Empowering Leadership
How a Leadership Development Culture Builds Better Leaders Faster
- Church Leadership & Ministry
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Published: 2018
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Publisher's Description
A major problem in the local church today is lack of leadership. Simply put, we have more needs than we have leaders to meet those needs. So, how do we train better leaders faster? The truth is, very few churches really have a well-thought-out leadership development plan. Growth requires continually adding healthy new leaders, who carry the church culture forward and embody its core values. Everyone knows it, but how do we achieve it? In Empowering Leadership author and leadership consultant Michael Fletcher says leaders like this can't simply be bought, nor can they be hired from someone else's leadership assembly line. Developing leaders at every level, to create an environment that attracts potential leaders, and to build better leaders faster, an organization needs more than a pipeline. It needs a culture that develops leaders organically. Finding the right kind of leaders to guide your church on a path of continual growth comes out of keeping the right focus, and that focus is not just on the leaders. In fact, as Fletcher says, It isn't about the leader. It never was about the leader. It will never be about the leader. It will always and only be about Jesus and his people. It's about the people. True leadership development includes the often messy, but necessary, interaction of life upon life. So hiring pastors and key staff roles from within the church is the very best policy—people who "breathe" the culture of the church and who have helped create the culture you want to maintain. If your church or organization needs a good leadership development structure, then you're holding the right book. Empowering Leadership details Michael's greatest insights on how to build better leaders faster by creating a leadership development culture in your church or organization—naturally, organically, continually. Empower your church or organization through great leadership. This book will show you how!
Endorsements (15)
“Being an Ironman triathlete, Michael Fletcher knows that endurance is also the key to sustaining healthy spiritual leadership. With candid examples from his own experience, compelling insight into Scripture, and practical wisdom for leaders at every stage of development, Empowering Leadership instructs as well as inspires—highly recommended!”
“Michael reminds pastors that we need to do more than simply reach the people around us. We need to be raising up other leaders whose influence will go far beyond our own. This book made me excited all over again to help others become leaders who will make an impact beyond anything I could imagine!”
“We don’t need bigger crowds. We need an army of leaders to change the world. Michael Fletcher’s new work explains clearly how Manna Church has developed the culture and systems to not only deploy leaders in their church, but also to be sent as an army to change the world. Empowering Leadership is filled not just with principles but very workable practices based on experience.”
“We have all read books on leadership written by people who have not done what they urge others to do. Michael Fletcher is different. He has actually built the leadership culture he describes in this essential book. In Empowering Leadership, he gives us the hard-won lessons of his leadership life, and with them we can lead as Michael has led and change our generation in the process.”
“From church janitor to megachurch pastor, Michael has been God’s instrument to raise up countless ministry leaders from the house, for the house, for the world, and for God’s kingdom. This book is the story of how that happened and how God could use you in the same way. This could change everything for your church. Everything.”
“Michael Fletcher is at the top of the list when it comes to reproducing leaders. He’s one of the most strategic and focused leadership generators I know. In Empowering Leadership he reveals the paradigms and strategies he has used for decades to find, develop, and release leaders worldwide. If you’re involved in any aspect of leadership development, this is a book you need to read.”
“As I began to read Empowering Leadership, I couldn’t put it down. Michael has hit a grand slam home run! This book is thoroughly biblical and extremely practical at the same time. Michael is not a theoretician but a practitioner of church leadership. I have watched the church he leads grow and thrive even in the most difficult arena. You’ll be inspired, motivated, and informed about how to go to the next level. Thanks, Michael, for one of the best ministry leadership books in the kingdom.”
Dr. Chris Stephens
“Today we hear so much about the need for a church to have a leadership pipeline but so little about the culture necessary to produce more and better leaders. Michael Fletcher’s book will be an instant ‘must read’ for those who realize that improving their church’s leadership development culture is the only way they’ll see ‘more and better leaders’ produced across all their different ministries.”
“Michael Fletcher has been doing the stuff called leadership for nearly forty years. There’s no one I know who is better at making disciples, building leaders, and planting churches. Empowering Leadership is a practical textbook for anyone wanting to learn how to do the stuff that makes a kingdom impact.”
“In a world that pursues and celebrates large crowds, this book is a road map that draws us back to what really matters—creating cultures that develop great leaders. Michael is one of the most influential kingdom leaders of our generation, generation, and his voice is much needed right now. His wisdom has transformed the way I think and the way I lead. Every leader needs to read this long-awaited book with their team.”
“Empowering Leadership is the simple, profound, biblical solution to the nationwide leadership crisis. Michael shares his own journey and draws us into the right, hard work of taking those around us and developing them to their full potential. Otherwise known as discipleship.”
“My first thought after finishing Empowering Leadership was, This is now going to be my #1 recommended book on leader development. Pastor Michael Fletcher has clearly outlined a practical system for identifying, developing, and multiplying leaders at all levels.”
“In Empowering Leadership Michael shares the reasons why and how a church can turn laymen into leaders. It is a jam-packed goldmine of advice, tools, and insights that can propel you and your organization forward with fresh motivation and success.”
“As my friend, colleague, and coach, with all I have I can attest that Michael Fletcher loves two things: Jesus and His church. The ideas and principles contained in this book are simply the overflow of these loves. These are not merely hopeful ideas created by a theorist. These are principles learned by a leader of leaders over decades of prayer, study, trial, and failure. They are biblical and proven. If you want to see Jesus glorified by the church reaching the lost and raising up influencers in the world, I can testify from personal experience that this book is for you.”
“I’ve had the privilege of watching Michael Fletcher build solid leaders for nearly thirty years. The leadership culture he and his team build is easily transferable via the Upward Draft, Shoulder Tapping, and SERVE Model, just to name a few highlights from this book. I’m honored to endorse Michael, his leadership methodology, and Empowering Leadership.”
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