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BOOKS to help you COACH well
- 50 Top Tools for Coaching: A Complete Toolkit for Developing and Empowering People
- The 4 Greatest Coaching Conversations
- The 7 Laws of Coaching
- Appreciative Coaching: A Positive Process for Change
- Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change
- Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination
- Appreciative Inquiry Handbook: For Leaders of Change
- The Appreciative Inquiry Summit: A Practitioner's Guide for Leading Large-Group Change
- Appreciative Team Building: Positive Questions to Bring Out the Best of Your Team
- The Art of Coaching Clergy: A Handbook for Clergy, Church Leaders, and Coaches
- The Art of Coaching Teams
- The Art of Executive Coaching: Secrets to Unlock Leadership Performance
- Ask Powerful Questions: Create Conversations that Matter
- Becoming an Exceptional Executive Coach
- The Book of Coaching for Extraordinary Coaches
- Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry
- Change Your Questions, Change Your Church: How to Lead with Powerful Questions
- Change Your Questions, Change Your Life: 12 Powerful Tools for Leadership, Coaching, and Life
- Co-Active Coaching, Forth Edition: The Proven Framework for Transformative Conversations at Work and in Life
- A Coach Approach to Leadership: Enhancing Performance, Empowering Others
- Coach: Coaching for Business Performance
- The COACH Model for Christian Leaders
- Coach the Person, Not the Problem: A Guide to Reflective Inquiry
- Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others
- Coaching for Leadership
- Coaching in Organizations
- Coaching Questions: A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills
- The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More and Change the Way You Lead Forever
- Coaching Hacks
- The Coaching Mindset: 8 Ways to Think Like a Coach
- Coaching for Performance Fifth Edition: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership
- The Coaching Questions Handbook: 150 Powerful Questions for Life Coaching and Personal Growth
- The Completely Revised Handbook of Coaching: A Developmental Approach
- Conversations Worth Having
- The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations into Breakthroughs
- Effective Coaching
- Effective Group Coaching
- Executive Coaching for Results
- Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart
- The Heart of Coaching: Using Transformational Coaching to Create a High Performance Coaching Culture
- The Heart of Laser-focused Coaching: A Revolutionary Approach to Masterful Coaching
- Helping People Change
- Humble Inquiry
- Innovations in Leadership Coaching
- The Language of Life and Business Coaching
- Leadership Coaching: The Disciplines, Skills, and Heart of a Christian Coach
- Leadership Team Coaching
- Leadership Team Coaching in Practice: Case Studies in Developing High-Performing Teams
- The Life Coaching Handbook: Everything You Need to Be an Effective Life Coach
- Masterful Coaching
- Ministry 3.0: How Today's Church Leaders are Using Coaching to Transform Ministry
- On Becoming a Leadership Coach: A Holistic Approach to Leadership Excellence
- The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change
- The Practitioner's Handbook of Team Coaching
- Professional Coaching Competencies: The Complete Guide
- Professional Coaching: Principles and Practice
- Quantum Coaching Questions
- The Team Coaching Toolkit
- The Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry
- Thriving in the Fire: Coaching the Conflicts of Change
- Transformissional Coaching
- Unlocking Potential: 7 Coaching Skills That Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations
BOOKS to help you COMMUNICATE well
RECOMMENDATIONS (A-L)
- 500 Social Media Marketing Tips
- Brand Storytelling
- Branded: Sharing Jesus in a Consumer Culture
- Branding Faith
- Brave Talk
- Brief: Make a Bigger Impact by Saying Less
- Building a Story Brand
- Changing the Conversation: 17 Principles of Conflict Resolution
- Church Marketing 101
- Click 2 Save
- Communication in the Church
- Compelling Conversations
- Conflict Mastery
- Content Rules
- Conversation Tactics
- Conversations for Change
- Conversations Worth Having
- Crucial Accountability
- Crucial Conversations
- Difficult Conversations
- Effective Virtual Conversations
- Everybody Writes
- Everyone Communicates, Few Connect
- Everyone is an Influencer
- Fierce Conversations
- From Social Media to Social Ministry
- HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict
- HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations
- How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work
- How to Deliver a TED Talk
- How to Design and Teach Workshops that Work Every Time
- Lead With a Story
RECOMMENDATIONS (M-Z)
- Made to Stick
- Make Your Idea Matter
- Making Conversation
- Marketing for Dummies
- Marketing Made Simple
- Marketing Plan Handbook
- Master Presenter
- Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose
- On Communication
- One Hour Content Plan
- Presenting Virtually
- Problogger
- Rethink Communication
- Six Strategies for Effective Church Communications
- Social Media Marketing for Dummies
- Sticky Branding
- The Connected Church
- The Digital Cathedral
- The Discomfort Zone
- The Exceptional Presenter
- The Exceptional Presenter Goes Virtual
- The Lost Art of Listening
- The Pin Drop Principle
- The Power of Visual Storytelling
- The Skilled Facilitator
- The Story Advantage
- The Storyteller's Secret
- Thriving Through Ministry Conflict: A Parable on How Resistance Can Be Your Ally
- Writing for the Web
BOOKS to help you CONNECT people at and beyond church
RECOMMENDATIONS (A-L)
- Alone Together
- Aways On
- Appreciative Team Building
- Being Called to Change
- Becoming a Welcoming Church
- Beyond Church Walls
- Beyond the First Visit
- B.L.E.S.S.
- Blessed Connections
- Boomerang
- Church Greeters 101
- Connecting Like Jesus
- Extraordinary Hospitality
- First Impressions: Creating Wow Experiences in Your Church
- Group Glue
- Groups that Thrive
- Hospitality Ministry
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RECOMMENDATIONS (M-Z)
- Neighborhood Church
- People are the Mission
- Radical Welcome
- Reciprocal Church
- Reclaiming Conversation
- Retreats That Work
- Secrets of a Secret Shopper: Reaching and Keeping Church Guests
- The Art of Convening
- The Art of Gathering
- The Art of Neighboring
- The Comeback Effect
- The Neighboring Church
- The New Parish
- Visiting Church Online
- We Want You Here
- Wide Welcome
BOOKS to help people GIVE generously & SERVE daily
RECOMMENDATIONS (A-L)
- A Spirituality of Fundraising
- Abundance
- Ask, Thank, Tell
- Beyond the Offering Plate
- Connect: How to Double Your Number of Volunteers
- Contagious Generosity
- Embracing Stewardship
- Fusion: Turning First-time Guests into Fully Engaged Members
- Generosity, Stewardship, and Abundance
- Giving to God
- God and Your Stuff
- Imagining Abundance
- Not Your Parent's Offering Plate
RECOMMENDATIONS (M-Z)
- Maximize
- New Life Through Shared Ministry
- One-Minute Stewardship
- Passing the Plate
- Smart Volunteer Management
- The Coming Revolution in Church Economics
- The Complete Volunteer Management Handbook
- The Equipping Church
- The Equipping Church Guidebook
- The New Breed
- The Other 80 Percent
- The Volunteer Church
- The Volunteer Effect
- Stewardship for Vital Congregations
- Volunteer Engagement 2.0
- Whose Offering Plate Is It?
- Your Volunteers
BOOKS to help people GROW vibrant faith
RECOMMENDATIONS (A-L)
- A Royal "Waste" of Time
- A Spirituality of Living
- Being the Presence of Christ
- Beloved
- Called by God to Serve
- Called
- Calling All Years Good
- Callings
- Celebration of Disciple
- Church+Home
- Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals
- Connecting Church and Home
- Creating a Life With God
- Creating Holy Spaces
- Daly Texts
- Everything is Sacred
- Faith Formation 4.0
- Faith Formation in a Secular Age
- Faith Formation With a New Generation
- Faith Forming Faith
- Faithful Families
- Families and Faith
- Families at the Center of Faith Formation
- Family-Based Youth Ministry
- Grateful
- Holding Your Family Together
- Holy Conversation
- Holy Work with Children
- How to Read the Bible Book by Book
- How to Read the Bible for All its Worth
- Learning to Pray Again
- Liturgy of the Ordinary
- Longing for God
RECOMMENDATIONS (M-Z)
- Jesus-Centered Youth Ministry
- Making Sense of the Bible
- Making Sense of Scripture
- Recalibrate: A New Measure for Family Ministry
- Power Surge
- Sacred Pathways
- Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes
- Saying No to Say Yes
- Seamless Faith
- Shaping Spiritual Leaders
- Souls in Transition
- Spiritual Disciplines Handbook
- Spiritual Discovery
- Spiritual Practices
- Sticky Faith
- Teaching that Changes Lives
- Teaching that Makes a Difference
- Teaching through the Art of Storytelling
- Tell it Like it Is: Reclaiming the Practice of Testimony
- The Caring Congregation
- The Church as a Learning Community
- The Common Rule
- The Faith of Leap
- The Practicing Congregation
- The Scattering
- The Seasons of Adult Faith Formation
- The Soul of Discernment
- The Spirit and Culture of Youth Ministry
- The Sticky Faith Guide for Your Family
- The Stories We Live
- Transformational discipleship
- Transforming Worship
- Traveling Mercies
- We Make the Road By Walking
- Whose Got Time?
- Worship Frames
- Worship Matters
- You Are What You Love
BOOKS to help people LEAD well
RECOMMENDATIONS (A-L)
- The 7-Minute Productivity Solution: How to Manage Your Schedule, Overcome Distraction and Achieve the Results You Want
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- 10 Leadership Virtues for Disruptive Times: Coaching Your Team Through Immense Change and Challenge
- A Failure of Nerve
- Another Way: Living and Leading Change on Purpose
- Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets
- Canoeing the Mountains
- Confident Leader
- Dare to Lead
- Death By Meeting
- Deep Influence
- Flex
- Flux
- Great Teams
- HBR Guide to Making Every Meeting Matter
- High Impact Teams
- High-Impact Tools for Teams
- How to Lead When You Don't Know Where You're Going
- Leading Change
- Leading With Grit
- Leading With Questions
- Learning to Lead
- Let's Stop Meeting Like This
- Listen Well, Lead Better
RECOMMENDATIONS (M-Z)
- Meeting Design
- On Becoming a Leader
- Opportunity Leadership: Stop Planning and Start Getting Results
- Practicing Greatness
- Relational Leadership
- Rise Above the Lies
- Shepherd of Souls
- Strategic Doing
- Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership
- Teams That Thrive
- Teamwork and Teamplay
- Tempered Resilience
- The Aspiring Leader’s Guide to the Future: 9 Surprising Ways Leadership is Changing
- The Attributes
- The Catalyst Leader
- The Daily Drucker
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
- The Flourishing Pastor: Recovering the Lost Art of Shepherd Leadership
- The Ideal Team Player
- The Leader’s Journey
- The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
- The Relational Pastor
- The Sacred Valley
- The Secret of Teams
- The Self-Aware Leader
- The Truth about Leadership
- The Work of Leaders
- Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
- Unlocking Potential
- You Don't Need a Title to Be a Leader
BOOKS to help people LIVE well
RECOMMENDATIONS (A-L)
- At Your Best
- Be the Switch
- Becoming a Life Change Artist
- Better Than Before
- Church Leadership Essentials
- Church Leadership
- Crafting a Rule of Life
- Design Your Day
- Designing Your Life
- Disrupt You!
- Disrupt Yourself
- Do What You Are
- Entrepreneurial You
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
- Flourishing in Ministry
- Liturgy of the ordinary
- Living Into Community
RECOMMENDATIONS (M-Z)
- Reinventing You
- Reinvention Roadmap
- Sabbath: Finding Res, and Delight in our Busy Lives
- Sabbath as Resistance
- See Do Repeat: The Practice of Entrepreneurship
- Shift Your Thinking
- Simple Habits for Complex Times
- Start Finishing
- Start Less, Finish More
- Tending to the Holy
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- The Art of Rest
- The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
- The Rewired Life Workbook
- The Right Questions
- The Unhurried Life
- Thriving in the Second Chair
- Work Clean
BOOKS to help people MANAGE well
RECOMMENDATIONS (A-L)
- Beyond Measure
- Business Made Simple
- Deep Work
- Deliberate Simplicity
- Effectiveness By the Numbers
- Execute Your Vision
- Execution is the Strategy
- Free to Focus
- Governance and Ministry
- Lessons from the Church Boardroom
RECOMMENDATIONS (M-Z)
- Make Your Bed
- Management Tips
- Managing Difficult People
- Managing Leadership Anxiety
- Managing Oneself
- Managing Polarities in Congregations
- Managing Transitions
- Measure What Matters
- Measuring Success
- Ministry and Money
- Ministry in the Digital Age
- Mobilizing Congregations
- Moments of Impact
- Multiplying Missional Leaders
- Performance Conversations
- Piloting Church
- Pivot
- Reinventing Your Board
- Six Simple Rules
- Smart Church Management
- Smart Church Staff Evaluations
- Streamline
- Structured for Mission
- The 7-Minute Productivity Solution
- The Business of the Church
- The Church Money Manual
- The Elephant in the Boardroom
- The One Thing
- The Organizational Alignment Handbook
- The Power of Habit
- The Progress Principle
- The Virtual Assistant Solution
- Vital Signs
BOOKS to help you REINVENT your future
RECOMMENDATIONS (A-L)
- Advance Strategic Planning
- Agile Engagement
- Agility Shift
- Analog Church
- Be Mean about the Vision
- Beyond Maintenance to Mission
- Beyond the Idea
- Beyond the Prototype
- Black Box Thinking
- Building the Bridge as You Walk on It
- By Design or Default
- Change
- Change: How Organizations Achieve Hard to Imagine Results in Uncertain and Volatile Times
- Change and Conflict in Your Congregation
- Change the Culture, Change the Game
- Change Your Church for Good
- Changing the Conversation
- Charting Change
- Choosing Change
- Church Revitalization Checklist
- Church Transfusion
- Church Unique
- Clarity First
- Cracking Creativity
- Cracking Your Church's Culture
- Creating Your Church's Culture
- Discerning God's Will Together
- Discerning Your Congregation's Future
- Disruption
- Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization
- Doing the Math of Mission
- Dream Big, Think Small
- Everywhere You Look
- Holy Conversations
- How to Thrive in Chaos
- Kingdom Innovation for a Brave New World
- Leveling the Church
RECOMMENDATIONS (M-Z)
- Making Shifts without Making Waves
- Making the Shift Field Guide
- Mapping Innovation
- Memories, Hopes, and Conversations
- Missional Renaissance
- Missional Worship, Worshipful Mission
- Navigating the Future
- Nine Marks of a Healthy Church
- Open Source Church
- Paid to Think
- Pursuing God's Will Together
- Quietly Courageous
- Re: Vision
- Recreating the Church
- Reframation
- Reframing Hope
- Reframing Organizations
- Reimagining Collaboration
- Renew
- Sailboat Church
- Shift 2.0
- Shift: Three Big Moves for the 21st Century Church
- Start This Stop That
- Strategic Planning: A Pragmatic Guide
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard
- Ten Types of Innovation
- The Agile Church
- The Anticipatory Organization
- The Creativity Leap
- The Five Faces of Genius
- The Five Most Important Questions
- The Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations
- The Four Lenses of Innovation
- The Gathered and Scattered Church
- The Kingdom Connected
- The Power of Asset-Mapping
- The Power of Moments
- The Post-Quarantine Church
- The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
- The Road to Better Habits
- The Shaping of Things to Come
- The Strategy Visioning Workshop Journal
- Thriving Communities
- Transformational Church
- Transforming Congregational Culture
- What Got You Here Won't Get You There
- Whole Church: Leading from Fragmentation to Engagement
BOOKS to help you lead SMALL GROUP ministries
RECOMMENDATIONS (A-L)
- 99 Thoughts for Small Group Leaders
- Tips for Rookies & Veterans on Leading Youth Ministry Small Groups
- Activate: An Entirely New Approach to Small Groups
- The Big Book on Small Groups
- Building a Life-Changing Small Group Ministry: A Strategic Guide for Leading Group Life in Your Church
- Coaching Life-Changing Small Group Leaders: A Comprehensive Guide for Developing Leaders of Groups and Teams
- Creating: Five Keys to Building a Thriving Small Group Culture
- Creating Community, Revised & Updated Edition: Five Keys to Building a Thriving Small Group Culture
- Creating Community, Revised & Updated Edition: Five Keys to Building a Thriving Small Group Culture
- The Essential Guide for Small Group Leaders
- Group Dynamics: Basics and Pragmatics for Practitioners
- Groups that Thrive: 8 Surprising Discoveries About Life-Giving Small Groups
- How to Lead Small Groups
- Lead Small: Five Big Ideas Every Small Group Leader Needs to Know
RECOMMENDATIONS (M-Z)
- Small-Group Leader’s Quick Guide to (Almost) Everything
- Small Group Ministry Volunteer Handbook
- Small Groups for the Rest of Us: How to Design Your Small Groups System to Reach the Fringes
- Leading Small Groups: How to Gather, Launch, Lead, and Multiply Your Small Group
- Leading Small Groups That Thrive: Five Shifts to Take Your Group to the Next Level
- Leading Small Groups with Purpose: Everything You Need to Lead a Healthy Group
- Making Small Groups Work: What Every Small Group Leader Needs to Know
- Planning Small Groups with Purpose: A Field-Tested Guide to Design and Grow Your Ministry
- Simple Small Groups: A User-Friendly Guide for Small Group Leader
- Small Groups, Big Impact
- Small Groups with Purpose: How to Create Healthy Communities
- Vibrant Small Groups: A 5-Step Process to Create a Ministry That Fits Your Church
Downloads to Support Your Coaching Efforts
RECOMMENDATIONS (A-L)
- 16 Personalities (free Myers-Briggs assessment with detailed results)
- 6 Types of Working Genius (tool for selecting and assigning people to tasks)
- Clifton Strengths (Strengthsfinder assessment to discover your talent DNA)
- Dependable Strengths (discover your pattern of strengths)
- DISC (discover your leadership style)
- Emotional Intelligence (measures 5 key emotional intelligence traits)
- Enneagram (offers assessment, training and resources)
- Five Love Languages (learn your love language; use it to strengthen relationships)
- Harrison (tools for recruiting, developing, and engaging talent)
- Intercultural Development Inventory (assess capacities for building cultural competencies)
- i Opt (tool for individual and organizational improvement)
- Leadership Practices Inventory (learn about and assess core leadership practices)
- Learning Style Tests & Inventories (summary of learning styles assessments)
- mCore (discover your motivational blueprint)
- Spiritual Types Inventory (learn about your preference for engaging with God)
RECOMMENDATIONS (M-Z)
- Rocket Fuel
- See Do Repeat
- Traction
Great Blogs to Support Your Ministry Efforts
AGGREGATORS
COACH | Coaching individuals, Teams & Organizations
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COMMUNICATION, LEADERSHIP, STAFFING & ADMINISTRATION
- Brett Powell
- MinistryPass.com
- Russell Moore
- Tony Morgan Live
COMMUNICATION, LEADERSHIP, STAFFING & ADMINISTRATION
- Aspen Group
- Brett Powell
- Chemistry Staffing (staffing/supervision)
- MinistryPass.com
- Russell Moore
- Tony Morgan Live
- The Unstuck Group (becoming unstuck)
- Vanderbloemen (staffing/transitions)
COMMUNICATE | Marketing, Graphic Design & Social Media
- Church Marketing University
- Creative Bloq (tutorials, product reviews, buying guides)
- Design Week (graphics, product design, and branding projects)
- Visual Journal (images of graphic design, branding, and visual communication)
- Abduzeedo (design, illustration, photography)
- ID Identity Design (branding and identity design)
- It’s Nice That (well-curated mix of illustration and graphic design projects)
- Adobe Creative Cloud Blog (inspiring content, usage instructions, tutorials)
- SwissMiss (high-quality content for creative professionals)
- Adobe 99U (useful guides and tips on entrepreneurship to work-life balance)
CONNECT | Deepen Relationships & Hospitality
- Greg Atkinson (worship & first impressions)
- Growing Leaders (youth ministry)
- Mark Howell (small group ministry)
- Thom Rainer (ministry revitalization)
- Youth Cartel (youth ministry)
- YM Sidekick (youth ministry)
- Chuck Lawless
GIVE/SERVE | Increase Generosity & Stewardship; Equip Volunteers
Russell Moore –
Tony Morgan Live –
Brett Powell –
Thom Rainer –
- Greg Atkinson Worship Impressions and the First Impressions Conference.
Russell Moore –
Tony Morgan Live –
Brett Powell –
Thom Rainer –
GROW | Lifelong Faith Formation
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LEAD | Leading Yourself, Your Teams & Your Congregation
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- Kurt Bubna
- Brandon A. Cox
- Kevin DeYoung
- Peter Englert
- J.D. Greear
- Pastor Joe McKeever
- Thomas McDaniels
- Carey Nieuwhof
- Joshua Reich
- Rookie Preacher
- Charles Stone
- Rich Birch
- Dan Reiland
- ChurchLeaders.com
- Desiring God
- Outreach Magazine
- Pastors.com
LIVE WELL | Sabbath, Boundaries, Friends & Family
- Add
MANAGE WELL | Staffing , Supervision, Governance & Administration
- Chemistry Staffing (staffing/supervision)
- Vanderbloemen (staffing/transitions)
REINVENTION | Leading Change, Strategic Visioning
- Aspen Group
- Phil Cooke (reflections on culture)
- Joseph Lalonde (reflections on culture
- Ron Edmondson (improving ministry)
- Shawn Lovejoy
- The Unstuck Group (reinvention)
Podcasts to Worth Listening To
A-G
A-G
- Abduzeedo (design, illustration, photography)
- Adobe Creative Cloud Blog (inspiring content, usage instructions, tutorials)
- Adobe 99U (useful guides and tips on entrepreneurship to work-life balance)
- Carey Nieuwhof
- Church Marketing University (communication/marketing)
- Church Leadership
- Creative Bloq (tutorials, product reviews, buying guides)
- Design Week (graphics, product design, and branding projects)
- Desiring God
- ID Identity Design (branding and identity design)
- It’s Nice That (well-curated mix of illustration and graphic design projects)
- ChurchLeaders.com
- Desiring God
- Outreach Magazine
- Pastors.com
- Kurt Bubna
- Brandon A. Cox
- Kevin DeYoung
- Peter Englert
- J.D. Greear
- Pastor Joe McKeever
- Thomas McDaniels
- Carey Nieuwhof
- Joshua Reich
- Rookie Preacher
- Charles Stone
- Rich Birch
- Dan Reiland
A-G
- H-P
- Abduzeedo (design, illustration, photography)
- Adobe Creative Cloud Blog (inspiring content, usage instructions, tutorials)
- Adobe 99U (useful guides and tips on entrepreneurship to work-life balance)
- Church Marketing University (communication/marketing)
- Creative Bloq (tutorials, product reviews, buying guides)
- Design Week (graphics, product design, and branding projects)
- ID Identity Design (branding and identity design)
- It’s Nice That (well-curated mix of illustration and graphic design projects)
- Kurt Bubna
- Outreach Magazine
- Pastors
- Greg Atkinson Worship Impressions and the First Impressions Conference.
Ron Edmondson – As a consultant and coach, for almost 20 years Ron has helped thousands of leaders and organizations get better.
Russell Moore –
Tony Morgan Live –
Brett Powell –
Thom Rainer –
CONNECT
- Greg Atkinson (worship & first impressions)
- Growing Leaders (youth ministry)
- Mark Howell Live (small group ministry)
- Rookie Preacher
- SwissMiss (high-quality content for creative professionals)
- Thom Rainer (ministry revitalization)
- Youth Cartel (youth ministry)
- YM Sidekick (youth ministry)
- Chuck Lawless
- Visual Journal (images of graphic design, branding, and visual communication)
LIVE WELL
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DOWNLOADABLES
PDFs used or referred to during ACC-level and PCC-level training events
- COACH_8 Types of Coaching Questions
- COACH_9 Boxes Goal Setting Exercises
- COACH_25 Questions to Ask a Mentor
- COACH_50 Powerful Questions
- COACH_100 Powerful Questions
- COACH_Asking Powerful Questions
- COACH_Asset-Based Coaching Questions
- COACH_Clarifying Norms and Expectations
- COACH_Coaching Client Intake Form
- COACH_Coaching School Trainer Checklist
- COACH_Coaching Self-Assessment Form-1
- COACH_Crafting Powerful Questions
- COACH_Create New Awareness
- COACH_Develop Active Listening Skills
- COACH_Developing Your Coaching Presence
- COACH_Direct Communication Strategies
- COACH_Establishing Clear Boundaries
- COACH_Evoke New Awareness
- COACH_Facilitating GROW Sessions
- COACH_Helping Clients Gain New Awareness
- COACH_Helping Clients Prepare for Coaching
- COACH_ICF Code of Ethics
- COACH_Information About Your Ministry Setting
- COACH_List Sample Coaching Scenarios
- COACH_Mastering the Basic Agreement
- COACH_Mastering the Ongoing Agreement
- COACH_Metaphors to Describe Coaching
- COACH_Pre-work for Coaching Sessions
- COACH_Questions for Leaders About Coaching
- COACH_Release of Confidential Student Information
- COACH_Sample Coaching Intake Form-2
- COACH_Sample Coaching Models
- COACH_Sample Items to Include in a Coaching Log
- COACH_Sample Life Coaching Questions
- COACH_Sample Noms for Onsite Visits
- COACH_Sample Progress Report for Coaches
- COACH_Setting Expectations With Clients
- COACH_The 5 Step Coaching Model
- COACH_The Action-Priority Matrix
- COACH_Using the 5R Coaching Model
- COACH_Ways Churches Benefit from Coaching
- COACH_Welcome to Vibrant Faith Coaching School
- COACH_What Coaching Is and Isn't
RECOMMENDATIONS (A-L)
- 16 Personalities (free Myers-Briggs assessment with detailed results)
- 6 Types of Working Genius (tool for selecting and assigning people to tasks)
- Clifton Strengths (Strengthsfinder assessment to discover your talent DNA)
- Dependable Strengths (discover your pattern of strengths)
- DISC (discover your leadership style)
- Emotional Intelligence (measures 5 key emotional intelligence traits)
- Enneagram (offers assessment, training and resources)
- Five Love Languages (learn your love language; use it to strengthen relationships)
- Harrison (tools for recruiting, developing, and engaging talent)
- Intercultural Development Inventory (assess capacities for building cultural competencies)
- i Opt (tool for individual and organizational improvement)
- Leadership Practices Inventory (learn about and assess core leadership practices)
- Learning Style Tests & Inventories (summary of learning styles assessments)
- mCore (discover your motivational blueprint)
- Spiritual Types Inventory (learn about your preference for engaging with God)
RECOMMENDATIONS (M-Z)
YOUTUBE VIDEOS
- Coaching for Clergy (offers specific resources for pastors and church leaders)
- Coaching to Connect (Jim Merhaut, PCC, offers individual and leadership coaching)
- The Coaching Tools Company (tools to help equip coaching and manage clients)
- International Coaching Federation (the gold standard in coaching associations)
- Summit Coaching & Behavioral Consulting (Offers DISC assessment; mentor coaching)
- Vibrant Faith Ministries (provides coaching, training, consulting, and research services)
- The World Business & Executive Coaching Summit (great for continuing education and CEU credits)
YOUTUBE VIDEOS
- Know Your Why (Michael Jr)
- The Power of Vulnerability (Brene Brown)
- Start With Why (Simon Sinek)
- Tribal Leadership (David Logan)
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