Teach Your Team to Fish Using Ancient Wisdom

Jesus Built an Inspired Team. You Can, Too. Laurie Beth Jones has given hundreds of thousands of business readers insight into how the ideas of Jesus can be used to enhance performance. InTeach Your Team to Fish, Jones focuses on one of the most critical areas for anyone in business: teamwork. Leaders today face their greatest challenges not only in defining strategies and getting updated information but also in getting diverse human beings to pull together without falling apart. Jesus is a role model for team leaders everywhere.Teach Your Team to Fishoffers dozens of stories from the Bible, showing how Jesus managed his team of disciples and other followers, with suggestions for how to apply these lessons to real-world teambuilding and management problems. It offers guidance and inspiration on: How to excite your team members in order to motivate them How to ground them so they'll be realistic about what can be achieved How to transform them into a truly well-functioning team How to release them into the world to improve teams elsewhere Laurie Beth Jones provides many examples of companies in which teams work well together and offers lessons that can help team leaders everywhere sustain themselves and achieve their common goals.

LAURIE BETH JONES is the author of the national bestsellers Jesus, CEO; Jesus in Blue Jeans; and The Path. She is an acclaimed speaker whose topics include leadership and management skills and teambuilding. She also consults one on one with CEOs and leadership teams and trains facilitators to help coach their organizations, departments, and groups. For more information, visit her website at www.jesusceo.com. From the Hardcover edition.

Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
He Excited Them	p. 1
He Turned Work into Cause	p. 3
He Taught Community	p. 6
He Gave a Clear Path to Advancement	p. 11
He Went Small in Order to Go Big	p. 17
He Elevated the Dialogue	p. 20
He Knew the Power of Presentation	p. 25
He Taught Them to Burn Their Bridges	p. 28
He Embodied the Mission	p. 31
He Managed Remote Teams Through Prayer	p. 35
He Valued Results Over Face Time	p. 39
He Ran a Family Business	p. 43
He Turned Criticism into Collaboration	p. 46
He Taught the SQM Method	p. 50
He Grounded Them	p. 55
He Prepared Them for Adversity	p. 57
He Taught Stewardship, Not Ownership	p. 61
He Used Cross-Industry Benchmarking	p. 66
He Valued Diversity	p. 70
He Conducted Regular Internal Audits	p. 74
He Survived Organizational Leaks	p. 78
He Understood Mergers and Acquisitions	p. 81
He Taught There Was No "Them"	p. 85
He Took It to the Bone	p. 88
He Taught Unusual Thinking	p. 92
He Identified Causes of Failure	p. 96
He Trained at All Levels of the Organization	p. 101
He Practiced Restraint	p. 105
He Transformed Them	p. 109
He Taught Transformation, Not Transactions	p. 111
He Turned the Pyramid Into a Circle	p. 118
He Practiced the Rule of Seven	p. 124
He Kept Them Informed	p. 128
He Showed Them What a Good Day Was Like	p. 132
He Rewarded Assertiveness	p. 135
He Was Kind, But Not Always Nice	p. 138
He Went Deep in Order to Go Wide	p. 141
He Identified Coachable Moments	p. 144
He Chose His Battles	p. 148
He Didn't Smash the Gnat and Lose the Camel	p. 152
He Released Them	p. 157
He Turned Everyone into a Recruiter	p. 159
He Released Their Genius	p. 163
He Sent Them Out Unencumbered	p. 167
He Kept It Simple	p. 170
He Didn't Yell "Cowards!" as the Crowd Departed	p. 175
He Knew There Was a Little Bit of Crazy in All of Us	p. 178
He Made Them Feel Welcome	p. 181
He Led Them to Face Their Unfaceables	p. 185
He Made Training the Reward	p. 189
He Shared Responsibility for Customer Satisfaction	p. 192
Epilogue	p. 195
Acknowledgments	p. 197
Index	p. 199
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