Leadership Tips & Training Seeking Support as a Leader

Friday July 1st, 2005


This month I did not receive any creative ideas or tips to share with you from fellow leaders.  So, let me give you some suggestions of how to seek support as a leader:

  1. Start an area leader's support group. If there is not a networking leader near you, then take the lead and search out other First Place leaders in your area. Invite them to meet you for lunch one Saturday at the local café.   Share ideas, challenges and victories. Pray together and share information about your upcoming sessions. This can be as casual as you would like or more structured, meeting in a church with a "program." The main purpose is to encourage one another.
  2. Attend an Area Leader Meeting if one is offered near you. 
  3. Attend a workshop or conference near you. Look through the events section of our website to locate an event near you.
  4. No events near you? Then host a workshop or rally at your church. Contact Nancy Taylor at ntaylor@firstplace.org for more information.
  5. Attend the Leadership Summit on July 28-30 in Houston, Texas for a Texas-sized dose of encouragement and support! http://www.firstplace.org/leadership_summit.html


Please send your creative ideas or leadership tips to Nancy Taylor at ntaylor@firstplace.org and they will be published in this section in the coming months!

Nancy Taylor
First Place Leadership Training Director

Each month we will spotlight leadership tips and ideas from leaders all across the country. Send your ideas to and she will publish them in this spot each month.


Nancy Taylor is the First Place Leadership Training Director and joined the First Place staff in 1997. Nancy teaches leadership principles to First Place Leaders throughout the country and at Houston's First Baptist Church where she coordinates all the First Place groups. . Nancy also speaks at First Place workshops, rallies, retreats, and conferences, where she delights her audiences with humor and encourages them with boldness. She writes a monthly article, which includes helpful tips for leaders, for the First Place E-newsletter, and was a contributing writer to the Today is the First Day devotional book. Nancy is the resident First Place Bible Concordance because of her love for Scripture memory.