Listen as four professional church workers who have worked with congregations and church workers post-disaster and facing changes and choices, share their insights and words of wisdom to navigate the unforeseen.

All four are available to walk beside you during this time of the "Post Pandemic Journey" to bring support and help as you determine the way forward by God's grace.

Reach out to Rev Tim Hartner as a spiritual director during this time

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Director Megan Meissler and Rev Dr. Rick Armstrong at Lutheran Counseling Services

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Office 407-644-4692

And your host, Leadership Coach Rev Scott Gress, MSL, PCC

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With this episode, we welcome coach and consultant Rose Hollister. Her work focusses on business performance, onboarding, leadership and team development, culture and change management. In the podcast she talks about her new book Nobody Told Me 129 Unwritten Rules for Career Success. Along the way she brings her wisdom and content to life with stories and examples. She shares how these can make all the difference no matter the organization or position you hold.

She has written three articles for Harvard Business Review: How to Onboard New Hires at Every Level - https://hbr.org/2019/06/how-to-onboard-new-hires-at-every-level

Too Many Projects - https://hbr.org/2018/09/too-many-projects?referral=03758&cm_vc=rr_item_page.top_right

Nobody Told Me, 129 Unwritten Rules for Career Success - https://www.amazon.com/Nobody-Told-Me-Unwritten-Success/dp/0692147160/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1542549129&sr=8-1&keywords=nobody+told+me+hollister

You can connect with Rose on her website and through her email

https://www.hollisterassociatesinc.com

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This podcast was recorded on March 27, 2020, right in the midst of the Coronavirus challenges. In order to help us to lead during this anxious time we are joined by Megan Meisler, Executive Director of Lutheran Counseling Services (LCS) and Rev. Dr. Rick Armstrong, former Executive Director and now the Ministry Care Coordinator with LCS. They bring lots of experience as leaders and counselors but also those who have served in anxious times with New Yorkers post 911, with Gulf Coast leaders post-hurricane Katrina and residents of Sandy Hook after that tragedy.

Today they speak about anxiety, how that shows up among the population, among those we serve as leaders and perhaps most importantly within ourselves. Their experience leads to strategies and insights that will help us to be better leaders during anxious times.

You can reach out to them at http://LCSFL.com

Megan Meisler - [email protected]

Rev. Dr. Rick Armstrong - [email protected]

Rev Dr. Peter Meier joins the podcast as the new Executive Director of Mission and Outreach for the FLGA District LCMS. Peter shares with us his personal history and journey into ministry. In addition, he shares his extensive knowledge and experience in leadership and coaching with congregations and pastors and missional leaders. Finally, Peter talks about his short terms goals with the district and some of the first steps he endeavors to take in this new ministry.

You can contact Peter at 952-221-0362 or [email protected]

Rev Dr. Rick Armstrong joins Scott to talk about what a leader can do to finish well. He shares some proactive things that a leader can do to guard against what can sidetrack them in the process of finishing well including some books.

A blog post that he wrote for Lutheran Counseling Services about reaching out for what's next can be found here: https://lcsfl.com/news-resources/blog.html/article/2020/01/21/new-year-new-goals-new-decade-new-2020-vision-

You can reach Dr. Armstrong at [email protected] or http://lcsfl.com

Scott specializes in leadership coaching, consulting, coach and leadership training. You can subscribe to The Coaching Leader Podcast through ITunes, Google Play, Overcast and Stitcher. Check out Scott's blog at http://www.scottgress.com or contact him at [email protected].

Parish pastor and mission executive Rev. Mark Gerken talks about faith and leadership. He shares his insights both as a leadership practitioner at the local church level and as a mission executive working with many churches. He beautifully shares the integration of faith and leadership and shares how leadership is modeled and is like a marriage in addition to the role and benefits of coaching.

Dr Michael K Cheuk is a pastor, leader, ICF certified coach, public speaker and editor of Christian Coaching Magazine. Michael does a great job walking us through what that means, especially as Christians, and how we can approach this process and learning about ourselves and how that impacts our leadership. Along the way he also shares with us his work and service to others and the kingdom of God and in some ways is also a great follow up of the work shared last month by Pastor Keith Haney.

michaelkcheuk.com

christiancoachingmag.com

Church consultant and author Keith Haney shares his insights on leadership, coaching and working with churches. One aspect he focusses on is leadership transitions when the former leader retires or leaves and what is needed for the health and future of the church or organization they leave. From there we spend some time talking about his study entitled "Healing Racial Divides" which is a very timely and important matter in our society today. He gives some rich and timely insights which can bring true healing to people, relationships and our world. He concludes the interview with a particularly timely and important piece of encouragement for all fo us.

Keith Haney alightbreaksthrough.org [email protected] 515-573-0053

In this second part of the interview with Mike Mast he talks about culture change and leadership. He raises the question: What is your "why" and how does that frame and change what you do? Mike also addresses how coaching impacts everything.

Mike shares the wisdom of giving people the time and space to process things rather than being impatient. This is all a part of how to engage and connect with people. Then towards the end Mike shares how he asks people to take part in his version of the 40 day challenge.

You can contact mike at 708-990-0972 or [email protected]