How to Lead When You're Not in Charge Study Guide: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

The greatest myth of leadership is that you must be in charge in order to lead.

In this six-session, video study (DVD/streaming video sold separately), based on the How to Lead When You're Not in Charge book, Clay Scroggins shares his first-hand leadership experience as a pastor and his discovery that great leaders aren't paralyzed by not being in a position of recognized authority… Great leaders lead with or without that authority and learn to unleash their positive influence wherever they are.

He explains the nature of leadership and what it takes to lead yourself and others well with or without that impressive title.

In this study you will:

• Learn to leverage influence instead of authority
• Create a game plan for leading yourself well 
• Change the energy of your team by choosing positivity
• Cultivate influence by thinking critically, not being critical
• Avoid the trap of passivity when you feel out of control
• Learn an effective way to challenge people in authority over you

 

How to Lead When You're Not in Charge Study Guide will free you to become the great leader you want to be so you can make a difference right where you are—whether it’s in your workplace, community, or church. Even when you're not in charge.

Sessions include: 

1. The Oddity of Leadership 
2. Lead Yourself 
3. Choose Positivity 
4. Think Critically 
5. Reject Passivity 
6. Challenging Up 

 

Designed for use with the How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge Video Study 9780310095934 (sold separately). 

Clay is the best-selling author of How To Lead When You're Not In Charge, and How To Lead In A World of Distraction. For over two decades he worked at North Point Ministries, starting as a facilities intern (a.k.a. vice president of nothing) and eventually becoming the lead pastor of their largest campus. Clay is now a sought-after leadership speaker, engaging audiences that include the Atlanta Hawks, Mercedes Benz, Chick-fil-A, Federal Reserve Bank, and Terminus. Clay graduated from Georgia Tech with an Industrial Engineering Degree and continued on to acquire a Masters and Doctorate from Dallas Theological Seminary. 
Clay and his wife, Jenny, have five children and live in Atlanta.