{"id":34696,"date":"2024-01-08T13:16:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T21:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=34696"},"modified":"2024-01-08T13:16:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T21:16:59","slug":"welcome-to-leadership-bootcamp-are-you-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/welcome-to-leadership-bootcamp-are-you-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Leadership Bootcamp! Are you Ready?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone recently asked me why I decided to begin a doctoral program when it seemed, at least in their eyes, completely unnecessary in my personal and professional life as a local church pastor. Since I had wrestled with that same question myself before beginning the program, I answered with a metaphor: I shared with them that I had signed up for something like a physical training bootcamp, whipping me into shape. But instead of physical exercise and health, this bootcamp would train me to be a better leader, reader, writer and thinker. While they still weren\u2019t convinced this was necessary in my life, they at least connected with the metaphor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It seems appropriate then, that the first post of this new semester is an evaluation of where I currently am in my own abilities to read, write and take notes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As far as reading is concerned, it is something that I’ve always enjoyed. I feels like a feast when I have time to read and learn in such a way that stimulates my thinking and gives me new perspectives on each day. But while I have loved reading and have continued to read because, as the axiom goes, “leaders are readers” that rate at which I read and the types of reading I do are pretty consistent and slow. I was overjoyed, then, when the first book assigned to us for this course was, “How to Read a Book” (Adler). I am excited about learning to read in various ways for various purposes, and particularly keen on evaluating my own thought processes while I read and the investigate questions that I will learn how to ask.<\/p>\n

In regard to note taking, the “How to Take Smart Notes” book already has me thinking about ways to store my notes, collect them and interact with them so that they all don’t simply become ‘fleeting notes’ as Ahren’s calls them. I usually lose most of my notes because I write them down by hand, but never in organized locations. I’m beginning to use one notebook for all things DLGP and Obsidian as a way to save and utilize notes in research for this program and for other areas of my life.<\/p>\n

Finally, I’m excited about this bootcamp forcing me to write more. I am an external processor and a communicator by trade, so the exercise and discipline of writing on a more regular basis is one that I am eager to sharpen and receive consistent feedback on over these next few years together so that I can improve as a thinker, communicator and contributor to conversations that are important to the people that I am called to serve.<\/p>\n

So, I’m embracing these areas of learning as one who realizes they are out of shape but am eager and willing to do the work needed to be the best version of myself for the sake of those around me and the work I am called to do next. Here’s to a great year of learning ahead together!<\/p>\n

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