SPIRITUAL GROWTH learning programs
Whether you're looking to explore the Christian Faith or are looking to grow in your understanding of God's perspective on boundaries, our dreams or experiencing freedom from the pains of your past, spiritual growth learning programs may be for you.
Please find below group and individual bible study programs that can transform your life.
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The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth
Become intentional about your and/or your teams personal growth. John Maxwell says, “If you focus on your goals, you may hit your goals – but that doesn’t guarantee growth. If you focus on growth, you will grow and always hit goals.
Passionate about personal development for over fifty years, and for the first time, John Maxwell teaches everything he has gleaned about what it takes to reach our potential. In the way that only he can communicate, he teaches on . . .
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The Law of the Mirror: You Must See Value in Yourself to Add Value to Yourself
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The Law of Awareness: You Must Know Yourself to Grow Yourself
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The Law of Modeling: It's Hard to Improve When You Have No One But Yourself to Follow
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The Law of the Rubber Band: Growth Stops When You Lose the Tension Between Where You are and Where You Could Be
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The Law of Contribution: Developing Yourself Enables You to Develop Others
Discover how "The 15 invaluable laws of growth will help you and/or your teams become a lifelong learner whose potential keeps increasing and never gets "used up."
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
What tools are you using to raise your and/or your teams level of leadership and, in turn, yours and theirs effectiveness?
Everything Rises and Falls on Leadership. Whether you are responsible for developing your company, others, or yourself, the more effective you are as a leader, the further you will go.
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The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership are lessons from John C. Maxwell, expert leadership teacher, consultant and author. His 50 years of leadership experience have revealed timeless laws of leadership such as:
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The Law of Solid Ground: Trust is the foundation of leadership
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The Law of Addition: Leaders add value by serving others
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The Law of the Picture: People do what people see
& 18 More Relevant Principles to Improve Your Impact and Influence!
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Change is Inevitable. Growth is Optional. Leaders embrace change as the key to growth. The 21 Laws of Leadership is your handbook for growing and developing yourself and others.
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Learn the Laws and Apply Them. These 21 laws carry consequences with them. Apply them and people will follow you. Violate or ignore them and your influence with others will suffer.
Everyone Communicates Few Connect
“Only One Thing Stands Between You and Success. It Isn’t Experience. It Isn’t Talent."
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Learn how to identify with people and relate to others in a way that increases your influence with them. To be a successful leader, you need to learn to communicate in a way that connects with others.
And while it may seem like some folks are just born with it, the fact is anyone can learn how to make every communication an opportunity for a powerful connection. In Everyone Communicates, Few Connect, Maxwell shares the Five Principles and Five Practices to develop the crucial skill of connecting, including:
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Finding Common Ground
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Keeping Your Communication Simple
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Capturing People’s Interest
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Inspiring People
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Staying Authentic in all Your Relationships
The ability to connect with others is a major determining factor in reaching your full potential. It’s no secret!
Connecting is a skill you can learn and apply in your personal, professional, and family relationships- and you can start now by taking this course!
Becoming a Person of Influence
"Influence doesn't come to us instantneously. It grows by stages." - John Maxwell
Learn the stages that will help you build your influence. Whatever your vocation or aspiration, you can increase your impact on others by "Becoming a Person of Influence". Learn simple, insightful ways to interact more positively with others, and watch your personal and organizational success go off the charts.
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Managers will see their employees respond with new enthusiasm.
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Parents will connect with their children on a deeper level.
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Coaches will see players blossom.
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Pastors will reach more people.
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Salespeople will break records.
With influence, you can achieve success at home, at work, and in every other area of life. Authors John Maxwell and Jim Dornan have spent most of their lives raising up influencers. With humor, heart, and unique insight, they share what they’ve gleaned from decades of experience in both business and nonprofit arenas. Best of all, their insights are practical and easy to apply to everyday life.
Put Your Dream To The Test
Your dream has power. It can inspire you. It can empower you. But will it reward you? In this guidebook to reaching your dreams, Dr. John C. Maxwell shows you how to do the things needed to make your dream come true.
Most people fail to realize their potential because their dream remains hypothetical. Put Your Dream to the Test takes your dream from ethereal to achievable. Maxwell shows you how to crystallize your vision and galvanize your commitment by instructing you how to answer ‘yes’ to questions like:
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Is my dream really my dream?
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Am I depending on factors in my control to achieve my dream?
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Do I have a strategy to achieve my dream?
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Have I included the people I need to realize my dream?
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Am I willing to pay the price for my dream?
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Does my dream benefit others?
Developing The Leader Within You 2.0
Dig deeper into developing the leader within you by learning the trademarks of successful leaders. Learn the 10 principles and practical insights that can help you grow to be an effective leader.
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The Definition of Leadership: Influence
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The Foundation of leadership: Character
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The Heart of Leadership: Serving people
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The Ultimate Test of Leadership: Creating Positive Change...and more
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Twenty-five years ago, John published Developing the Leader Within You, a book that revolutionized the way leaders are made and in the process sold more than two million copies. In 2018, he returned to his ground breaking book to include the leadership insights and practices he’s learned in the decades since the book first appeared. Eighty-nine percent of this new edition is revised, and it includes two completely new chapters.
Sometimes You Win-Sometimes You Learn
Whenever you step out to do something there's a risk of failure. In fact, choosing to NOT act on an evaluated good opportunity is a loss when we let the risks stop us from moving forward. It’s a question of our mindset, how we process our experiences, and having the right tools to turn our losses into gains.
Life's Greatest Lessons Are Gained from Our Losses
Drawing on nearly fifty years of leadership experience, Dr. Maxwell provides a roadmap for winning by examining the eleven elements that constitute the DNA of learners who succeed in the face of problems, failure, and losses. Learning is not easy during down times, it takes discipline to do the right thing when something goes wrong.
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Reality - The Foundation of Learning
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Responsibility - The First Step of Learning
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Improvement - The Focus of Learning
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Hope - The Motivation of Learning
As John Maxwell often points out, experience isn't the best teacher--evaluated experience is.
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R.E.A.L 101 Series:
What Every Leader Needs to Know
To be a success in life, a person needs to be able to master four areas:
Relationships, Equipping, Attitude and Leadership.
Relationship 101
Leadership is a relationship-intensive endeavor. If your people skills aren't strong, neither will be your leadership. Bestselling author and leadership expert John C. Maxwell knows that if people aren't following you, then you're not really leading.
In Relationships 101, Maxwell provides time-tested principles for developing healthy relationships with others?inside and outside of your organization?such as:
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The fundamentals common to all good relationships
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How to motivate people by knowing five things everyone has in common
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How to create a lasting connection with people on your team
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Why listening skills can be a leader's best friend
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The crucial factor that creates the foundation of all good relationships
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The most important relationship for any person's success
Just about everything you do depends on teamwork. Regardless of your role or position in any community or organization, you will be involved with other people.
Winning in every area of life comes from winning with people. Improve your leadership skills and areas of your life with Relationships 101!
Equipping 101
Drawing from his many best-selling books and years of experience mentoring, John Maxwell offers Equipping 101, a concise collection of time-tested principles on how to equip those around you for service.
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In his trademark, straightforward style, this reference audiobook is a "best of the best" from Maxwell on the subject. The format delivers practical, timeless information in a convenient, take-along volume.
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Why Do I Need to Equip Others?
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Why Is Equipping a Win-Win?
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What Does a Potential Leader Look Like?
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How Can I Invest in the Team for the Long Haul?
Attitude 101
Attitude can make or break you and the people you lead. Good attitudes on a team do not guarantee its success, but bad attitudes guarantee its ruin. So says New York Times best-selling author and leadership expert John C. Maxwell in this highly practical primer, Attitude 101.
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Anyone who has tried to lead people with bad attitudes knows the frustration it can bring. With this concise and listener-friendly guidebook, you can master attitude issues.
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Recognize how individuals' attitudes impact their performances
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Pinpoint problem feelings, behaviors, and thinking in yourself and others
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Identify six common attitude problems that undermine teamwork
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Discover the secret to changing a bad attitude
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Create new definitions of failure and success that will improve performance
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Adopt the attitude that helps a leader keep going to the next level
Attitude is contagious! You want to make sure your team is catching the right one!
Leadership 101
No matter who you are, you can lead and lead well. Leadership 101 offers a succinct framework for enhancing the leadership abilities you already possess. This program contains the essentials of leadership, defining it; identifying traits every leader should develop and its impact on your life and the lives of those around you.
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Leadership is such an essential part of success that the first law of leadership states that how well you lead determines how successful you will be (21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership). Few see themselves as leaders; many do not understand what leadership is or how it affects them. This program begins with a brief understanding of its importance and how everyone leads every day whether they realize it or not. Learn to:
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Follow your vision and bring others with you
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Produce a lasting legacy
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Grow the loyalty of your followers
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Make continual investments in the quality of your leadership
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Increase your ability to influence others
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Determine your leadership “lid”
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Empowering others through mentoring
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Create a foundation of trust
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Use self-discipline to improve your character and your results
One of the keys to successful leadership is applying the concepts that have made other leaders strong.
Leadershift: The 11 Essential Changes Every Leader Must Embrace
Dive into a masterclass that reveals the shifts you should make over the course of you career to keep innovating, improving, and influencing others to the highest levels of success in today’s unprecedented business climate.
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Change is so rapid today that leaders must do more than stay the course to be successful. If they aren’t nimble and ready to adapt, they won’t survive. The key is to learn how to leadershift.
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John C. Maxwell helps leaders gain the ability and willingness to make leadership changes that will positively enhance their organizational and personal growth. He does this by sharing the eleven shifts he made over the course of his long, successful leadership career.
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In Leadershift, Maxwell shares some of the leadershifts including…
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Adaptive Shift from Plan A to Option A,
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the Production Shift from Ladder Climbing to Ladder Building,
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the Influence Shift from Positional Authority to Moral Authority and more!
Leadershift gives specific guidance to readers about how to make these shifts in their own lives. Each one requires them to change the way they think, act, and ultimately lead so they can be successful in a world that never remains the same.
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To go forward, we need to move faster. And as leaders, we need to stay ahead, we need to see more than others, and we need to see before others.
The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication
Never Be Afraid to Speak to a Group Again
It’s been said that public speaking is the number one fear of most people, with death being second. “This means,” said comedian Jerry Seinfeld, “if you have to be at a funeral, you would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy.”
How can you overcome fear or ineffectiveness as a speaker? Learn the Laws of Communication!
John C. Maxwell has been a public speaker and motivational teacher for more than fifty years. He is one of only eight people on the planet who have been awarded Toastmaster’s Golden Gavel and been inducted into the National Speakers' Association Hall of Fame. In The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication: Apply Them and Make the Most of Your Message, he shares everything he’s learned from a lifetime of communication.
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Speak from conviction
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Prepare your content and yourself for speaking
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Find and use your personal and communication strengths
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Focus on your audience and connect
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Tell better stories
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Read the room and create energy and anticipation
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Add value to people
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Inspire people to take action
Everyone has a message to share. Whether you want to improve your ability to inspire employees, speak at PTA meetings, report to a board of directors, teach students, deliver a sermon, address a small group, speak from a stage, or communicate to an arena full of people, this book can help you.
Learn from one of the best communicators in the world and start making the most of your message today.
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Developing the Leaders Around You
Why do some people achieve great personal success, yet never succeed in building a business or making an impact in their organization?
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John C. Maxwell knows the answer. “The greatest leadership principle that I have ever learned in over twenty-five years of leadership,” says Maxwell, “is that those closest to the leader will determine the success level of that leader.” It’s not enough for a leader to have vision, energy, drive, and conviction. If you want to see your dream come to fruition, you must learn how to develop the leaders around you.
Whether you’re the leader of a non-profit organization, small business, or Fortune 500 company, Developing the Leaders Around You can help you to take others to the limits of their potential and your organization to a whole new level.
Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success
Today is the only time you have. It’s too late for yesterday. And you can’t depend on tomorrow. That’s why today matters.
Most of us look at our days in the wrong way: We exaggerate yesterday. We overestimate tomorrow. We underestimate today. The truth is that the most important day you will ever experience is today. Today is the key to your success.
Maxwell offers 12 decisions and disciplines-he calls it his daily dozen-that can be learned and mastered by any person to achieve success.
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Challenge yourself and/or your teams to live these daily practices for success.