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The right concepts at the right time can be very helpful to leaders and their teams. One of Jay’s strengths is providing helpful content through teaching and keynote speaking, equipping and empowering audiences large or small. Be it a corporate retreat or a conference setting, the concepts The Emporia Group provides will serve well the development of your team or the content of your conference.
While Jay enjoys building customized presentations for a given setting, and will gladly engage in any way with your team or conference, here are his five most requested workshops/messages:
2020 changed a lot of things, not least of all the way we think about and approach work. With this teaching, Jay explores the future of work in a post-pandemic era.
Collaboration is a business and education buzzword, but few leaders stop to really think it through. Collaboration is so much more than teamwork and it requires and intentionality and order that should not be overlooked.
There is so fast-track to healthy leadership. Humility is forged through intentionality, challenge, and deep personal work, and that humility is the most important thing a leader can pursue. It can be a difficult journey with an elusive goal though. What is humility and how does one pursue humility without becoming proud? If humility is the goal, isn’t that pride? Good stuff to explore here.
For teams that embrace a historically Christian approach to what they do, this workshop serves to de-sensationalize, de-mythologize, and make practical a widely misunderstood concept in the Church: spiritual warfare. Healthy teams know how to identify unhealthy cycles, and this workshop is key for navigating those journeys.
In western business culture, striving and workaholism is the name of the game. Time is the chief commodity traded on the open market today and no one has enough of it. This leads to power plays and often exhaustion on the part of leaders because no person is made to lead from a posture of striving. Rather, we lead from rest. This counter-cultural workshop will challenge and inspire a different way of thinking about the foundation of leadership.
Love is Better than Trust
…at least interpersonally it is. As noted in last month’s post “The Illusion of Trust”, nowhere are humans called to trust one another. The very building blocks of who we are as relational beings presuppose relational brokenness in and amongst us. The Scriptures assume things like offense, hurt, and misunderstanding, leading us to embrace the rhythms of confession, repentance, forgiveness, reconciliation, and hope.
Too often, these rhythms are not needed in our relationships because we are so shallow with one another. Much of that shallow way of living is because we don’t know who or what we can trust in another person. When trust is the ideal, the relationship by definition will trend toward …
Philippians 4:13