Center for Leadership Excellence plans business, church events
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Lipscomb University's Center for Leadership Excellence will offer several major programs for church and business leaders.
The "Spring Leadership Dialogue Series" will be held on March 7 and April 4 at 7:30 p.m. in Swang 108. The March event will feature Dr. Archie Dykes, chairman of the board of PepsiAmericas Inc., Chicago, and Capital City Holdings Inc., Nashville. Dykes is also former chancellor of The University of Tennessee and The University of Kansas.
The April program will feature Russ Moxley, senior fellow and director of nonprofit initiatives for the Center for Creative Leadership, a nonprofit research and educaitonal organization in Greensboro, N.C.
The center is also planning to offer its first "Renaissance Seminar," a nine-month-long series of one-day seminars for managers in educational, governmental, and corporate organizations seeking renewal.
"The seminar is designed to pull leaders from inside their organizations, where they are often constantly pressured with the call of duty within that organization, and to furnish time for reading, reflection and renewal," said Dr. Grady Bogue, consulting scholar to the Center for Leadership Excellence.
Full information about this programs is available by calling 615.269.1789, or e-mail grady.bogue [at] lipscomb.edu.
The center will also present "Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution" at this summer's Elders/Preachers Workshop, set for June 8. Church leaders are responsible for preventing unnecessary conflict, resolving conflicts and encouraging reconciliation, and for managing conflict toward positive outcomes and strategic growth, Bogue said.
"The ability to recognize conflict as a signal of difference, to discern both the constructive and destructive valence of conflict, and to manage conflict with patient tending and wisdom is an important conceptual and practical skill for church leaders," Bogue said.
For reservations or housing, call 615.386.7653 or e-mail amy.hamar @lipscomb.edu.