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Alan Danielson and Triple-Threat Leadership
One of the essential keys to effective leadership is cranking up the heat on your core values and key practices. This weekend we had small groups coach and consultant Alan Danielson speak to our small group leaders about “Getting off the Couch” and being missional. For some time we’ve wanted to elevate this missional value in our groups and Alan totally helped us accomplish that goal. His passion for people without Christ and his deep belief for missional groups helped us raise the temperature of groups being on-mission with God. And our leaders totally got it. The comments shared by our leaders after his presentation were revealed a significantly heightened vision for impacting the community.
Monday was a great day as well. Alan presented his “Triple-Threat Leadership” workshop to our staff and helped us understand the non-negotiable components of vision, strategy, and relationships in the arena of leadership. His assessment pinpointed our unique leadership styles and Alan provided some valuable coaching in the process. It was a great launching pad for discussion as each member of our team reflected on our leadership default buttons and what we must do to move toward the center of effective leadership.
If you’re not familiar with Alan Danielson, check out his blog, ebook and assessment, or coaching and consulting. You’ll be challenged, encouraged, and stretched. It’s worth your time.
Speaker Text: Simultaneous Video & Transcript
So I just ran across a tool that I think has some pretty cool potential for ministry, business, and media in general. It’s called “Speaker Text” and it allows you to watch a video and a transcript of the video simultaneously. Not only that, you can jump to anywhere in the video by simply clicking on the appropriate place in the text. You can also copy a piece of the text, drop it in a blog post, and turn it into a link that takes readers directly to that part of the video. Check out this demo from SpeakerText.com.
Question: How could you use Speaker Text in your setting?
Creativity, Doritos, and Super Bowl XLIV
In September, Doritos announced the fourth annual “Crash the Super Bowl” challenge in which they would air three “user generated” commercials during Superbowl XLIV. After more than 4,000 entries, the challenge has been narrowed to six finalists. And some serious prize money is at stake. One of the creative finalists is Erwin McManus, pastor of Mosaic church in Los Angeles, with his commercial titled, “Casket.” Check out his commercial below and then vote for his commercial to win here.
Sixth Sense Technology
Pattie Maes from MIT Media Lab’s new Fluid Interfaces Group recently presented the latest technological marvel, the “Sixth Sense.” The Sixth Sense is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. This whole new level of innovation and technology enables interaction between the real world and the world of data. What does the future hold?
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