CBL Institute offers leadership development, mentoring, online personal assessments and discipleship to individuals, companies, universities, colleges and seminaries . All CBL offerings are led and taught by experienced business leaders that model integrity, character, trust, and servant leadership.

We believe in and are committed to equipping leaders from the inside out, moving individuals toward effective change and purpose.

We believe that the quality and model of leadership in an organization makes the difference. Our principles are based on a biblical world view and are readily transferable for today's marketplace. They are principles that are "good for business" as well as personal development.

Emerging and existing leaders will join seasoned and experienced business professionals crossing vocational and denominational lines each month to challenge and transform the mind, to identify a calling (servant leadership) and engage the heart in spiritual development.

We seek to answer these critical questions.

• How can I be a great leader?
• How can I help others achieve their goals?
• How can I do my best?
• How can I change me?
• What can I do to make a difference?

Personal online Assessment
This assessment provides you with an understanding of where you are now, your current strengths, leadership influence and primary development needs. It will also identify basic motivation that drives behavior, interests, and predispositions. It will help you know how you approach job assignments, solve problems and relate to people, handle stress and relate to the demands of leadership and management positions. It provides a benchmark for future development.

Servant Leadership
This seminar helps you understand the principles, practices and the paradox of a servant leader. Grasping the difference in leadership "by power" verses "by authority". Identifying the role and skills of servant leadership in the work place and exploring servant leadership paradoxes.

 CBL Servant Leadership Brochure download

Comment: "I have heard about servant leadership most of my life, but not until I attended this seminar did it really come together for me in understanding the paradox, the richness of this model of leadership." David, Murphy Business and Financial Corporation

Interpersonal Skills/Emotional Intelligence
In this seminar you will be given the tools to become aware of, and properly responding to, the emotional world.. Someone commented "deal with your emotions or your emotions will deal with you". "Learn how to deal with others emotions or their emotions will deal with you".

How do you relate to people? 80% of people who fail in their work do so for one reason.no people skills. Knowing how to engage people different from them is critical to ones success.

Comment: "Excellent course! Not only will this improve my interpersonal skills at work but also in my personal life. I wish I had taken this course 10 year ago!" Jean, El Paso Corp.

High Performance Teams
This seminar teaches the characteristics of effective teams and how to build and mature a team including communication among team members, defining roles and creating synergy among the team,. These are skills needed to become an effective team leader. The primary difference between a team and any other type of group is synergism. This course explores the dysfunctions of a team and how these dysfunctions can derail a team.

Comment: "The instructor was great.the more relaxed atmosphere made it easy to want to contribute to the discussions." Larry, Rosetta Resources

Advance Leadership Development
In this seminar the critical skills of effective leadership are explored as they relate to the "who" and "what" of a leader. Participants will leave the course with an assessment of their own skills in execution, change, inspiring those you lead, social intelligence, character, communication, and life long learning.

Comment: Fabulous! Every leader and emerging leader should attend. Actually, every person should attend this training! Heather, Duke Energy

Leader to Leader Interactive Leadership Forums
The CBL Institute Interactive Leadership Forum is a unique safe approach to advanced leadership development and coaching.

The Interactive Leadership Forum is a two hour leader to leader forum in which peers help each other understand their strengths personally, professionally and spiritually. The forum has broad application for measuring human behavior and occupational strengths based off an online Birkman assessment that will offer both descriptive and prescriptive information for the individual describing desires, strengths, and motivational needs stress reactions and provide basic recommendations for developing skills when faced with varying environments and people. This helps individuals manage life, and work situations in ways that fulfill their motivational needs and govern frustrations where stress can cause reactions that so often damage relationships and occupational effectiveness.

These forums will explore for and with the leader of: When you are at your best What you need Things to work on

Professionally Your leadership style Your management style What kind of team player you are Best ways for others to manage you Your limitations Your possible ineffective tactics in meetings How your incentive others Career focus suggestions

Personally Biggest mistakes others can make with you How you fit in organizationally You as a self starter Your organizational strengths How best to talk to you How best to incentive you Motivators and effective/ineffective behavior

Spiritually Your prayer life Seeing God as the Father Studying the Bible Your relationship with your husband/wife Your relationship with your child Your relationship with your parent or guardian Sharing the faith

The Formation of a Biblical Worldview
Everyone has a worldview, but few have one that is biblical. Only 4% of adults of America have a biblical worldview according to George Barna.

World view is a term used to describe the belief system by which a person understand or makes decisions about the world. One of the most prominent modern-day worldviews is postmodernism-a belief system that rejects the notion of absolute truth. That is often expressed in the statement, “That may be true for you but it’s not true for me.”

National research has discovered and not surprisingly that adults without a biblical worldview and those with a worldview had vastly different views of immoral and unethical behavior. Barna goes on to say the primary reason that people do not act like Jesus is because they do not think like Jesus. Behavior stems from what we think, our attitudes, beliefs, values and opinions.

In the seminar “The Formation of a Biblical Worldview” one will be equip with the tools necessary to develop a sound biblical worldview. Topics will include:

• What is a Worldview?
• Modern-Day Worldviews
  1. Christian Theism
  2. Deism
  3. Naturalism
  4. Nihilism
  5. Existentialism
  6. Postmodernism
  7. New Age/Pantheism
• Natural Law and a Pluralistic Society
• The Foundation of the Law
• The Cultivation of virtues
• Engaging a Pagan Culture
  

 
The law of the leader "Can lead others only as far as he or she has gone."

CBL's Institute offers these seminars to your company, campus or organization for in-house or on campus training by certified CBL trainers. You may select one or all of the above seminars. Please complete the information request form to the right to be contacted by CBL about bringing the Institute to your area.