Resources to help you lead more effectively in any environment.
Leadership University
A leadership course offered three times a year, Leader U focuses on the development of the Mind, Character, and Skills of the Christian leader. Each course is six weeks in length and led by a LifeGroup Director at Forest Hill. If you are a LifeGroup leader and interested in participating in this program, contact your LifeGroup Director for more information.
Biblical Literacy Partnership
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary has a campus located in Charlotte with whom Forest Hill has a long and rich relationship. Gordon-Conwell has put together a program for Biblical Literacy program that consists of three courses and designed for the lay leader in local churches. Offering courses on the Old Testament, New Testament, and Biblical Teaching, the program leverages extraordinarily gifted faculty and offers one of these three classes per semester. Visit their website for registration information. This program is a wonderful complement to Leadership University for the Forest Hill LifeGroup leader.
Incarnate Leadership
Whitworth University president Bill Robinson highlights five qualities that characterized the leadership style of Jesus. Conversational in tone and seasoned with real-life stories from his own successes and failures as a leader, Robinson helps Christian leaders understand how to emulate the strong yet humble approach to leadership that Jesus used to establish his church.
Courage and Calling
by Gordon T. Smith. God has called you-first to himself, to know and follow him, but also to a specific life purpose, a particular reason for being. This second call, often termed a vocation, has implications for our work or occupation, but its ramifications reach far and wide. It includes our giftedness, our weakness, our life in community, what we do day to day. In this book Gordon Smith invites us to discover our vocation by listening to God and becoming coworkers with him.
Strengths Finder 2.0
by Tom Rath. Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day? Chances are, you don't. All too often, our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths. To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced the first version of its online assessment, StrengthsFinder, in 2001 which ignited a global conversation and helped millions to discover their top five talents. In its latest national bestseller, StrengthsFinder 2.0, Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular assessment, language of 34 themes, and much more (see below for details). While you can read this book in one sitting, you'll use it as a reference for decades.