For over 35 years Bobb Biehl has been consulting with and for many of America’s greatest leaders. Available here are nine of his best works, covering a wide range of his knowledge and experience in leadership, as well as personal and spiritual growth. From key insights into leading small and large groups alike, to advice about individual growth as a leader and a Christian—Biehl covers a multitude of subjects relevant to daily life. His insights aren’t just for pastors, but are accessibly written for anyone who wants to grow as a leader and disciple.
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This book contains the 101 insights Bobb Biehl has turned to most frequently over his 35 year career as an executive mentor. Everyone at some point is called to be a leader. The principles contained in this book are applicable to any Christian’s life.
Leading with Confidence is Bobb Biehl’s time-tested guidebook to 30 essential leadership areas. Biehl covers topics such as coping with change, depression, failure, fatigue, and pressure. He shares insight into developing skills such as asking, dreaming, goal setting, prioritizing, risk taking, influencing, money managing, personal organization, problem solving, decision making, and communicating, as well as difficult subjects like how to be more effective at delegating, firing, reporting, team building, people building, recruiting, master planning, and motivating.
Leading With Confidence has been a very practical aid in my work in Eastern Europe for over 25 years. It is still important now as a member of a global church movements team. After the Bible, it has been the most helpful book I have used over the years.
—Virgil Anderson, vicepresident of global church movements, Campus Crusade for Christ International
If you would like to be a mentor, or find a mentor, but don’t know where to start, Bobb Biehl’s book is an excellent place to start. Biehl explains clearly what mentors do and do not do, the nature of the mentor and protege relationship, the most common roadblocks to effective mentoring, and much more.
Mentoring: Confidence in Finding a Mentor and Becoming One brings a totally new level of clarity to the practical aspects of mentoring.
—Josh McDowell, author and speaker, Josh McDowell Ministry
Bobb Biehl provides a framework for planning that members at every level of an organization can understand, regardless of their individual backgrounds. Biehl’s one simple process applies to large and small groups, and has been tested in hundreds of organizations.
The Strategic Planning process was for us the most important step in launching our drive for excellence. A dozen years and four revisions later, it’s still our lighthouse.
—Ed Morgan, president, The Bowery Mission and Kids With a Promise
Why You Do What You Do is the product of more than 40,000 hours of behind-the-scenes experience with some of the finest, emotionally healthy leaders of our generation. Bobb Biehl outlines model developed to maximize healthy people who have left a few emotional mysteries unanswered.
This is the fastest tool I’ve ever seen for getting right to the heart of the really emotional issues, a profoundly simple understanding of both problems and solutions—in lay terms.
—Steve Arterburn, host, New Life Live
If you are considering serving on a board, are already on a board, or are leading a board, Boardroom Confidence is a proven tool that can help you and your board serve confidently and effectively.
Boardroom Confidence has removed a lot of the ‘practical mist’ that so often surrounds the boardroom experience. I highly recommend it!
—Robert Lewis, creator and presenter, Men’s Fraternity, Little Rock, Arkansas
Ted Engstrom (1916–2006) was the head of Youth for Christ and Word Vision International. He was best known for helping evangelical para-church ministries apply business financial principles to their ministry organizations. He authored The Making of a Christian Leader: How To Develop Management and Human Relations Skills, Integrity: Character from the Inside Out, and coauthor of The Pursuit of Excellence.
Do you have the natural energy and enthusiasm you would like to have on a day-to-day basis? In Dreaming Big, Bobb Biehl argues that natural energy for the human being comes from having a clearly defined life dream. Biehl takes the reader step by step through the process of defining and redefining your life dream. Dreaming Big also serves as a great tool to help your entire team tap into its own energy.
Knowing a little about dreaming big, I have never seen such an organized approach to following your heart and your life dream.
—Rich DeVos, cofounder, AMWAY Corporation
Dream a big dream! Now, grab a pen and paper and Bobb Biehl and Paul Swets will walk you through a life-altering process in their energizing and inspiring bookDreaming Big! A must-read for those ready to shift their ‘inner-drive’ into gear.
—Dan T. Cathy, president and COO, Chik-fil-a
Paul Swets received his PhD from the University of Michigan. He is the author of Multiply Happiness: Tools for Friendship, Connection, Purpose, and Hope, The Art of Talking So That People Will Listen: Getting Through to Family, Friends & Business Associates, and The Art of Talking with Your Teenager.
Bobb Biehl provides counsel on how to find the right person to marry—and how to avoid marrying the wrong person! Formerly titled Getting to Really Know Your Life Mate to Be, this book provides 250 fun, thought provoking questions that address seven essential areas of life, and will help you know more deeply the person you intend to marry.
Cheryl Biehl is the wife of Bobb Biehl. She has coauthored multiple books with him including Pre-Marriage Questions: Getting to “Really Know” Your Life-Mate-To-Be, How To Get Engaged: Questions to ask Before you get Engaged to be Married, and Anniversary Questions: Keeping Your Marriage Healthy and Sizzling.
Bobb Biehl is an executive mentor who has spent much of his life serving on boards of directors, including Jesus People International, and Focus on the Family. He graduated from Michigan State University with a BA in Psychology in 1964. He earned his MA in counseling from Michigan State in 1966. He married his wife Cheryl in 1964, and resides with her in Scottsdale, Arizona.