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Preparing Your Team for The Leadership Summit: Watch the Jack Welch Clip

July 13, 2010 in Canadian, Leadership, Leadership Summit, joy by Scott Cochrane | No comments

As leaders continue to get their teams ready for this year’s Global Leadership Summit we’re looking at things you can be doing now to maximize the Summit experience.

One idea is to take advantage of Summit materials being released online. For example, on this  Summit web page you’ll find an excerpt from Bill Hybels interview with Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric.

This clip, part of the session to be shown at the Summit in August, Bill and Jack discuss the pace of leadership. Watch this clip with your team and discuss:

  • Where have we moved too slowly in our leadership?
  • Have we every moved too quickly? What have been the consequences?
  • What issues are presently before us that require quick action?

Remember; if you want to maximize the Summit for your team it’s important to take advantage of the time leading up to the event. Plan out ways you can prepare your team for an optimal experience.
And be sure to share your ideas with me so I can post them to others.

How are you preparing your team for this year’s Summit?

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How Do You Get the Most Out of The Leadership Summit?

July 9, 2010 in Leadership, Leadership Summit, action by Scott Cochrane | 1 comment

I’ve taken teams to The Leadership Summit for years, and one thing I’ve learned is that what you and your team get out of the Summit is proportional to what you put in to the Summit.

Some years, I’ve found myself doing little more than determining how many would be on our Summit team, making sure we were registered, and having someone coordinate transportation. In those years the Summit experience, while worthwhile, didn’t seem to gain optimal traction with our team.

But in the others years where we intentionally invested time, energy and creativity on the front end, the impact of the Summit experience was entirely different.

One year we loaded our team on a bus and headed to a Summit site in Vancouver, BC. In addition to the Summit itself we had planned a series of team-building activities, including renting tandem bikes to cycle Vancouver’s famous Stanley Park seawall, and even wrapped up the week with a catered gourmet dinner on a beach.

That was 10 years ago, and those who were there still talk about those experiences to this day.

Today, as I talk to church leaders from coast to coast, I continue to be inspired to hear the creative ways teams are maximizing the Summit experience.

I’d love to hear what you are doing/planning to do, and then I’d like to share your ideas with leaders across Canada.

Tell me what you’re planning in terms of:

  • Team building
  • Advanced reading assignments
  • Ways you’re tying the Summit into your church’s strategy
  • Prayer initiatives

I’ll feature your ideas in a future post.

Just remember; what you get out of the Summit is proportional to what you put in to the Summit!

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