AD Boot Camp, October 15, 2020 - Chad Wiebe

Leadership Resources on the wiki

• Handout
• Five Tips for Better Meetings.pdf
• Types of meetings > Patrick Lencioni

• Handout
• Link to AD Boot Camp Planner

• ​​​​​Twassistant.com > a cost-effective way to find a part-time virtual administrative assistant
• Using a virtual assistant > by Jeff Widman. Very practical.
• Four types of assistants
• Virtual Freedom: How to Work with Virtual Staff to buy more time, become more productive and build your dream business by Chris Ducker.

• See Managing your workload section on Personal Well-Being of the Leader wiki page, which includes information about managing email and using virtual assistants.
• Reflect_refocus > a quarterly review process to help you make sure you keep your focus on the most important things.
• Guide for Day Alone with God – used in MOP
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity > a book by David Allen that has helped many people in personal productivity. See review here. GTD Work Flow
• Email:
  • Webinar on Overcoming Death by Email with Ted Esler (free for SEND members)
  • Getting Email under Control > a short article by David Allen.
• In Search of Balance: Keys to A Stable Life by Richard Swenson.

• Microsoft Teams > free with SEND's M365. Chat, online meetings, integrated with Planner and other Microsoft Office products. A great way to work collaboratively online.
• Microsoft Planner > free with SEND's M365. Task management for teams. Makes it easy to assign tasks and track completion by various team members.
• Microsoft To Do > free web-based to-do list that works well with Planner
• OneNote > Free with SEND's Microsoft 365. Great for storing and quickly retrieving meeting notes, projects, and web articles.
• Calendly > Calendly helps you schedule one-on-one meetings without the back-and-forth emails. It automatically figures out time zone differences for you. The free version is very adequate.
• Doodle > online scheduling tool for group meetings, giving each participant a chance to select options that work for them.
• TimeandDate.com's International Meeting Planner > Figure out what time a future meeting will be in various time zones.

• Handout
• It's OK to be the Boss > by Bruce Tulgan. This book was the basis of the training at Directors' Council in 2014.
• How Many Direct Reports Should You Have? How many direct reports should a supervisor have? Some say the magic number is “7”. This article says that the number depends on some organizational cultural factors such as the complexity of the work, the employee skills and experience, the acceptable error rate, the managerial experience of the supervisor, the amount of change in the environment, and the degree that you use technology to oversee projects.
• Building Leaders: Blueprints for Developing Leadership at Every Level of Your Church by Aubrey Malphurs and Will Mancini

• Building Strong Teams: Nurturing the Commitment of our Teammates > a presentation made by Ken Guenther at the 2011 “Becoming an Effective Leader of a Team” training in Taiwan and Germany
• Managing Those Called > a short story (fiction) written by Dr. Ken Harder about a mission leader who discovers the value of intrinsic motivation
• Intrinsic Motivation at Work: What Really Drives Employee Engagement by Kenneth Thomas
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Dan Pink (also Ted Talk by Dan Pink

• See Philip Jackson’s YouTube training video on Crucial Conversations.
• Training notes from the AD boot camp on the topic of Crucial Conversations (by Warren Janzen)
• Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving violated expectations, broken commitments and bad behavior by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler. Ken's summary document of this book.
• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High also by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler.
• VitalSmarts resources > the organization behind the books, Crucial Accountability & Crucial Conversations