Transform Your Leadership: Leading Through Crisis

Stephen Fogarty
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Welcome

Welcome to the short course on Transform Your Leadership: Leading Through Crisis! We hope you enjoy your learning experience as you dive into this important and impactful topic.

Topic 1: What is a Crisis?

Just like Covid-19 had a significant impact on church life, navigating crisis is central to keeping a church body and community strong. In this topic, you will uncover some key essentials to dealing with crisis.

Topic 2: Leading Before a Crisis

Setting a strong foundation for good leadership, paves a way for navigating any unforeseen crisis. This topic helps you to journey through some key aspects to laying that foundation and why it’s important.

Topic 3: Leading During a Crisis

Be a leader that brings people together in hope and maintains vision during a crisis. In this topic, Steve will introduce you to skills on how to manage a crisis better, by formulating an effective plan of control and how to assess the meaning of events, while staying focused on effective leadership.

Topic 4: Leading After a Crisis

Effective leaders need strategy during, before and after a crisis. Effective crisis leadership is characterised by rapid innovation, under stress. This topic will explore what management tools are needed in order to help you successfully and strategically navigate a crisis in its last and final stage.

Summary

In this micro-credential, we covered four topics that relate to leading through crisis:

  1. What is a crisis?
  2. Leading before a crisis
  3. Leading during a crisis
  4. Leading after a crisis
About Your Lecturer
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Stephen Fogarty
Professor Stephen Fogarty is President of AC, a self-accrediting higher education provider and the national training college of Australian Christian Churches. He has held this position since 1999. His role involves providing leadership to the academic and administrative staff and students of the College and representing the College to its various constituencies. Stephen was born and raised in Western Australia. He is married to Sandra, and they have three married adult children and five grandchildren. He enjoys running marathons, reading literature, attending symphony concerts, and following the Sydney Swans AFL team. Prior to his role at Alphacrucis, Stephen had many years' involvement in pastoral ministry and has pioneered three churches. Stephen has earned a Diploma of Bible and Ministry, a Bachelor of Arts (Economics), a Master of Arts (Theology), and a PhD in Organisational Leadership. His research explores transformational and servant leadership, and the relationship between leadership and follower motivation. He frequently presents at conferences and seminars and speaks at churches, colleges, and conferences. Stephen’s research focuses on Organisational Leadership, Church Leadership, and Volunteer Motivation. His book, 'Light a Fire: How to Effectively Motivate Volunteers in Your Church,' examines the relationship between leader behaviour and volunteer motivation. He chairs the Asia Pacific Theological Association, Alphacrucis College New Zealand, and is a board member of Asia Pacific Theological Seminary and the World Alliance for Pentecostal Theological Education. Stephen is a member of the Pastoral Theology and Ministry research cluster.
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