Leadership Skills

Course Overview

Basic Leadership: Servant, Collaborative, and Visionary

This course introduces the student to the basic leadership skills necessary for a person in ministry in contemporary culture. The course covers the foundational concept of servant leadership, the goal of collaborative leadership, and the need for true entrepreneurial leadership.

A Deeper Look

From Dr. Derry Long

Thank you for your interest in the leadership course of the Equip program.

Everyone has a sphere of influence — and many leadership skills are transferable into other arenas of life, like family or work.

Over nine hours of the course, together we will investigate:

• The four elements in every leadership scenario that must be served;
• Crucial conversation skills to diffuse and use conflict;
• How to give your ideas a better chance of becoming reality by adding four elements that add critical mass;
• The five levels of friendship and the five responses from our relational network when we change significantly;
• How to build a healthy team looking at the examples of Jesus and Paul;
• Something I’m especially excited about — how to help those we care about thrive, in our family, our relationships, our church, and our workplace;
• The narrative of four prominent Bible characters to learn critical life-skills, like how to overcome burnout and discouragement from Elijah, how to face 5 areas of inadequacy like Moses, how to overcome the baggage of our history like Gideon, and how to gain credibility through overcoming failure, like Peter;
• And lastly, we will do a little exercise based on Jesus’ interaction with Bartimaeus, on how to discover and align your life with your “preferred future” in specific areas.

I believe we all yearn to grow and to live in a way that is meaningful and significant. Paul encouraged Timothy, who struggled with timidity that God’s intent was to help us become “. . .capable, EQUIPPED for every good work” (II Tim. 3:17, NASB).

Join me on this journey. I will look forward to it!