Parallel Leaders

Maximizing Momentum: How to Build and Sustain Energy in Your Organization.

Are you tired of feeling like your team is just going through the motions? Do you want to unlock their full potential and achieve new heights of creativity? It all starts with integrity. 
Discover how integrity can build trust and energize your organization.
TOPICS INCLUDE:
Integrity is more than honesty and respect.
Trust: the key to unlocking creativity.
Using track records to determine leadership readiness.
How to cultivate trust.
Sustaining momentum
 
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Mastering Self Evaluation: Take Control of Criticism!

Have you ever felt the sting of harsh criticism and had difficulty recovering? Find out how to transform criticism into an opportunity - learn the essential skills of mastering self-evaluation!
 
TOPICS INCLUDE
What lens to filter every criticism through.
Identifying emotions to redefine behaviours.
3 questions to ask when receiving criticism.
How to maintain the right attitude.
the importance of self-evaluation and the role it plays in becoming a successful leader. 
Learning to differentiate between personal and positional criticism.
 
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5 Strategies to Improve Self-Awareness in Leadership

Are you ready to take control of your success? Here's how to practice self-evaluation to work smarter, not harder with these 5 strategies.
TOPICS INCLUDE:
The value of personality tests
Using others' reactions to assess how they are affected by you. 
Practicing self-reflection
Seeking feedback
Analyzing mistakes
The practice of self-compassion
 
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10 Qualities of a Self-Aware Leader

Self-awareness is the key to unlocking your potential as a leader.
Travis Bradbury and Jean Greaves, the authors of Emotional Intelligence, report the alarming impact a high self-awareness has on your performance. A study found that a high level of self-awareness was reflected in 83% of top performers, while only 2% of bottom performers displayed this trait.
This indicates that self-awareness is crucial to your success as a leader.
 
TOPICS INCLUDE:
• The difference between empathy and sympathy • The power of active listening • Accountability is not a bad word • How to self-reflect • The role of Emotional Intelligence in leadership
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How to Recruit and Develop a Volunteer Team

If you are a volunteer-based organization, you understand the value and importance of effective recruitment and development of your volunteers. But if you’re like most leaders, you also know how tricky it can be to onboard and equip people for your teams.
 
 
TOPICS INCLUDE:
Determining where people fit.
Who should recruit?
The secret to successful recruitment
The importance of defining their purpose.
Presentation matters.
The vital importance of skill development.
How to keep a team motivated.
How to supervise your team
How to reward your team
Avoid this trap when developing teams
 
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
► Download student notes: https://parallelleaders.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/How-to-recruit-and-develop-a-volunteer-team_Student-Edition.pdf
 
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Brandon Stewart–How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge

99% of us are leading from the middle. We’re being led while leading others. In this episode of Parallel Leaders, Lead Pastor Kelly Stickel from Parallel Church and Pastor Brandon Stewart from Leading Second in the Pacific Northwest, dive deep into leading from the second seat. Learn to build trust, grow your circle of influence, challenge the process in a healthy way, expand your capacity and deal with your own insecurities so you can grow as a leader – no matter where you’re leading from.TOPICS INCLUDE: 
• How to stay culturally connected with your leader.
• What to do when your opinion conflicts with your leaders.
• Challenging the process or decision in a healthy way.
• Dealing with unmet expectations
• The one thing that is guaranteed to derail your leadership. 
• Avoiding burnout or exhaustion. 
• Increasing your capacity.
• Disciplines to help you carry the leadership load. RESOURCES MENTIONED: 
► Download the show notes 
► Leading Second
► Book: The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz 
► Book: Rocket Fuel by Geno Wickman and Marc Winters 
► Book: High Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard 
► Book: 360 Leader by John Maxwell
► Book: Emotionally Healthy Spirituality by Peter ScazzaroCONNECT WITH PARALLEL LEADERS:
► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parallelleaders
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► Website: https://parallelleaders.com
► Kelly Stickel: https://kellystickel.com
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ABOUT BRANDON STEWART: Brandon & Lindsay fiercely believe in the power and potential of a healthy local church. Firmly planted at Champions Centre in Tacoma, WA, they have given their lives toward this cause. Brandon has been passionately building the church’s community impact over the years, serving on the leadership team of Champions Centre in Tacoma, WA. He’s given his drive and his effort to the success of the Team Church Conference and tribe, as well as coaching pastors, leaders, and teams across North America.

Building Effective Systems

Systems won’t grow your personal capacity, department or organization but a lack of or faulty systems will prevent you from growing. Today's bonus episode on the Four Steps to Building an Effective System is from this month's Leaders Call, a live group coaching call with Kelly Stickel from Parallel Church in Lethbridge, AB. TOPICS INCLUDE: • Designing a clearly defined process.
• How to create movement within a system.
• How to align your departments, staff, and volunteers around the same simple process.
• How to do less to grow more.
• Q: How to narrow your focus by differentiating between the good and the best.
• Q: How to teach leaders to grow their teams and teach systems to people who might not be part of these calls or the original teaching?
• Q: How to identify when it's a systems problem verse outside influences outside your control.
• Q: Tools to use to measure your data.
RESOURCES MENTIONED: ► Sign up for our next Leaders Call at https://linktr.ee/parallelleaders and join a live group coaching call or get notifications of our next live stream event.
► Eric Smith–Building Systems for Sustainable Growth 
► Book: The Purpose Driven Church by Rick Warren 
► In-house Communications: Slack 
► Project Management: Trello 
► Project Management: Monday.com
► Church Database Management: Planning Center Online 
► Cloud Storage: Google Drive 
 
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Evaluating, Defining and Realigning Systems

Being a seasonal company can bring unique challenges when onboarding staff and adjusting systems that no longer support your growth. Choosing the right time is essential to rolling out new systems.
Today's coaching conversation is with Dustin Finley, the owner of Valiant Solutions (https://valiantsolutions.ca/), a COR Certified, IRATA trained Rope Access, and Aerial life company specializing in high-rise and large-scale repair and maintenance company in Calgary, AB, is all about systems.
 
TOPICS INCLUDE:
• When to evaluate and adjust systems.
• How to develop foresight. 
• Rolling out a new system for your team.
• How to adjust a system in a seasonal business.
• Onboarding new staff. 
• Who is responsible for building and maintaining systems? 
• Holding your staff accountable.
• The importance of defining wins and creating scoreboards. 
• Tip on calendar management.
 
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
► Additional resources and show notes
► Follow Valiant Solutions on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/evanstruckingltd/)
► Find out more about Valiant Solutions 
► Book: Traction by Gino Wickman 
► Book: Rocket Fuel by Gino Wickman
► Book: The 4 Disciplines of Execution
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The Principle of the First Follower

99% of us are leading from the middle. We’re being led while leading others. Get an inside look from one of the Leading Second–One Day Canada sessions with Pastor Brandon Stewart as he discusses the principle of the first follower and the distinct differences between a servant and a steward.

Eric Smith–Building Systems for Sustainable Growth

Are you struggling with not seeing results or not seeing results stick? More often than not, this is a systems problem – not a spiritual problem.
In this episode of Parallel Leaders Podcast, Kelly Stickel, Lead Pastor from Parallel Church, and Dr. Eric Smith, Lead Pastor at Hope City Church in Florida and author of Momentum: A Step-by-Step System for Growing a Healthy Church, take a deep dive into systems. Learn how to have clear vision and strategy, build a healthy culture, bring clarity, and implement measurements and accountability within your organization so incredible growth can take place and be sustained.
 
TOPICS INCLUDE:
• Why should you create a "Momentum" type system
• "Momentum System" overview.
• The impact of the "Momentum" or EOS system in action.
• Why you need to do a culture audit and how it can improve team trust.
• Why your staff might be feeling frustrated.
• Determining priorities when correcting your culture.
• Creating measurements and metrics out of your values.
• The power of a 100-minute meeting.
• Lag Measures and Lead Actions
 
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
► Download the show notes: 
► FREE CULTURE AUDIT
► The Equip Group
► BOOK: Momentum by Eric Smith
► BOOK: Traction by Gino Wickman
► BOOK: 5 Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
► 5 Voices System by GiANT Worldwide 
 
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► Subscribe to our weekly email for resources, relationships, coaching. https://linktr.ee/parallelleadersABOUT ERIC SMITH:
Dr. Eric Smith brings twenty years of ministry and leadership experience, with ten of those years as a Senior Pastor. He was a founder of Vertical Church, a church plant in Mississippi that became one of the fastest growing churches in the State which grew to four campuses.
During that same time period, Eric was a founder of the 242 Network. The 242 Network is a church-planting network that assesses, trains, and coaches church planters primarily in Mississippi, but also around North America. During his time as the 242 Network Director, the team developed church planter assessments, training, and coaching.
The 242 Network has now helped to plant over 50 churches and trained hundreds of church leaders. After almost seven years as a church planter and the 242 Network Director, Eric took on the task of revitalizing Vaughn Forest Church in Montgomery, AL, a church that had been declining for almost nine consecutive years. Under Eric’s leadership and a powerful work of the Holy Spirit, the church saw the momentum change and within a year and a half was named to Outreach Magazine’s “100 Fastest Growing Churches in America".
During the past two years Eric has worked as a consultant serving churches and church plants around the country. Eric and Krystal believe God is calling their family to take a new step of faith and plant Hope City Church.