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Making Shifts Without Making Waves: A Coach Approach to Soulful Leadership (TCP Leadership Series)

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I've had this book for several months and recently decided to read it. I was moved by the concept of the soulful leader. The models are appropriate for both the corporate and spiritual worlds and even applicable to my personal life. Eddie and Randy have done an excellent job of bringing their real-world experiences to light and allowing us to learn from their journies. I recommend this book to anyone looking to establish a level of confidence in bringing their faith to their leadership roles.

This book dares to go for it...Inspiring, daring, right on target. Coaching implies that we're in it together - finding similarities, acknowledging strengths, encouraging. It outlines a practical and powerful framework that can be applied to any life situation. It inspires love in action. It's leading from the heart to get to the heart. - Amy McKay, Denver, Colorado

This was an excellent book for all church leaders. All churches must be changing. It is the natural response to congregations that are part of the Restoration Movement. There are restoring congregations and non-restoring congregations, and those who believe in the restoration plea must be continually changing to align themselves with the Lord's will. The problem is that in churches all change is resisted, even positive and needed change. So there are two elements are work, the need to change with the desire to stop all change. If a leader in the congregation does not know how to handle change or lead change in a congregation, there are going to be problems. But the way that leaders handle change or lead change is vast. Often one's style of leadership is doubled in a change effort. Mostly in the process of change, strengths become stronger and weaknesses become weaker. In this book, the author uses a framework of coaching to provide a skill set in helping a congregation move forward. This coaching style seems to be good in a congregational setting. It teaches the leader to work with the people in the church to move forward instead of pulling or driving the people. The book provides various steps, and mostly gives questions to ask for the members to deal with reality and the needed changes. Instead of you dictating the results, you walk with the people and coach them through the process. There is a lot of information and models in this book to use. It is a little overwhelming, so it is a book that you should consult in the process, but it provides concrete steps in coaching change. This is definitely a book that all church leaders should read.

I had been frustrated in trying to help people who are very mistrustful of old institutions, especially church, yet surprisingly are dead set on self discovery. Making Shifts Without Making Waves helps sort out the mega shifts taking place which affect the careers of almost anyone in the people business. Eddie Hammett and James Pierce introduce the Soulful Leadership approach.

As they put it, another "sage on the stage" or being a better "attractional organization" programming and dictating the way out for individuals, businesses, non-profits isn't working so well. What is needed isn't usually isn't more information but someone who can call up existing resources, and negotiate a path forward. All the resources they need is right in front of them.

The acronyms in the book are easy to remember and indexed. The coaching questions and and models were a big help in leaping me forward to understand where "coaching" fits in to leadership.

A great resource to go back to again and again.

WOW! Is all I can say! This book is for everyone not just leaders. Randy and Eddie have created an approach that is easy to understand, easy to follow, practical, and based on the foundation of encouraging loving from the heart that the greatest coach of all has taught us from the beginning. I especially like all the practical tools in the appendix. The entire book is formated in such a way that it is easy to read and to begin using the tools immediately without having completed the entire book! If I had a hat on it would be off to the two of you and what you have created and shared with the rest of us! I can't wait for the workbook!

Powerful questions which create fertile ground for harmonious change are at the heart of this book. Hammett and Pierce did it again! I'm looking forward to their next book.

I appreciated Eddie's use of insightful coaching questions throughout his book. This book will be most helpful for those who are aware that their organization is undergoing significant changes and would like to understand and explore these changes with key leaders in the organization. While any change process involves both discomfort and confusion, in this book Making Shifts Without Making Waves, Eddie Hammet opens up windows of insight that will help leaders recognize and move forward on the opportunites that come in the midst of transitions.

When congregations and other Christian organizations are ready for transformation they need a coach approach to soulful leadership for the transitions and changes they must experience. Eddie, Randy, and Steve present a timely and excellent model and very practical tools for making significant shifts. Read, practice, and feel the rush of soulful leadership!

This is an excellent follow-up to the earlier book by Eddie and Randy on Reaching People Under 40 While Keeping People Over 60 Reaching People Under 40 While Keeping People Over 60: Being Church for All Generations (TCP Leadership Series) When you need to engage in this strategy you need to be sure you do not make unnecessary waves.

Church leaders who take seriously the call to be `salt and light,' to equip their congregations to transform their communities in the Spirit of Christ, need new approaches to leadership in our rapidly changing times. These authors command a profound grasp of both the `why' and the `how.' This book makes an extremely valuable contribution to this critical and timely topic."

Larry Hovis, Executive Coordinator, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina

This is an absorbing and accomplished look at a "coach approach" to soulful living and leading. The diagrams and charts that outline the authors' theology of change are worth the price of admission alone. A stellar contribution to the coaching literature.

Leonard Sweet, Drew University, George Fox University, [...]