About How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge Study Guide: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority
Are you letting your lack of authority paralyze you?
One of the greatest myths of leadership is that you must be in charge in order to lead. Great leaders don’t buy it. Great leaders lead with or without the authority and learn to unleash their influence wherever they are.
With practical wisdom and humor, Clay Scroggins will help you nurture your vision and cultivate influence, even when you lack authority in your organization. And he will free you to become the great leader you want to be so you can make a difference right where you are. Even when you’re not in charge.
In this six-session video study (video sold separately), author and pastor Clay Scroggins explains what is needed to be a great leader—even when you answer to someone else.
Sessions include:
The Oddity of Leadership
Lead Yourself
Choose Positivity
Think Critically
Reject Passivity
Challenging Up
Designed for use with the How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge Video Study (9780310095958), sold separately.
- Complete Title: How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge Study Guide: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority
- Format: Paperback
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 112
- Publication Time: April 24, 2018
- Publisher: HarperChristian Resources
- ISBN: 031009593X
- ISBN13: 9780310095934
About Clay Scroggins
Clay Scroggins
Clay Scroggins is lead pastor of North Point Community Church (NPCC), where he provides visionary and directional leadership for the local church staff and congregation in Alpharetta, Georgia. As the original and largest campus of North Point Ministries, ranked by Outreach Magazine in 2014 as the largest church in America, NPCC averages over 12,000 people in attendance.
Clay works for Andy Stanley (“one of the greatest leaders on the planet” according to Clay) and understands firsthand how to manage the tension of leading when you’re not in charge. Starting out as a facilities intern (a.k.a. “vice president of nothing”), Clay worked his way through many organizational levels at North Point Ministries and knows all too well the challenge of authority deprivation.
Clay holds a degree in industrial engineering from Georgia Tech. During his years at Georgia Tech, he volunteered with the high school ministry at NPCC and discovered a passion to help students find a faith of their own. Also during that season, Clay attended a Bible study led by Louie Giglio, and a relationship developed that allowed Clay to be involved with Passion Conferences. At Dallas Theological Seminary, Clay earned a master’s degree as well as a doctorate with an emphasis in online church.
Reviews How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge Study Guide: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority
Michael
I am not Christian. By any means. I grew up protestant, but that ended quickly–like age 7. I don’t believe in organized religion by any stretch of the imagination, but I do believe in spirituality.I…
Erik Madsen
You’ll enjoy this book if you’re looking for the intersection of repetitive explanations, management cliches and God’s plan. I wasn’t looking for that…
Jason Barmer
There are some good insights in this book about having influence in your workplace even when you aren’t the one calling all the shots. My most significant takeaway from this read was that when we see…
Amy
2023 ReviewThis is one of those books that manages to convict me no matter what stage of life I am in or when I re-read it. Each time I see another layer of my excuses and resentments exposed as mere…
Christopher Litsinger
I choose to read this book with someone I mentor, who is in a technical role, but working to influence their organization. This was a huge mistake. I feel betrayed by this book.First of all, this book…
Kelsey Grissom
Few things are more obnoxious to me than a writer who spends the entire book trying to be cute…
Donna
This is Nonfiction/Business and surprisingly, as well as unexpectedly, it had lots of biblical references. I wasn’t expecting the latter at all. The author is a pastor and he wove leadership and spiri…
Hannah
I really enjoyed the practicality of this book. Just because you’re not in charge, doesn’t mean you can think of ways to help add to the ministry or job you are involved in. Doing so requires wisd…
George P.
My friend Carter McDaniels reviewed this book for InfluenceMagazine.com, but I thought I’d give my two-cents’ worth too:“Influence always outpaces authority,” writes Clay Scroggins. “And leaders…