Archive for Leadership & Learning

Faith & Everyday Leadership

Reinventing the 21st Century Church

September 9, 2008 – September 11, 2008
Roslyn Retreat Center , Richmond, Virginia
Facilitator: Wayne Floyd
Note: Seminar begins at 12 noon on day 1 and concludes with lunch on day 3.
This retreat introduces you to the exciting new curriculum developed by the Alban Institute, “Faith and Everyday Leadership.”
Are you someone [...]

Posted by: wfloyd on Thursday, August 21st, 2008

How adults learn

One of the least discussed topics in adult religious and theological education seems to be the distinctive qualities of adult learners. How adults learn simply is different from the way we learn at earlier ages; yet so much about our approach to adult-education has been drawn from the models of ‘education’ that we learned [...]

Posted by: wfloyd on Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

New Assets for Educating Congregational Leaders

Alban Weekly feature article, March 17, 2008
Wayne Whitson Floyd, Education Department Manager
Depending on whom you ask, continuing-education for ministry is either flourishing, with assets that have never existed before, or struggling to survive.
Troubling symptoms include increasing costs amidst anecdotal reports of decreasing support for staff and programs sponsored both by seminaries and by national [...]

Posted by: wfloyd on Friday, March 14th, 2008

Faith & Everyday Leadership™

COMING SOON: EXCITING NEW CURRICULUM!
Have you ever honestly asked yourself, what does my faith really have to do with the concrete challenges of everyday life? What do my talents from the professional and business world, or from my responsibilities as a parent, have to do with the leadership roles I am asked to play [...]

Posted by: wfloyd on Monday, February 4th, 2008