How to Lead in a World of Distraction Study Guide: Maximizing Your Influence by Turning Down the Noise
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About this ebook
Are distractions holding you back from living abundantly?
Our world is filled with distractions. They take a toll on our work, our parenting, our marriages, and our souls. Constant tugs on our attention have us spinning our wheels, unable to gain momentum to move forward.
Much like white noise, these distractions tune out what matters most within, and we’re all susceptible. As distractions grow louder, we become deaf to the issues that most need our attention.
In this six-session video Bible study (DVD/digital videos sold separately), pastor Clay Scroggins shows you how to take the next step in your personal growth by limiting the distractions in your life. Through the practices described in this guide, you will be empowered to replace the chaos in your increasingly busy schedule with emotional competence that leads to a calmer and more fulfilling life.
This study guide contains a session overview, a video teaching summary, group discussion questions, and personal study tools.
Sessions include:
- The Danger of Distraction
- Turning Down the White Noise
- Finding Simplicity
- Speaking to Yourself
- Getting Quiet
- Pressing Pause
Designed for use with How to Lead in a World of Distraction Video Study (9780310115182); sold separately. Streaming video also available.
Clay Scroggins
Clay Scroggins is the lead pastor of North Point Community Church, providing visionary and directional leadership for all of the local church staff and congregation. 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, 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), he has worked his way through many organizational levels of North Point Ministries and knows all too well the challenge of authority deprivation. Clay holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech as well as a Master’s degree and doctorate with an emphasis in Online Church from Dallas Theological Seminary. He lives in Forsyth County, Georgia, with his wife, Jenny, and their four children.
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How to Lead in a World of Distraction Study Guide - Clay Scroggins
ABOUT THE STUDY
I’m so easily distracted. I am guessing you are as well. None of us are immune to the growing cacophony of distractions around us. In the last few years, I’ve asked many people a simple question: Are there more or fewer distractions in our world today than there were ten years ago? The answer is always . . . wait, gimme a minute. Just need to check an email.
Okay. The answer is always a resounding, More!
We all feel it. We are drowning in distractions everywhere we go. It’s not just a problem in the workplace. It’s an epidemic in our homes as well. I have too many stories of missing something in my kids’ lives because my mind was consumed with something else. I actually have a story of missing a kid because of not being attentive in the present. Call it a parenting fail.
My wife and I have five kids, and we were managing bath time for all of them. Our youngest, Whit, was finished with his bath and waiting on me to put on his diaper and pajamas. Evidently, he felt that he had waited long enough. I was distracted, fixing something on the camera in his room, and somehow I didn’t notice him quietly crawling away.
It was only when my wife asked me to put Whit to bed that I realized . . . Whit was not there. He was not in the room. The gate on the stairs was open, so I headed downstairs to continue my search. Whit was not in the kitchen. Or in the living room. Or in the front hallway. That’s when I saw the door leading outside was open. Whit was not in the house. I found him making his way down the street . . . completely naked. It was quite an amusing show for the four neighbors’ houses that he passed.
We later laughed at the consequences of that distraction, but not all our distracted moments are so comical. Distractions take a toll on our marriages, our families, our friendships, our ability to think and manage tasks at work—and our ability to lead others. Distractions cost us in terms of opportunities we miss because we are not paying attention. Distractions pull us away from the important things in our lives. Distractions can keep us from living the best life that God has for us.
Distractions are often like white noise. They mask things we don’t want to confront. In this study, we will look at how we can recognize these masking elements to uncover the feelings they are hiding. I believe we do this by adopting four practices:
Finding simplicity
Speaking to yourself
Getting quiet
Pressing pause
With these tools, you’ll be empowered to replace the chaos in your busy world with an emotional competence that leads to a calmer, less stressful, and more fulfilling life.
Sound intriguing? Then I invite you to join me in this study. Together, we will discover how to turn down the white noise so we can lead ourselves and others—even in a world that is overrun with distractions.
HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE
GROUP SIZE
This study has been written with different groups in mind. Whether you’re a leader at your organization or a stay-at-home parent, we believe the concepts will help you understand the problem of distractions, how to limit them, and how to adopt some practices to help your team deal with them and function more efficiently.
You can use this study in groups of all different sizes. But we think the ideal group size is eight to twelve adults or four to six married couples. Why? Because that’s a large enough group to provide the diverse opinions that drive conversation, yet small enough that group members can hold one another accountable.
Accountability is absolutely crucial to the group dynamic. Reading this material, watching the videos, and having some discussions probably won’t create a big, sustainable change in your personal life or in your leadership. That will only happen if you apply what you learn. And you’ll probably succeed in application only if you have a group of people who are willing to encourage you and hold you accountable.
MATERIALS NEEDED
Here are the things you’ll need for this study:
This guide
The accompanying teaching videos
Something to write with
A copy of the How to Lead in a World of Distraction book (optional for the group meetings but recommended for the between-sessions study)
That’s it.
TIMING
The suggested time for each group session is 90 minutes. This can be broken down as follows:
Conversation Starter: 10 minutes
The Conversation Starter is designed to