This is a book about working with large teams of people. Whether your team involves 30 people or 3,000, the organizational dynamics are significantly different for a project manager used to dealing with smaller teams. As the project scales up in size and complexity, the processes and skills required change. As project leader, your focus moves from the technical aspects of project delivery to enabling, facilitating and integrating the different sub teams into a cohesive whole. Big Teams examines the research on team dynamics and the latest thinking on leadership in a project or program environment. It features stories and case studies based on interviews with project leaders from a range of major projects and programs. Structured around three core themes - Alignment, Engagement, and Resilience - it gives you invaluable, practical guidance on setting up and running an effective team of teams. As with all Tony Llewellyn's books, Big Teams is written in an accessible style with the focus on real-world application, but the academic underpinning is rigorous and will be a useful reference for any student studying project leadership.

Performance Coaching for Complex Projects recognises a world of complex undertakings for which the common transactional mindsets and methodologies will not produce the required results. The author advocates, instead, the novel concept that the project manager or team leader should coach the team as part of their role. Managing complexity requires greater use of influence and less reliance on coercion. Learning how to recognise the clues that reveal personal preferences, character traits and motivations will allow you to communicate in a way that recognises how different team members see the world. Team coaching helps the project team work together to think through their issues and then collectively implement the solution. Tony Llewellyn has structured his book in two parts. Part I looks at the challenges of complexity and makes the case for a shift from a transactional directive mindset to a transformational coaching philosophy. Part II introduces a model of project team coaching including the processes and methodologies that have been shown to be effective in improving team performance. Complex projects are invariably messy, not least because of the human factors associated with them. Performance Coaching for Complex Projects is essential reading for anyone responsible for managing in uncertain, challenging and changing environments.

55 proven tools and techniques to help team leaders and project managers improve team performance in a complex environment. The book also provides an introduction to the concept of team coaching as a distinct management activity.

Performance Coaching for Complex Projects recognises a world of complex undertakings for which the common transactional mindsets and methodologies will not produce the required results. The author advocates, instead, the novel concept that the project manager or team leader should coach the team as part of their role. Managing complexity requires greater use of influence and less reliance on coercion. Learning how to recognise the clues that reveal personal preferences, character traits and motivations will allow you to communicate in a way that recognises how different team members see the world. Team coaching helps the project team work together to think through their issues and then collectively implement the solution. Tony Llewellyn has structured his book in two parts. Part I looks at the challenges of complexity and makes the case for a shift from a transactional directive mindset to a transformational coaching philosophy. Part II introduces a model of project team coaching including the processes and methodologies that have been shown to be effective in improving team performance. Complex projects are invariably messy, not least because of the human factors associated with them. Performance Coaching for Complex Projects is essential reading for anyone responsible for managing in uncertain, challenging and changing environments.

For those with a teaching gift, figuring out the main points of a sermon is not really that difficult. But how many listeners tune out as they struggle to concentrate on what, to them, is nothing but a dry old sermon? Today, people seem to have shorter attention spans and battle with staying focused more than ever before. A technique that Jesus used in order to keep His listeners interested was story-telling. And it worked His sermons live on and are filled with visual illustrations of spiritual truths. There's no doubt that stories help people to understand your message and remember what you say long after they've forgotten your main points. Hot Sermon Illustrations contains almost 250 pages of anecdotes, quotations, jokes, and more, to spice up your sermon. Topically arranged, with over 300 categories, this book of sermon resources is essential to the library of every preacher or teacher.

One of the most baffling of Christian behaviours is the tendency to self-destruct. With all the best intentions, and having given their lives to Christ, they then set a course that inevitably steers them away from Christian success and maturity and towards self-inflicted pain and suffering. Since so many seem to set their sights on failure, this book has been written with the aim of giving advice on how to get to the bottom in style and as quickly as possible. How To Mess Up Your Life is not just a book of Christian humor, but a how-to manual providing systematic information on how to achieve a goal of complete spiritual collapse. Read this book to discover what not to do if you want to experience Christian success.

Up till the advent of the portable keyboard, the guitar for many years held the position of the number one selling instrument in the world. With good reason. The guitar is one of the few self-contained instruments - in other words, it can play melody, rhythm and harmony all on its own. It is also portable, relatively inexpensive, and one of a small number of instruments that is equally at home in all styles of music. From baroque to heavy metal, from rock to jazz, from country to blues, the guitar fits them all comfortably. As a solo instrument, in a band or for vocal accompaniment, the guitar has no equal. If you want to learn how to play the guitar, Accelerated Guitar Course is for you. The author draws on many years of teaching experience to help the student learn the basics as quickly as possible. Accelerated Guitar Course covers basic open chords, bar chords, strumming, finger picking, music reading, and more.

Need access to finger positions for all the most-used guitar scales at a glance? Tired of trying to expand scales over the entire guitar fretboard? Trying to figure out how different patterns for the same scale fit together? Guitar improvisation is based on this kind of information, and anyone wanting to play lead guitar would usually say a resounding "yes " to these questions. The Guitarists' Scale Manual is an essential tool for lead guitarists. Based on a 22-fret guitar, it shows fretboard diagrams for most of the scales you will ever want to use: major, harmonic minor, modes, major & minor pentatonic, blues, whole tone, diminished, and half-diminished scales are all included in one book. No transposing is necessary as each guitar scale is depicted separately in the various keys. If you're serious about solo guitar, Guitarists' Scale Manual is an essential tool of the trade.

Should Christians drink alcohol? Or should Christians abstain? This is an issue that has polarised Christians into two extreme viewpoints. And such a lot of unnecessary confusion So where do we find the answers to these questions? In The Alcohol Question, Pastor Tony Llewellyn explores the Old and New Testaments in the belief that God's Word, not human opinion, is the ultimate source of truth and that there is no higher authority than Scripture. This in-depth study on alcohol and the Christian will show you that, while the Bible clearly warns against drunkenness, there is nowhere in Scripture that prohibits Christians from drinking alcohol in moderation. In fact, the use of alcohol is part of the blessing of God and the freedom we have in Christ However, despite clear statements from the Bible, the debate rages. For instance, one argument put forward to "prove" that Christians should never drink alcohol is based on Proverbs 31:4: It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes intoxicating drink. Since the Bible tells us that we are kings, doesn't this verse tell us to abstain from alcohol? The Alcohol Question explains how you could only come to this conclusion if you take the verse completely out of context and ignore the rest of the passage. But what about arguments like: Alcohol is such a problem in the world that Christians should abstain for the sake of others. Or: Shouldn't Christian leaders set a higher standard in their conduct? These questions - and more - are dealt with in The Alcohol Question. But here's the flip side. With freedom comes responsibility and the principle of love. The Bible view is not legalism, nor is it selfishness, but responsible Christian freedom. Don't be left in the dark on this important topic. Buy The Alcohol Question now to discover what the Bible says about Christians and alcohol.

Common questions about God and Christianity often begin with "If God is a God of love..." These are usually important questions and Christians should not side-step the issues or get embarrassed as if there were no answers. Why are there wars? Why is there death? Why is there a hell? Why is there starvation? How do we explain these realities in the light of a God of love? For instance, if God is love, how do we explain the existence of hell? Does this not show that God is cruel and harsh? Or worse, that He does not exist at all? If God Is A God Of Love explains how, if God is love, there must be a hell. It cannot possibly be any other way. Another question is: Why is there starvation? Surely if God is a God of love there would be plenty for all? Either He does not exist, or He does not care, and thus, the blame is laid squarely at God's feet. However, this book demonstrates that it is not God's fault at all. He has provided more than enough for all, and human selfishness, not God's lovelessness, is to blame for the world's starvation problems. Easy to read and suitable for believers and seekers alike, these are just some of the questions answered in If God Is A God Of Love.

Ever wished you could write a song? Are you already a songwriter, but looking for ways to improve and techniques to apply to your craft? Written by an experienced songwriter and musician, Successful Songwriting contains practical instruction on how to write a song with examples taken from classic rock and gospel music. This book will teach you about writing lyrics through sections on lyrical hooks, rhyme types and patterns, imagery, song content and themes. Also included is information on rhythmic devices, creating a melody, song content, musical hooks, common chord progressions, as well as techniques for overcoming writer's block, and more. Successful Songwriting is designed for those who want to use and improve their creative talent for Christian songwriting.

Spiritual warfare is an area of Christian life that is easily relegated to one of two extremes. It is either seen as irrelevant in our enlightened times and therefore ignored. Or it is viewed as an activity to be engaged in on special occasions when the church participates in a spiritual warfare meeting. That's just what the devil would like us to think. This book is based on sound Biblical teaching that every Christian, like it or not, is involved in warfare daily. If you're serious about overcoming the devil, read this book. Topics covered include: Satan's greatest weapon, overcoming temptation, God's Word and other spiritual weapons, how to use the whole armor of God, the real meaning of "in Jesus' name," the power of the blood of Jesus, and more.

The Trinity is the belief that God is one God but expressed in three Persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Yet the so-called "Christian" cults reject the concept of the Trinity in favour of Unitarianism, the belief that the Father is God, the Son is special but still only the Son, and the Holy Spirit is merely God's active force. In fact, one of the most difficult to understand ideas taught in the Bible is the concept of the Trinity. Understanding The Trinity explains in simple terms what is essentially a very profound, divine truth. If you've ever struggled to explain to someone that the Trinity is a Biblical truth with important practical implications, and not just a concept for theologians to debate, this book is for you. Beginning in the Old Testament, Tony Llewellyn outlines how the inspired Jewish Scriptures foreshadowed the truth that God is more than one person, explains how the very name of God affirms His plurality, and reveals the teaching that the promised Messiah would be God Himself. In the New Testament, the Trinity is taught more explicitly and Understanding The Trinity delves into its teaching on the deity of Christ as well as looking at some of the objections. Also covered is information on why teaching on the Trinity really matters and the roles of the separate persons of the Godhead, including the Holy Spirit.