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- Embracing Conflict-Finding Peace in the Midst of TensionRecently published, the book is a part of the Handbook for Spiritual Leaders. Divided into three part, Fundamentals, Scriptural Principles and Practical Hints and Helps the resource helps leaders to understand the underlying causes of conflict and how to successfully navigate through the event. The book contains an Engagement Styles Test based on biblical virtues for self awareness. Recent reviews: Order at http://spirituallead.com/store.
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Books I'm Currently Reading (C) or I Recommend (R)
Os Guinness: The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life
(R) For anyone who is wanting to better understand God's calling for each of our lives.Walter Wright: Relational Leadership (Revised Edition): A Biblical Model for Influence and Service
(R) A foundational, well written, easy-to-comprehend source book on spiritual leadershipRobert D. Kuest: Uncommon Relationships: Bringing Healing and Joy to Our Christian Experience
(C) Bob Kuest is a leadership teacher to pastors in foreign countries. Bob's metaphor of shield and spear is taken from his ministry to pastors in Central East Africa. This book is a follow-on to his first book, Uncommon Leadership.Daniel H. Pink: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
(C) Challenges conventional thinking and practices about what motivates people to do what they do.Edwin H. Friedman: A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix
Profound systems view of all relationships - family, organization, polical. It will rock your foundations.Warren Bennis: On Becoming a Leader: The Leadership Classic
(R) One of the giants of leadership reseach and practice. Watch for key thoughts from the book posted each Friday.- Ronald Kuest: Embracing Conflict--Finding Peace in the Midst of Tension
(R) Comprehensive view of what interpersonal conflict is, what Scripture says about conflict and conflict resolution and practical steps to successfully resolve it. Engagement (Conflict) Style Test included. To order, go to http://www.spirituallead.com/store/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=4&idproduct=52 Robert E. Quinn: Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within (Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series)
(R)Good reading for anyone ready to reexamine how you do "business" as a leader.Arbinger Institute: The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict
(R)The prequel to Leadership and Self Deception.Institute of Arbinger: Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
(R)Simple and personally impactful in realizing our own self-justifying behaviors that put us into the box of self-betrayal. I use it extensively in my consulting and coaching.Robert Kuest: Uncommon Leadership
(R) Well written, foundational teaching on Christ-focused servant leadership.
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Spiritual leadership coach, human resource consultant, author and principle in the Institute for Spiritual Leadership Training.
Biography
Meet Ron Kuest
I have been a growing Christian since the early 70s. Trained as a pharmacist, I had the unique circumstance to be in executive leadership roles in Washington State government while still in my mid 20s. At 26 I had the incredible opportunity to establish and administer the crime laboratory and the drug enforcement unit for the State of Washington.
Since 1980 my wife Pat and I have owned a human resources consulting business, MBG Management Services, Inc. Through it we have the opportunity to work with over five hundred companies in the Pacific Northwest providing drug free workplace programs, supervisor training, and employee awareness materials. We also help companies, government agencies and spiritual leaders solve problems and build skills through leadership and organizational development programs and on-site consulting. One of my greatest joys is one-on-one mentoring as well as leadership and life coaching.
For 12 years I served as a deacon and presently serve on the leadership team with Pastor Dale Oquist, Evergreen Christian Community, Olympia, WA. where we’ve created a spiritual leadership training program. For 13 years my wife and I invested our time as volunteer leaders in youth ministry and presently serve on the Young Adults/Young Marrieds ministry team and serve as a leadership coach and principle architect of the spiritual leadership curricula at ECC.
Pat has been my encourager, helpmate, friend and wife for over 46 years. We are the parents of three adult children who I consider the jewels of my leadership efforts.
The Institute for Spiritual Leadership Training and the SpiritualLead.com web site are the products of 30 years of preparation-a work still in progress. In June, 1975, while still head of the drug enforcement and crime laboratory system for Washington State, I received as I understood it, a clear prophetic word that management and leadership training would be my future. The next 30 years took me in several directions but literally every experience prepared me for this current ministry.
In the past several years I've had the privilege to mentor pastors as they plant churches, be an advisor/confidant to established pastors and ministries, conduct seminars in the U.S. and abroad and develop curriculum and train spiritual leaders for my home church.
