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Summit 2012 Web Launch

March 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

This week we announced the speaker line up for the 2012 Global Leadership Summit, and already the “buzz” is building. This may well be one of the strongest line ups ever presented at the Summit.

In announcing the line up, our national pastor Tim Schroeder and I sat down to discuss not only the background and relevance of each speaker, but more importantly how you as a leader can get the most out of each session. Check out our 20 minute GLS web launch by clicking the video window below.

Immediately following our conversation, we are pleased to feature a 20 minute coaching session by Summit favourite Patrick Lencioni.

I’d encourage you to watch this web launch with your team, and share it with others within your sphere of influence.

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How Leaders Create Forward Energy for Their Team

March 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Every leader knows that creating forward energy takes enormous, consistent effort. That’s because all of the natural forces of organizational life work against that kind of momentum.

That’s why effective leaders are relentless in their pursuit of opportunities to galvanize and catalyze forward energy for their teams.

One of those opportunities is on the horizon, and if you’re a church leader in Canada I’m urging you to take advantage.

On Thursday, March 22nd at 9:00 am local time (whatever time zone you’re in) The Leadership Centre Willow Creek Canada will launch the 2012 Global Leadership Summit season with the annual Web Launch.

This is a 20 minute kick off to the Summit season, and it’s a tremendous opportunity to get your team fired up and pointed in the same direction.

Even though the Summit is months away (October 18-19) effective leaders start preparing their teams early to leverage such a global event. This year The Global Leadership Summit is expected to impact more than 150,000 leaders in more than 70 countries, 450 sites, and more than 30 languages. Effective leaders know that you don’t just wander into an event of such an immense scale hoping something good will come of it.

To get the most out the Summit, effective leaders plan early.

In this web launch your team will learn about the faculty line up for this year’s event and will be coached on how best to leverage the Summit for their own leadership development. In addition you will also learn from Summit favorite Patrick Lencioni, as he provides an exclusive 20 minute leadership coaching session at the conclusion of the web launch.

To participate with your team simply follow the link provided below.

To fully leverage this web launch:

  1. Alert your team now to gather with you to view this together;
  2. Encourage your team to wear their ‘leaders hats’ as they view the web launch;
  3. Follow up with a team discussion on how your team might get the maximum mileage out of the Summit.

 

YOUR INVITATION TO THE
GLS 2012 WEB LAUNCH

 

Join The Leadership Centre Willow Creek Canada as we announce The Global Leadership Summit 2012 faculty line-up March 22, 2012 in HD. Available at 9am onward, this 20 minute presentation will feature TLCWCC Executive Director, Scott Cochrane and GLS 2011 Speaker, Tim Schroeder as they launch the GLS 2012 season.

JUST ADDED! We are pleased to announce that we are including an additional 20 minute session from Patrick Lencioni to equip you further from his teachings on vulnerability from last year’s Summit.

Mark your calendars now for 9am, March 22, 2012!

 growingleadership.com/summit

 

 

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Can You Name the Canadian Speaker at the 2012 Summit?

February 10, 2012 By 2 Comments

For the first time ever, a Canadian presenter will be taking centre stage in Chicago at the Global Leadership Summit.

Can you guess who it is?

We’re inviting you to guess the name of this presenter from the great white north. We’ll be drawing one winner from among the correct answers we receive, and that person will receive:

  • A FREE ticket to the 2012 Global Leadership Summit in Canada (any site)
  • The “Team Edition” DVD set of all presentations from the 2011 Global Leadership Summit
  • Total value; $400

Remember, the presenter could be from any arena of Canadian leadership, including:

  • The church
  • Politics
  • Sports
  • Social/Justice
  • Business
  • Government
  • The arts

We’ll draw the name of the winning entrant immediately following the March 16 webcast, where Bill Hybels and Jim Mellado will reveal the full Summit speaker lineup. We will notify the winner by email so please ensure your address is entered accurately.

To register for the webcast click here.

Submit your guess in the form below. You can enter as many times as you like.

Name:
Email Address:
Your guess on who the Canadian presenter will be at the 2012 Global Leadership Summit:

 

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The “Secret Sauce” That Turns Summit Learnings into Action

September 13, 2011 By 2 Comments

When it comes to an event like The Global Leadership Summit, it isn’t just about what you learn, it’s about what you do.

So then, how do you turn what you learn into concrete, positive action?

More importantly, if you bring a team to the Summit, how do you ensure that your team’s insights translate into action?

The critical ingredient that turns learning into action is processing. Processing is the “secret sauce” leaders use to leverage Summit learnings.

Summit learningsBut finding the time for such processing isn’t easy.

In my days as executive pastor of a large church it used to fall on me to conduct the post-Summit debriefing with our team. The goal was to capture fresh learnings, discuss applications to us individually and to our church, and to lay out tangible next steps.

But with the Summit taking place in the middle of summer back in those days, I knew that such processing couldn’t take place in August; there were too many teammates taking holidays. Early September was also out of the question because of fall start-up activities.

And so typically as the calendar started creeping toward Thanksgiving I would hastily call a meeting of those who attended the Summit, order some pizza, show a DVD of one of the sessions, toss out a couple of questions, and get back to work.

Very little of lasting value ever resulted from these gatherings.

This is why I was so intrigued to learn how The Global Leadership Summit has addressed this in its overseas locations.

From Great Britain to Australia to South Africa to Germany and everywhere in between, presenters of The Global Leadership Summit have begun to include process time within the Summit itself!

Imagine the impact when teams are provided a few minutes right in the Summit experience to turn to one another and discuss the impact of what they’ve been learning. Imagine how much more likely it would be to see these learnings translate into positive action.

Well, this year in Canada we will take a page from The Global Leadership Summit experiences around the world and will introduce a few such opportunities when we gather on September 29-30.

So come prepared to engage your team in the most robust, action-oriented Summit experience ever.

Because when it comes to an event like the Summit, it isn’t just about what you learn, it’s about what you do.

How do you process the learnings from the Summit with your team?

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My Least Favourite Moment at The Global Leadership Summit

September 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment

What is my least favourite moment at The Global Leadership Summit?

It’s the same moment every year. And every year I resolve to do whatever it takes to minimize the likelihood that it will recur.

It’s the moment as the Summit ends, when leaders throughout the auditorium, and in auditoriums across Canada, are pumped up, high-fiving each other…and then invariably they start talking about other leaders on their team they wish had attended.

I hate that moment.

And that moment leads to later moments where the leader who stayed home feels like an outsider as their fired-up teammates tell story after story of the impact of the Summit. New visions are born. New determinations to build the Kingdom are unleashed.

And there sits the lonely leader, the one who missed out.

This will be my final word on the subject. Don’t be that person. Don’t be the leader who missed out.

Instead, do whatever it takes to free up the time and resources necessary to participate at The Global Leadership Summit, September 29-30.

If you need one more reminder why, take 5 minutes and watch what happened last year.

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