Back in the saddle again

[Pastor Gary]

I have been on am extended academic leave of absence from Fuller after Amy's medical emergency, and just jumped back in. (What was I thinking??)

I am easing in with a course called "Leadership Training Models" built upon Vella's work with dialog and peer-to-peer training models.

"This course is an overview of leadership development focusing on design and evaluation of training models that have proven effective for leader development in mission and ministry. Includes an in-depth look at dialogue education (Jane Vella). This course gives you tools to evaluate or design training using several techniques to analyze an actual field case."

Anybody read any of these required texts?

• Heifetz, Ronald A and Marty Linsky. Leadership on the Line, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2002.
• Kouzes, James M. and Barry Z. Posner. The Leadership Challenge: Third Edition. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003.
• Kouzes, James M. and Barry Z. Posner. Student Leadership Practices Inventory, Student workbook. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005.
• Kouzes, James M. and Barry Z. Posner. Student Leadership Practices Inventory, Self Instrument. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005.
• Hart, Lois B. and Charlotte S. Waisman. The Leadership Training Activity Book. AMACOM, New York, N.Y., 2005.
• Parks, Sharon Daloz. Leadership Can Be Taught. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2005.
• Vella, Jane, Berardinelli, P. and Burrow, J., How Do They Know That They Know? Evaluating Adult Learning, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1997.
• Vella, Jane, On Teaching and Learning: Putting the Principles and Practices of Dialogue Education into Action, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2008.

[pastorables]

This reminds me of a Gene Autry song.

[scooter]

Kouzes, James M. and Barry Z. Posner. The Leadership Challenge: Third Edition. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003.

Yes to all the Kouzes and Posner. They were staples throughout the entire journey.