Life as Leadership: Where Leaders Gather to Grow Together

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Brian Tibbs is the CEO at Ardeo Global. Ardeo Global is a Christian nonprofit whose primary goal is to make disciples who make disciples. They do this by sending missionary teams around the world to plant new churches. Since starting the organization, they’ve sent 360 longterm missionaries to more than 10 countries, planted 94 new churches, and led tens of thousands of people to become followers of Christ. Brian lives with his wife Jill and three kids in Quito, Ecuador. 

LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS 

• The goal of a 40/40 teammate should be to work yourself out of a job by preparing others for leadership.
• Objective, tools, training, and purpose create an effective recipe for success with young people
• Communal living leads to quickened maturity and preparation for for future relationships.
• Young people (20s30s) are much more moldable for leadership because they tend not to bring preconceived notions.
• Teams heavily weighted toward one gender tend to result in communities weighted toward that gender.
• It is easier to handle team conflict when you assume the teammate does not have bad intentions
• Three key leadership characteristics: Loyalty, quality of spirit, and capacity/ability, with a heavy preference for the first two.
• Loyalty means fighting hard internally when there are decisions to be made but standing together externally, after a decision has been made. 

ABOUT ARDEO GLOBAL

• Name is Latin and means burning/passion.
• Teams are created by matching five young people from the country where the church is being planted with five young people from other countries.
• In a matter of two years, Ardeo Global is able to develop dedicated, skilled leaders for the future.

QUESTIONS TO INSPIRE US TO ACTION

• What is some lesson, saying, or experience that continues to influence your leadership to this day? Keep yourself grounded both spiritually and practically.
• Use three descriptors to finish this sentence: “A leader is…” Tough, intuitive, and visionary
• What is a question that leaders should be asking either themselves or others? Are we working in the right place?
• What book would you recommend to leaders? Good to Great (Jim Collins) and Heavenly Man (Brother Yun)
• If you could get every listener to start doing something THIS week to help them be a better leader, what would it be? Don’t conform. Just like Romans 12:12 says, “Let your mind be renewed…” Don’t accept the current reality. Push the envelope. Think bigger. Challenge yourself. Always strive for improvement… There’s always room for improvement.
• As a general life principle, is it better to ask “why?” or “why not?” Why not? We focus on our why, but as leaders we need to accept risk and reach higher.

CONNECT WITH BRIAN/ARDEO

• Instagram: @ardeoglobal
• Website: www.ardeo.org
• Email: [email protected]

CONNECT WITH JOSH

• Instagram: @joshuafriedeman
• Email: [email protected]

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Josh, Anna-Maria, Austen, and Michelle discuss Monday’s interview with Wes Griffin, president and CEO at the International Leadership Institute. They discuss how different experiences in their lives worked together in unexpected ways, the difficulty of measuring outcomes (especially in small organizations and small group settings), and how to grow along with your organization or your team.

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Dr. Wes Griffin serves as President and CEO at the International Leadership Institute (ILI). ILI is a global organization dedicated to equipping leaders to accelerate the spread of the Gospel. They’re a great example of how to effectively produce leaders that produce leaders. Their training is centered around eight key principles: 1. Intimacy with God, 2. Passion for the harvest, 3. Visionary leadership, 4. Culturally relevant evangelism, 5. Multiplication of leaders, 6. Family priority, 7. Faithful stewardship, and 8. Integrity. From its beginning in 1998 till today, ILI has more than a quarter-million alumni and are working to have alumni in 100 nations by the year 2020. Wes has some great insight to share with us today, so let’s get started with the interview.

Leadership insights

• Leadership affects everything else.
• Leaders need to care about results. Stories are not good enough for measurement—data is important.
• Leaders should be open to insight from independent sources
• The leader you are this year will not be adequate to lead in the future if you do not grow
• Always keep asking why—why is more important than how (though how is also very important)

Questions to inspire us to action:

• What is some lesson, saying, or experience that continues to influence your leadership to this day? Hope is not a strategy. We’re people of faith, but we need to take our faith and develop strategic plans so that true strategy can accomplish
• Use three descriptors to finish this sentence: “A leader is…” Visionary, resilient, and relentless.
• What is a question that leaders should be asking either themselves or others? What did I learn today?
• What book would you recommend to leaders? My Utmost for His Highest—Oswald Chambers
• If you could get every listener to start doing something THIS week to help them be a better leader, what would it be? I would solve one key issue that is holding your organization back.
• As a general life principle, is it better to ask “why?” or “why not?” Why. One of my leadership principles is to know why you are doing something. If you know the “why,” then you know what your motivation is. You know what the needs is that you're trying to see achieved, and you know why you’re asking them to get involved and to even sacrifice and be committed so that the world can be different.

Connect with ILI:

• Twitter: @ILI_Team
• Instagram: @ILITEAM
• Website: https://iliteam.org
• Email: [email protected]

CONNECT WITH JOSH

• Instagram: @joshuafriedeman
• Email: [email protected]

Music credits:

• DJ Quads | Cruise Around | Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads/cruise-aroundDJ Quads | Smile | https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads/smile
• DJ Quads | It Just Makes Me Happy | Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads/it-just-makes-me-happyThe International Leadership Institute has trained over 250,000 leaders.

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Josh, Kelsey, Jake, and Jonathan discuss Monday's interview with Phil Darke, president at Providence World. They discuss their experiences with mentorship, what it means that “leadership doesn’t always make sense,” when to delegate, and their thoughts on personality assessments (mainly, the enneagram).

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Phil Darke, president at Providence World, shares his leadership insight on mentorship, excellence, learning, and cross-cultural leadership. Phil also shares about La Providencia, Providence World's incubator model for family-based orphan care.

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Josh, Anna-Maria, Elijah, Tubby talk about their thoughts on the interview with Dr. Kathleen Patterson, servant leadership expert. They discuss some of they insights they found most interesting and point out what they think are contemporary examples of servant leadership.

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Dr. Kathleen Patterson serves as a professor at Regent University, and she is the Director of their Doctor of Strategic Leadership program. She is a noted expert on servant leadership and has coordinated annual Servant Leadership Roundtables in the United States as well as three Global Roundtables in the Netherlands, Australia, and Iceland. She has been involved in a number of consulting projects nationally and abroad and sits on the board of directors for the Larry C. Spears Center for Servant Leadership, Care Net, and Millennials for Marriage.

LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS

• Dr. Patterson shares about her path to studying and developing the theory of servant leadership.
• She discusses what servant leadership is and is not as well as how it is possible to lead more effectively as a servant.
• She shares some practical tips on what it looks like to serve as a leader - including how to fire people as servant leader!
• Unlike transformational leadership, which is focused on the organization, servant leadership is focused on the follower.
• Servant leadership is often misunderstood, but at its core it is focused on helping followers to develop into better human beings.

QUESTIONS TO INSPIRE US TO ACTION:

• An experience that continues to influence Dr. Patterson's leadership to this day: The men and women who were kind and gracious and opened doors when they didn't have to.
• A leader is: Loving, humble, and serving.
• A question leaders should be asking themselves: Do I reflect Jesus Christ?
• Book recommendations for leaders: In the Name of Jesus (Henri Nouwen) and The Hiding Place (Corrie Ten Boom).
• A habit to start THIS week to be a better leader: Pray for your followers. If you invest in them in prayer, it will change everything.
• As a general life principle, is it better to ask "why?" o "why not?": Why not? Sometimes we ask "why me? Why did this happen to me?" Well, why not you?

CONNECT WITH JOSH

• Instagram: @joshuafriedeman
• Email: [email protected]

Music credits:

• DJ Quads | Cruise Around | Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads/cruise-around
• DJ Quads | Smile | https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads/smile
• DJ Quads | It Just Makes Me Happy | Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads/it-just-makes-me-happy

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This introductory episode of the Life as Leadership podcast gives you a preview of what's to come, including why this podcast exists, what it's about, and what you can expect each week.

Highlights: There are opportunities in nearly every situation in life to lead. There are three questions each of us is faced with:

1. Are you able to see these opportunities to lead?
2. Are you prepared to lead?
3. Will you actually step up and take action?

This podcast is meant to give you access to lessons and insights from great leaders and to connect you with a community of leaders as a way to encourage and motivate you on your path toward becoming a better leader - to be a place where leaders gather to grow together.

CONNECT WITH JOSH

• Instagram: @joshuafriedeman
• Email: [email protected]

Music credits:

• DJ Quads | Cruise Around | Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads/cruise-around
• DJ Quads | It Just Makes Me Happy | Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads/it-just-makes-me-happy

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