LIVING YOUR STRENGTHS - CATHOLIC EDITION: DISCOVER YOUR GOD-GIVEN TALENTS AND INSPIRE YOUR COMMUNITY

Even in a country as religious as the U.S., many people feel disengaged from their faith communities. More than half report that they really don't get the opportunity in their congregation to do what they do best. People just feel disconnected.

Maybe it's because those faith communities make unwitting missteps: Too many people's talents are going unappreciated.

But it doesn't have to be this way. Living Your Strengths shows readers how to use their innate gifts to enrich their faith communities. The book — written by onetime pastors Albert Winseman and Curt Liesveld, and Donald O. Clifton, co-author of the national bestseller Now, Discover Your Strengths — shows people how to identify and affirm their talents, and how to use them for growth and service. Most importantly, Living Your Strengths helps people discover their true calling.

EXPANDING YOUR STRENGTHS

Wouldn’t it be great if everyone knew and understood their strengths so we could all work together more effectively? Now you can take the next step to advance the strengths mission. Expanding Your Strengths introduces you to theme dynamics and includes access to an interactive Web app you can use with the people you manage and coach. The portability of the Web app allows you to pull it up on your desktop, phone or tablet or on third-party devices. Access the Web app anywhere — from your own office to a client’s conference room to a college classroom — for coaching sessions, one-on-one discussions or high-level meetings.

This powerful resource allows you to dynamically select theme pairings, see how different talent themes combine and complement each other, and explore the StrengthsFinder talent themes one by one. Take your relationships to the next level. Use this book and Web app to create stronger teams, coach friends and associates, and develop your employees.

THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION PLAYBOOK - APEST FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD: A SIX WEEK EXPLORATION

For far too long now the church has tried to extend the logic and impact of Jesus's ministry on its own terms. And yet there is clear guidance from Scripture itself as to how the church can be the fullness of Christ in the world. A vital part of the answer to a renewed ministry in the church, one capable of matching the challenges we face, is found in Ephesians 4:1-16. 

Every time the explicit teaching of the text has been is taken seriously and properly integrated into the life of God's people, history has been in the making. 

This playbook (developed from the award winning The Permanent Revolution) is designed to introduce the disciple to his or her own, Jesus-given, vocational profile. This is important for all of God's people, because discovering your ministry will give you a direct clue to your distinctive contribution in the world.

MULTIPLIERS: HOW THE BEST LEADERS MAKE EVERYONE SMARTER

A thought-provoking, accessible, and essential exploration of why some leaders (“Diminishers”) drain capability and intelligence from their teams, while others (“Multipliers”) amplify it to produce better results. Including a foreword by Stephen R. Covey, as well the five key disciplines that turn smart leaders into genius makers, Multipliers is a must-read for everyone from first-time managers to world leaders.

FOR A NEW GENERATION

In For a New Generation, Lee Kricher outlines five practical change strategies for church leaders and members who are committed to reversing or avoiding church decline. This book is not about changing your church's statement of faith. It is about evaluating and changing, as needed, your church's programs, ministries and practices to ensure the long-term health and vitality of your church. 

THE PURPOSEFUL GRADUATE: WHY COLLEGES MUST TALK TO STUDENTS ABOUT VOCATION

We all know that higher education has changed dramatically over the past two decades. Historically a time of exploration and self-discovery, the college years have been narrowed toward an increasingly singular goal—career training—and college students these days forgo the big questions about who they are and how they can change the world and instead focus single-mindedly on their economic survival. In The Purposeful Graduate, Tim Clydesdale elucidates just what a tremendous loss this is, for our youth, our universities, and our future as a society. At the same time, he shows that it doesn’t have to be this way: higher education can retain its higher cultural role, and students with a true sense of purpose—of personal, cultural, and intellectual value that cannot be measured by a wage—can be streaming out of every one of its institutions.

THE LANGUAGE OF BLESSING: DISCOVER YOUR OWN GIFTS AND TALENTS... LEARN HOW TO POUR THEM OUT TO BLESS OTHERS

Most people have no idea who they were created to be, nor what their own unique gifts and talents are. So how can we recognize and affirm these things in others—especially if we were not encouraged ourselves as we were growing up? How can we change course and learn a language of blessing that will lead to positive change in all of our key personal and professional relationships? In The Language of Blessing, Joe Cavanaugh gives us practical tools to recognize our own gifts and those of others and to use our newfound “language” to bless the ones we care about, breaking a destructive generational cycle and setting a new course for our loved ones’ futures.

MORE: FIND YOUR PERSONAL CALLING AND LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST MEASURE

More meets Christians where they’re at, acknowledging the roots of their discontent and demonstrating how to move from inspiration and desire into action. Church strategist and ministry activator Todd Wilson shows how all believers can live more abundant lives around the uniqueness of how they were made and what they are called to do.

UNREPEATABLE: CULTIVATING THE UNIQUE CALLING OF EVERY PERSON

What if we were able to gain profound insight into the unique design, creative drive, and potential destiny of the people in our lives? The bold promise of this book is that we can.

This ability carries an awesome responsibility: We must all be mentors and midwives to the personal vocations of others.

Unrepeatable is about the urgent need for each of us to cultivate the vocations of others and the steps we should take to do it well.

DESIGNING YOUR LIFE: HOW TO BUILD A WELL-LIVED, JOYFUL LIFE

In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.

EVERYONE LEADS: HOW TO REVITALIZE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

The Catholic Church is suffering its worst decline in five centuries—a precipitous slide that will turn catastrophic unless reversed by fundamental changes in strategy, culture, and leadership style. Even the inspiring leadership of Pope Francis will not reverse the slide without a strategy for action, from the grassroots through the hierarchy. Chris Lowney, a former Jesuit seminarian and business executive who now chairs one of the world’s largest Catholic ministries, not only outlines the challenges but also maps the path forward in Everyone Leads. 

SOULS AND HEARTS RESOURCES FOR HELPING PROFESSIONALS

Souls and Hearts was developed to meet the needs of practicing Catholics who struggle with the everyday challenges of life. The following are some of the most useful resources for helping professionals to share with those they accompany.

COACHING VS. CONSULTING

The Human Formation Coalition promotes a coach approach to accompaniment for individuals, leaders, and organizations. This document from the National Eucharistic Revival excellently explains the differences between coaching and consulting. Further, it explains how to take a grassroots coach approach to creating a movement within an organization to foster a eucharistic revival.

THE PASTORAL CONVERSION OF THE PARISH COMMUNITY AT THE SERVICE OF THE EVANGELIZING MISSION OF THE CHURCH

The ecclesiological reflection of the Second Vatican Council and the remarkable social and cultural changes of the last decades have led several particular Churches to reorganize the form of entrusting the pastoral care of parish communities. This made it possible to start new experiences, enhancing the dimension of communion and implementing, under the guidance of the pastors, a harmonious synthesis of charisms and vocations at the service of the proclamation of the Gospel, which best corresponds to today's needs for evangelization.