Values-Driven Leadership: Discovering and Developing Your Core Values for Ministry / Edition 2

by Aubrey Malphurs

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 and implementing 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 implementing those insights in practical ways. 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 values statement and focus in on your mission. This edition includes

- Helpful discussion questions
- Core values audits
- A readiness-for-change inventory to help you and your ministry identify areas in need of attention
- The latest research on values
- New insights into the differences between values and beliefs.

This is a useful book for individuals, boards, committees, and leadership teams.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801065163
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/01/2004
Edition description:	2nd Edition
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Aubrey Malphurs (1944-2022) was senior professor of leadership and pastoral ministry at Dallas Theological Seminary for many years, as well as founder of the Malphurs Group. He was the author of more than twenty books on leadership development, strategic planning, and church health, including Look Before You Lead and Re:Vision.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	7
1.	You Can't Live without Them: The Importance of Core Values	13
2.	What Are We Talking About? The Definition of Core Values	29
3.	What Drives You? The Discovery of Core Values	55
4.	Writing Your Values Credo: The Development of Core Values	75
5.	Moving Your Values from Paper to People: The Communication of Core Values	91
6.	Weaving New Values into the Congregational Fabric: The Implementation of Core Values	115
7.	How Not to Drop the Ball: The Preservation of Core Values	129
Appendix A	Church Credos	145
Appendix B	Parachurch Credos	157
Appendix C	Marketplace Credos	161
Appendix D	Core Values Audits	165
Appendix E	Readiness for Change Inventory	169
	Notes	175
	Index	181