Leadership Track

Accelerate Your Growth with Proven Training for Leaders

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Unlock Your Leadership Potential

Being an effective Christian leader requires discovery of purpose, character development, healthy habits and sustainable routines. This track is designed to help you practically apply leadership skills you will learn. CLI is designed for individuals in the marketplace or ministry who desire to lead with purpose.

For Individuals
For Christian Based Companies
For Churches

Leadership Track Benefits

The Leadership Track features online courses for leaders to develop leadership skills effectively. The leadership training program encompasses practical content that helps you build your leadership abilities and discover your leadership style. The leadership development track is perfect for individuals with careers in any field. The Leadership Track provides a clear path to enhancing your leadership abilities and equipping you for success.

Discover Your Leadership Style

Through assessments and dialogue, discover how you uniquely navigate commonplace circumstances, at home and in the workplace.

Equip Yourself For Success

Acquire the necessary skills and resources to handle the inevitable challenges we all face day-to-day in personal and/or professional relationships.

Join A Supportive Community

Through smaller Equip Groups and live instruction, you will be a part of a support system ready to walk with you in your journey of growth and learning.

Leadership Track Courses

CLI offers various leadership and development courses to enhance skills and foster professional growth. Each course combines instruction with practical training and guidance, providing a comprehensive developmental experience.

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Emotional Intelligence & Time Management

In this course, you’ll take an assessment to learn how well you emotionally connect with others, discover your potential blind spots, and learn ways to manage and structure your time and grow in leadership.

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Being An Ideal Team Player

In this course, you'll learn how to be an ideal team player and how to become humble, hungry, and smart in your leadership. You will learn how to clothe yourself with humility so you can practice servant leadership.

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Group Dynamics

In this course, you will learn how to understand the five dysfunctions of a team. Once you understand these dysfunctions, you will be able to identify them and change the culture of your team through effective communication tools.

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Leadership Character

In this course, you will discover the importance of godly character in your leadership. Your skills have the ability to elevate you, but character is what keeps you there.

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Leadership Priorities

In this leadership course, you will learn how to manufacture healthy, sustainable habits and priorities, and prioritize your essential responsibilities. 

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Leadership That Lasts

In this course, you will discover that many leaders start, but few finish well. This course is designed to help you identify the ten most common mistakes that leaders make and then learn effective practices to help you avoid these pitfalls in your leadership.

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Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

In this course, you’ll understand that it is impossible to become spiritually mature without first becoming emotionally mature. We will discuss how to develop a rule of life to help manage your routines to foster spiritual development.

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Managing Leadership Anxiety

In this leadership class, you will learn how anxiety, grief, background, and family, affect your mental health and ultimately your leadership. When you understand the source of your anxiety, you can then learn ways to help you in these situations.

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Boundaries

In this course, you will learn to identify and set healthy boundaries that are essential for personal life and ministry. Instead of falling into the trap of many leaders, feeling the need to have all the answers, you will learn to identify your core values in order to be empowered to set the boundaries needed to thrive.

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Theology Basics

In this course, you will gain a basic overview of these complex subjects. As a Christian leader, either in ministry or the marketplace, it is essential for you to have a basic understanding of what the Bible says about life and leadership.

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Developing Your Spiritual Practices

In this course, you will have a safe environment where you can learn to connect with God in real and tangible ways. Spiritual practices are so important, as they allow you to connect with God in new interactive ways, enabling you to become more like him. This will allow you to reflect his character to those you lead.

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Empowerment of The Holy Spirit

In this course, you will learn to be empowered by the Holy Spirit through a partnership with God rather than a reliance on independence to produce life changes within and for others.

Lead Year Two Courses

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Crucial Conversations

Gain effective models for influential communication and crucial conversations. Relationships are difficult, and conversations can be hard. This course will provide you with tools and communication skills needed to navigate difficult conversations with those you lead.

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Effective Communication

Explore the art of storytelling as a leader. Jesus was the ultimate example of storytelling in leadership to effectively impact lives. This course will teach you the skills needed for telling great stories; better equipping you to cast vision and create a culture for those you lead.

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The Power of Moments

Learn the power of life's high and low moments in this leadership course. As a leader, you need to understand the importance of strategic moments for individuals and your organization and key concepts of making a meaningful moment to create impactful experiences for those you lead.

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The Vision Driven Leader

Learn how to discover a vision for your leadership context, and how to communicate it to others. Vision is all about hearing God’s voice in your future direction and then painting a picture for those you lead to follow.

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Problem-Solving

Learn to solve problems proactively rather than reactively in this leadership development course. At the completion of this course, you will know effective problem solving skills and processes to tackle the problems you will encounter in your leadership context.

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Strategic Thinking

Learn proven processes to help you make wise and strategic decisions; positively impacting every aspect of your leadership and personal life.

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Essentialism

Establish essential behaviors that will empower you to thrive in your leadership; gaining skills to help you evaluate your time and energy. You will discover your core responsibilities and what is truly essential.

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Atomic Habits

Learn to create and, most importantly, sustain healthy habits for your life over a long methodical journey; improving incrementally every day. This course is all about building habits at a pace that is consistent and sustainable.

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Peak Performance

Discover healthy levels of stress and appropriate amount of rest necessary to perform at your peak level, in a fast-paced, stressful culture. This course will help you identify where you are unhealthy and teach you the necessary routines needed for effective leadership.

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Leading Change

Study the process of change in the lifespan of an organization in this leadership course. Instead of exclusively viewing change through a logical framework, the course will focus on the emotional framework of change management; better equipping leaders to navigate change in their organization.

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Redemptive Leadership

Understand the redemptive leadership model and what sets this apart from popular leadership models. Redemptive leaders must move from an external motivation, that is primarily; goal, activity, and accomplishment driven; to internal motivation, unlocking your true purpose and meaning as a leader.

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Extraordinary Leadership

Learn to utilize exemplary leadership practices to make extraordinary things happen, regardless of your position within your organization. You will learn how to model the way, inspire a shared vision, challenge the process, enable others to act, and encourage the heart.

Enroll for Just $125 per Course

Gain essential leadership skills with our affordable, pay-as-you-go model.
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Comprehensive Leadership Benefits

Strengthened Conflict Resolution Skills
Enhanced Communication Skills
Discover Your God-given Purpose
Improved Decision-Making Abilities
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CLI taught me to organize my private life. I am now able to say NO to the good in order to say YES to the great in my life! It has allowed me to create margin to present the best version of myself to my team. I have learned very practical and tangible ways to be fully present for people and overcome being surface level in my leadership approach.
CLI taught me to organize my private life. I am now able to say NO to the good in order to say YES to the great in my life! It has allowed me to create margin to present the best version of myself to my team. I have learned very practical and tangible ways to be fully present for people and overcome being surface level in my leadership approach.
CLI taught me to organize my private life. I am now able to say NO to the good in order to say YES to the great in my life! It has allowed me to create margin to present the best version of myself to my team. I have learned very practical and tangible ways to be fully present for people and overcome being surface level in my leadership approach.
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Karla Villarreal
Lead Designer - Wolfe Homes
I always thought leadership was what you do, it's what you did; but after going through CLI, I have learned it is not about what you do, it is who you are. Before I can lead others I need to know who I am.
I always thought leadership was what you do, it's what you did; but after going through CLI, I have learned it is not about what you do, it is who you are. Before I can lead others I need to know who I am.
I always thought leadership was what you do, it's what you did; but after going through CLI, I have learned it is not about what you do, it is who you are. Before I can lead others I need to know who I am.
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Taylor Hayes
Administrative Director Mended Fly Fishing
From becoming more self-aware about who I am as a person to understanding more about what leadership and ministry are, CLI has helped me develop more into the person God wants me to be in every aspect of my life.
From becoming more self-aware about who I am as a person to understanding more about what leadership and ministry are, CLI has helped me develop more into the person God wants me to be in every aspect of my life.
From becoming more self-aware about who I am as a person to understanding more about what leadership and ministry are, CLI has helped me develop more into the person God wants me to be in every aspect of my life.
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Montrel Wilson
Financial Service Representative - SECU

Leadership Track Instructors

Our Leadership Track instructors have a wealth of knowledge and experience in leadership. They desire to guide you to be a healthy leader in a variety of roles and environments.

Dr. Eric Freeman

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D.Min, M.Div, B.A.
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Louisa Brown

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B.A., M.S./EdS
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Dr. Rodney Cooper

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Ph.D., Th.M., B.A., M.A
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Steve Rozema

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B.A.
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Rick Raiford

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M.Div, M.B.A., B.S.
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Dave Kraft

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Discover Your True Purpose

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