for changing the mindset of what is possible, empowering the homeless to move forward.

Using Your Voice Strategically

Using Your Voice Strategically

Patrice Campbell | 2022

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This paper explores the various ways to use your voice in different domains. We shall focus on the benefits and implications when using your voice or the lack of using your voice. This paper will distinguish how to lead, the characteristics of a leader, and how time has cultivated the way people maneuver themselves in personal, business, and faith-based situations. We shall also provide efficient and effective ways to communicate, discuss why discernment is important prior to speaking/reacting, and unveil significant resolutions. The topics and research are plentiful; however, we will begin by defining what leadership is, how biblical leaders contributed to Christianity and the necessity for having a voice. The implications will be drawn from a survey and personal experiences, and then solidified by what will help future leaders to be/become successful while providing a strong foundation for other leaders and their followers.

Communication, voice articulation, and expressing self-individuality in the sense of leading have evolved significantly. “Voicerefers to the behavior of expressing ideas, opinions, suggestions, or alternative approaches that aims at organizational change and improvement” (Mian, Zhong & Ren, 2022). This document will shed light on how people have changed how they can and will use their voices. In a biblical domain, people use their voice to communicate, follow, listen, and lead. Moreover, it is God’s word that leads communication; it is followed by applying the word and using it to get through to its followers/potential followers. God was able to use people to spread the word and compel others to follow or take a position to help lead. 2 Corinthians 2:14, “But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us n triumphal procession, and through us spreads he fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.” Today, communication is delivered by a series of methods. The generation has changed so much; its primary method is through emotional intelligence/technology and other informal means (i.e., text, email, gossip). It is important to discuss past, present, and future norms to further evolve communication processes and the best methods to find your voice, use your voice, and remain in the likeness of God’s umbrella.

While many biblical characters used their voices to speak out on various topics, some stand out more than others. Ruth, a strong humble, woman of God, shows to be relevant while indulging in people who use their voice. We will further discuss her position and how she contributed to followership, leadership, obedience, and loyalty, while being a God-fearing woman; After learning of Ruth, assessing some of her theories or methodologies for self-utilization is quite common. A significant portion of this paper will discuss the essence of having a personal story, using your own story to enlighten others, and engaging in self-awareness to cultivate change within ourselves and others.

The last portion(s) of this document will expand and explain the different environments/organizations in that followers and leaders can and should use their voices. It will distinguish how to use your voices, when to use it, and when to listen more than speak. Different places require different reactions. That means a person must use discernment and go into situations using prayer, which will be their guide in the hope of doing as 1 Corinthians 14:40, “Let all things be done decently and in order.” “Within the Christian life, there are many pillars of truth which are critical to ourspiritualdevelopment and one of these isdiscernment. The word may have several meanings, but mostly it’s associated with havingspiritualsensitivity” (Gleaner, 2020). Prior to presenting the Power Point presentation to a group of leaders at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, I withstood a dry-run presentation that allowed me to discover any issues prior to the actual presentation. The eight (8) leaders/peers that I had the pleasure of presenting to were randomly selected from various sections within my military domain; these leaders were briefed regarding the presentation being a direct reflection of this document. This document and the presentation’s conclusion will confer and end with specific implications and solutions.

Reclaiming Integrity as a Ministerial Identity: Conceptualizing T.R.M. Coaching as an Approach

Reclaiming Integrity as a Ministerial Identity: Conceptualizing T.R.M. Coaching as an Approach

Marc A. Crowley | 2022

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The rough terrain of the Church environment over the past decade has withered the public ministerial vote of confidence. The acts of God have taken precedence over the ways of God, resultantly, each successive generation moves further from the One foundation upon which the Church is built. The news stories of ministers who “fall from grace” have inundated and decimated community perception, decreasing the effectiveness and progress of the Church. The deafening decibel of cries to reclaim integrity as a ministerial identity ripple through churches and communities.

Coaching is an approach to reclaiming religious integrity. Foundationally, integrity is an adherence to moral and ethical principles. Integrity, also expressed as soundness, unimpairment, and in perfect condition. This manuscript explores, demonstrates, and proves the necessity of ministerial coaching on two levels: self and spiritual identity. The minister, through coaching, closes gaps in moral and ethical outcomes, as well as discerning, understanding, and applying their God-given spiritual identity in the execution of duties. Mastering the combination of natural morality and spiritual identity produce ministers as credible witnesses, worthy of being heard, followed, and restored to the ways of God.

If Christians win the world for Christ, it will only happen as ministers are exposed to and pursue self and spiritual soundness. The relevance of the Church is waning. Coaching is an approach to overturn the downward spiral and restore reverence and respect to ministers, the Church, and God.

Keywords: Minister, Fivefold Ministry, Coaching, T.R.M., Integrity, Leader Development

Servant-Leadership: A Remedy for Racism in America

Servant-Leadership:A Remedy for Racism in America

Robert Joseph Cruz | 2022

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This manuscript offers servant-leadership theory as an approach to healing America of racism. The project presents a critical social study on servant-leadership and how it provides solutions. The thesis of this manuscript is servant-leadership is a remedy for racism in America. The author examines Robert K. Greenleaf’s servant-leadership theory and extrapolates theory concepts that reveal relevant answers to begin the healing process. Greenleaf’s best test is a force to be recognized and adopted. Also, the author highlights contemporary servant-leader scholars who help advance Greenleaf’s theory. The scholars contribute servant-leader characteristics and a theoretical model as practical tools to feature as further evidence and support for servant-leadership implementation. The author will examine racism as it exists in various institutional cultures. Racism is a physical, mental, and emotional abuse of humanity. It is a sin and disease that permeates all American cultures of influence. Select evidence of the day presents to support racism’s existence and explain its birth. Moreover, current servant-leader examples demonstrate how servant-leadership is the most potent leadership style today.

The manuscript concludes with powerful temporal and eternal remedies to consider. A function of servant-leadership is to heal the human condition, which suffers from racism. It is a new leadership approach for most contemporary leaders, but it serves as a viable option to address what ails our nation today. This manuscript aims to serve first and assist servant-leaders, leaders, and followers in any institution, organization, society, or community. A closing remark for all Americans, we must do better. Servant-leadership helps us to do better.

Keywords: servant-leadership, serve first, racism, slavery, servant-leadership characteristics, servant-leadership theoretical model, cultures of influence

Servant Leadership: A Paradoxical Truth

Servant Leadership: A Paradoxical Truth

Tommy Smith | 2023

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Leadership is a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals aspiring to achieve a common objective. The motto of Regent University “Christian Leadership to Change the World” is fundamental to all who aspire to become leaders in a globally competitive environment. However, the process begins with followers who are teachable and willing to serve for the greater good. The leadership process involves both leaders and followers. Servant leaders prioritize the needs of followers instead of their own self-interests while emphasizing follower development and training (Northouse, 2016). Training has been an integral factor for transforming individuals and developing followers into effective leaders. The servant leadership approach offers a unique perspective—a paradox—runs counter to common sense. However, historical lessons and personal insights are shared based on past achievements and future expectations (New Beginnings).

Since leadership is an interactive endeavor mostly shaped by narrative, one of the primary ways in which leaders shape reality is through storytelling (Johnson & Hackman, 2018). The storytelling technique guides the reader through each chapter utilizing three methods: determination, reassurance, and inspirational messages (Baldoni, 2003). Despite challenges along the journey, effective servant leaders exercise genuine care to overcome obstacles and ensure other peoples’ needs are satisfied. Interestingly, followers who desire servant leadership are more likely to become servant leaders themselves. Whether an individual is called to teach, to preach, or to simply serve; servant leaders can significantly influence a group of individuals to achieve a common goal!

Keywords: Servant leadership, Storytelling, Determination, Reassurance, Inspirational Messages

NO FAULT

NO FAULT – New Opportunities for Amazing Unusual Leadership Transformation

Porsha M. Stubbs | 2023

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Leadership1 in context continues to influence and support individuals through its evolving stage while emphasizing the importance of values in goals. A clear example was modeled during the pandemic as people were thrust into leadership to survive. Socially, the events produced trauma at its highest level. However, the principles based on the need required addressing and healing, which at various intervals resulted inNew Opportunities for Amazing, Unusual Leadership Transformation (NO FAULT).

The manuscript offers a personal journey of and story in leadership from the perspective of religion, business, politics, and personal (family life). Each chapter is duplicitous in demonstrating that an individual is born or made a leader due to environment. Succinctly, the manuscript demonstrates the impactedness through demonstrations of resilience and reliance on God and faith through interdependence amid retooling the challenges of trials, trauma, and triumph, acting as conduits while pursuing opportunities to improve followership capacities amidst leadership transformation.

Simultaneously, the manuscript encapsulated certain aspects of servant leadership, including scenarios and lessons in moral fortitude. Each example indicates that we can choose to win or fail unless the Holy Spirit guides us as circumstances change, and the power and presence of God are vital to our success. In chapter 10:44, Mark2 states, “… and whoever wants to be first must be servant of all”.

Concluding that purposeful leadership impartation entails grace when conflated with the valiums of love and the “3desire to serve first”. Subservient to this grace commits one to listen, being aware, stewards, integral, humble, empathetic, healers, community builders, influencers, foretellers, conceptualizers, and growth conduits. For such, Jude 1:25 said, “Look, continuously to him who can ensure that you never fail and that you remain faultless in all things.”

Keywords: Environment, Grace, Leadership, Love, Purpose, Servant Leadership, Transformation

1 (Northouse, 2019, 8th Ed.)
2 (Bible, The., KJV & AMP, 1987)
3 (Greenleaf, 1991, 2008)

Remember the Poor: Ministry Principles for Serving Communities of Need

Remember the Poor: Ministry Principles for Serving Communities of Need

Stephen Trainer | 2023

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Jesus calls the church and its disciples to remember the poor. He prioritizes care for the marginalized and downtrodden. The upside-down king of an upside-down kingdom, Jesus said that the first will be last, the last will be first, and whatever we do to serve the least we do for him. Still, ministering to the poor in ways that are sustainable and that preserve the dignity of those in need requires wisdom, tact, and experience.

There are plenty of situations that you might encounter when leading ministry in communities of need that just didn’t come up in a textbook. That’s a part of leadership – being able to respond to the unforeseen. Many other texts will give you some practical tools in addition to theory, but I found that there are far fewer resources for people specifically called to serve in communities of need. Marginalized, forgotten, impoverished communities. The kind of communities we are warned to avoid, but that Jesus loves and died to save.

Because God had given his people a message of hope and commissioned them to take it to the ends of the earth, he must be calling people to the hard places, but we will often be unprepared for the things we encounter when we get there. This book details a series of leadership principles specific to the marginalized context, serving the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind.They were fashioned by the Graffiti Network family of ministries as they served the hard places of New York City for nearly five decades and are here wrapped in stories and experiences we’ve seen first-hand that illustrate their value. My hope is that this book provides you with the same tools that allowed our ministry to impact a lot of lives in a positive and redemptive way.

Grace to Stand: Leading with Excellence and Grace

Grace to Stand: Leading with Excellence and Grace

Cora Walden | 2023

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Although a leader’s ability to lead requires many positive attributes, God’s Grace is the companionship that keeps the mind perfect, peace to choose from, the wisdom that one could never advance in a normal state. This manuscript examines a leadership model that explains how effective leadership enhances future leadership foundations through applying God’s grace, His daily renewed strength. In development and study, grace will aid in demonstrating humble behaviors and promote more effective leaders of future innovation. This manuscript offers essential insights into how and when the application of God’s Grace is foundational in fostering leadership innovation to advance the leadership perspective for Unique leadership and followership. Each chapter offers outcomes to impact how leadership requires the ability to stand in adversity. The call to lead requires tenacity to win through the graceful lens that leaves one standing and leading with excellence and Grace. Courage through grace strengthens character to promote integrity, transparency, empathy, humility, strong values, compassion, kindness, emotional intelligence, and honesty. God’s Grace is inspiring and anchors the Leader to stand firm. Leading with excellence and grace is imperative to the influential leader’s purpose and uniqueness. Providing answers by applying God’s grace and the direction of His voice through leadership literature is the tone of the book manuscript, promoting leadership excellence, purpose, courage, and the ability for the leader to model grace, remaining true to their authentic self..” James 4:16 encourage the acceptance of God’s grace, “And He gives more grace not to the one who thinks he deserves it, but to the humble (KJV). And John 1:16 declares that our strength comes from grace continually poured out among us” (NKJV). The leadership strategies revealed conveys a plan and application to stand through grace that sustains the leader to dominate their destiny in the most moral outcome. The framework, schedule, and design to realign the profound purpose and innovation predestine for a Unique leadership process require a commitment to remain teachable from the lens of a student that God’s grace and excellence will sustain the leader to accomplish their ordained purpose.

Keywords: Grace, Unique Leadership, Purpose, and Innovation