"Southwest
Airlines Team joins the Camp Line-up!"
The latest addition to the line-up of Camp Improv General
Assembly speakers is a senior leadership team from Southwest
Airlines. And they're coming for peanuts!
Southwest Airlines embodies the core issues that form the
framework of Camp Improv: unlearning in order to learn,
leading by authentic relationships, discovering and releasing
people's untapped potential, and building an adaptive organization.
One of the best examples in the country of an organization
crafting a culture of empowering people and sustaining it
through periods of significant growth and expansion, Southwest
is known for its innovation and ability to focus on mission
while investing in people.
During the Wednesday evening General Assembly, a senior
leadership team from Southwest's University for People will
explore the airline's incredibly moving response to 9/11
focusing on the issue of discovering and releasing the untapped
potential of people.
The most effective churches in the future will be those
who know how to improvise...who understand about getting
ready for what's next. Camp Improv, Leadership Network's
2003 national learning experience, is a boot camp for improvisation
that leads to innovation. Held in Dallas, Texas, September
30-October 2, Camp Improv features world-class speakers
such as Jim Collins, Ron Heifetz, Ray Bakke and Mary Crossan
plus more than 25 practitioners from local congregations.
If you aren't signed up yet, click
here to see what you're missing! To sign up, go to www.campimprov.com.
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This
month, two super articles from some Leadership
Network friends from over the years. First, read
about our first Leadership Community gathering
and its focus -- Multi-site Congregations from
our friend, Warren Bird. Russ Bredholt, Jr. is
back with an article on “Delivering Good
Feedback.” I just finished that review process
with our own team and they are timely words. Enjoy!
You will see information elsewhere about the upcoming
Camp Improv experience. Click
here to take a peek at the first pre-experience
learnings. Click
here to see who’s coming!
If you are not registered, I would advise that
you do it this week. Once it is full, it’s
full.
Dave Travis
Senior Vice President
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by
Warren Bird
The Spring 2003 issue of Leadership Journal announced
that "the multi-site church is a phenomenon that you
will no doubt be hearing about in the future." 1
Church consultant Lyle Schaller says "the success of
. . . multi-site ventures has changed the context for
ministry."2
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The
core idea of multi-site is simple: "one church meeting
in many locations," as Elmer Towns describes it in Ten
of Today's Most Innovative Churches.3
These alternate venues go by a wide variety of names
including digital church, extension sites, video-café
congregations, multiple campuses, and satellite ministries.
A church becomes multi-site by extending itself to more
than one location: across town, across the state, and/or
literally around the world. In short, the multi-site
movement is about a new way of re-assigning the physical
boundaries of a church.
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By
Russ Bredholt, Jr.
The church has placed a strong emphasis on communication
from its beginning. How else could the "Good News" be
shared? Over the years, communities of faith and religious
organizations have been blessed with skillful communicators.
These include preachers, teachers, writers as well as
those who work with small groups.
Talent such as this is quite important since the church,
in one sense, is really in the "communications business."
Unfortunately, a critical component of communication
has been neglected: Delivering good feedback in a timely
manner. Like clean oil in the engine of a car, good
feedback can significantly improve how things run. It
also plays a key role in building strong relationships.
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If
you have interest in learning more about one of the
multi-site approaches, Community Christian Church of
Naperville, Illinois, a member of our Leadership Community,
is hosting a gathering of the "New Thing Network" on
September 8 and 9, 2003. It will cast vision and explore
the basics and innovations in becoming a multi-site
church. To find out more, call 630-388-5205 or click
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