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 Scroggins is the lead pastor of North Point Community Church, providing visionary and directional leadership for all of the local church staff and congregation. As the original and largest campus of North Point Ministries, ranked by Outreach Magazine in 2014 as the Largest Church in America, NPCC averages over 12,000 people in attendance. Clay works for Andy Stanley, one of the greatest leaders on the planet, and understands firsthand how to manage the tension of leading when you're not in charge.

Starting out as a facilities intern (a.k.a. Vice-President of Nothing), he has worked his way through many organizational levels of North Point Ministries and knows all too well the challenge of authority deprivation. Clay holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech as well as a Master's degree and doctorate with an emphasis in Online Church from Dallas Theological Seminary. He lives in Forsyth County, Georgia, with his wife, Jenny, and their four children.