Discovering Your Leadership Style: The Power of Chemistry, Strategy and Spirituality

by David T. Olson

Publisher:

Inter-Varsity

, 2014

Overview

God can use your unique gifts, passions and personality to help you become a better leader. While personality inventories can help you understand your temperament, the model designed by leading church planter David Olson is designed to form fruitful Christian leadership.

Olson's model reveals how three factors—spirituality, chemistry and strategy—work together. The free online inventory that is a companion to this book takes just five minutes to complete, and the resulting report appears instantaneously.

When you take the inventory, you will also discover your leadership style. The six styles that shape our ministry are

The Sacred Leader

The Relational Leader

The Inspirational Leader

The Building Leader

The Mission Leader

The Imaginative Leader

The thirty short chapters of this book are ideal for individual reflection with questions for individual discovery and bonus online activities. The book also includes all the tools you need to take your ministry team through this assessment. They will lead you deeper into this robust model for Christian leadership.

Key Features

• Helps readers engage in an important journey of examination and introspection of their own leadership style
• Provides Christian leaders with a practical and easy-to-use method for developing into better and stronger leaders
• Enable leaders to better serve the church but also to take concrete steps, in concert with the Spirit, to refine their ministry stance

Contents

Section One: The Model

• A New Leadership Model
• Simple, Yet Deep
• What Makes Leadership Christian?
• Your Gifts, Passions and Personality
• Online Activity: Improving Team Dynamics

Section Two: Leadership Strength

• Love Changes Everything
• Love God: Strengthening Your Spirituality
• Love People: Strengthening Your Chemistry
• Love the World: Strengthening Your Strategy
• Love Wisdom: Strengthening Your Leadership
• Online Activity: Growing in Leadership Strength

Section Three: The Six Leadership Styles

• The Six Styles
• The Sacred Leader
• The Relational Leader
• The Inspirational Leader
• The Building Leader
• The Mission Leader
• The Imaginative Leader
• Online Activity: Mentoring and Coaching Other Leaders

Section Four: Deeper into the Six Styles

• The Six Styles and Spiritual Gifts
• The Six Styles and Personality Tests
• The Six Deep Needs of Leaders
• The Six Intelligences of Leaders
• The Six Styles of Churches and Christian Organizations
• Balanced Leaders Versus Focused Leaders
• Online Activity: Selecting Leaders

Section Five: Igniting Ministry Gifts in All Christians

• How God Loves Each Person Differently
• Working Together to Serve and Love
• Online Activity: A Passion to Serve - A Gift Assessment Tool

Praise for Discovering Your Leadership Style

Dave Olson has been a mentor, friend and more broadly an activist for healthy Christian leadership. His insights have been a blessing to me, and through this book he will be a blessing to many, many more. If you have a desire to increase your leadership influence and skills, this is a must-read.

Efrem Smith, president and CEO of World Impact Incorporated

Dave Olson has demonstrated leadership on many different levels and places in the church.... As a personal beneficiary of many of the principles outlined in this book, I highly recommend it for the ongoing development of pastors and church leaders.

Soong-Chan Rah, Professor of Church Growth and Evangelism, North Park Theological Seminary

Every leader who leads leaders will benefit from Dave Olson's great new book Discovering Your Leadership Style. Olson introduces a robust new tool for helping leaders maximize their natural leadership style. Additionally, he demonstrates how this new tool interacts with other commonly used personality and leadership instruments. The result is a whole new level of fascinating insight for leaders and those who lead them. Outstanding!

Steve Pike, director of church planting and development, Assemblies of God

Product Details

• Title: Discovering Your Leadership Style: The Power of Chemistry, Strategy and Spirituality
• Author: David T. Olson
• Publisher: Inter-Varsity
• Print Publication Date: 2014
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Pages: 204
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Christian leadership; Religion › Christian ministry--Pastoral resources
• ISBNs: 9780830895915, 9780830841134, 0830895914, 083084113X
• Resource ID: LLS:9780830895915
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:59:57Z

About David T. Olson

David T. Olson is a religious researcher, church-planting leader and leadership coach. For the past twenty years, he has served in various leadership capacities with the Evangelical Covenant Church. Dave is also the director of the American Church Research Project. His previous book is The American Church in Crisis. Dave and his wife, Shelly, live in Minneapolis.