Leadership isn't only what you do on Sundays; it's your lifestyle. For a leader to be truly effective in ministry, he or she must take a strategic approach to continued personal growth. For audio resources to inspire thinking and encouragement, we produce the Influence Podcast. We also recommend taking a look at these three sources:

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast

Craig Groeschel is senior pastor of Life.Church, a multisite congregation with 24 locations in seven states. (Life.Church is best known for its Bible app: YouVersion.) The purpose of Groeschel’s podcast is “to help you make the most of your potential as you work to become the leader God created you to be.” Episodes run from 20 to 30 minutes in length and are updated monthly. Past topics include “The Six Types of Leaders,” “Creating a Value-Driven Culture” and “Institutionalizing Urgency.”

GLSNext

The Global Leadership Summit is a premier annual conference for Christian leaders. Hosted by Bill Hybels of Willow Creek Community Church, GLS speakers include well-known leaders and leadership experts from a variety of sectors: the Church, politics, business, education and philanthropy. Past speakers include Jim Collins, Wilfredo De Jesús, Carly Fiorina, and Patrick Lencioni. The GLSNext app provides videos of speakers like these addressing a variety of leadership topics, such as self-leadership and team development. New videos are added weekly.

TEDTalks

Founded in 1984 as a conference to discuss convergences between technology (T), entertainment (E) and design (D), TED has since become an influential nonprofit whose motto is “Ideas worth spreading.” TEDTalks is the organization’s almost daily podcast, featuring presentations from its conferences. Christian listeners will not always agree with presenters’ typically secular point of view. Nonetheless, the presentations are usually interesting, well-informed, and culturally influential. Recent talks include “3 reasons we can win the fight against poverty,” “The beauty of being a misfit” and “This is your brain on communication.”

This article originally appeared in the August/September issue of Influence. For more print content, subscribe.