Values-Driven Leadership: Discovering and Developing Your Core Values for Ministry
Overview
What are the core values of your ministry? Values-Driven Leadership is a pioneering work designed to help church and parachurch leaders understand the cutting-edge concept of organizational core values. Every ministry organization has a set of core values that guides what the ministry seeks to accomplish. Understanding these core values is key to a high-performing ministry.
In this revised edition, Aubrey Malphurs offers important insights on new research in the field of leadership and delineates techniques for their practical implementation. After exploring the concepts in Values-Driven Leadership, you’ll be able to take concrete steps to write your ministry’s values in a credo or value statement and focus in on your mission. This edition includes helpful discussion questions, core values audits, and even a readiness-for-change inventory to help you and your ministry identify areas in need of attention. This is a useful book for individuals, boards, committees, and leadership teams.
In the Logos edition, this volume is enhanced by amazing functionality. Scripture citations link directly to English translations, and important terms link to dictionaries, encyclopedias, and a wealth of other resources in your digital library. Perform powerful searches to find exactly what you’re looking for. Take the discussion with you using tablet and mobile apps. With Logos Bible Software, the most efficient and comprehensive research tools are in one place, so you get the most out of your study.
- Defines core values and explains how they impact ministry
- Offers techniques for integrating core values into the church
- Provides sample values and discussion questions
- You Can’t Live without Them: The Importance of Core Values
- What Are We Talking About? The Definition of Core Values
- What Drives You? The Discovery of Core Values
- Writing Your Values Credo: The Development of Core Values
- Moving Your Values from Paper to People: The Communication of Core Values
- Weaving New Values into the Congregational Fabric: The Implementation of Core Values
- How Not to Drop the Ball: The Preservation of Core Values
Top Highlights
“church’s core values as its constant, passionate, sacred core beliefs that drive its ministry.” (source)
“Finally, a vision focuses on the future; values look to the present or the past.” (source)
“First, a vision answers the question, What are we going to do?” (source)
“Second, an organization is vision focused and values driven.” (source)
“In Built to Last, James Collins and Jerry Porras address the ideal number of values that an organization should have from a marketplace perspective. They explain, ‘If you articulate more than five or six, there’s a good chance you’re not getting down to only the core essentials.’[5] They write, ‘Visionary companies tend to have only a few core values, usually between three and six. In fact, we found none of the visionary companies to have more than six core values, and most have less.’[6] Their findings agree with mine, contrary to Francis and Woodcock, who argue for at least twelve. This is why I limit the churches that I consult with to six actual and two aspirational values, and that may be stretching things. Less is better, and in the case of ministry values, less is core.” (source)
- Title: Values-Driven Leadership: Discovering and Developing Your Core Values for Ministry
- Author: Aubrey M. Malphurs
- Publisher: Baker
- Print Publication Date: 2004
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Church management; Values
- ISBNs: 9781441256461, 9780801065163, 080106516, 1441256466, 080106516X
- Resource ID: LLS:9781585580828
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T16:16:18Z