john jason britton


associate dean of student dev.
jbritton@calvin.edu
office 616-526-6695
fax 616-526-6644
common annex

orientation
project neighborhood
student senate advisor
student organizations
international student liason
judicial officer

professional contributions
 member of national orientation director association
national and regional orientation professional of the year - 2006
co-hosted the 2004 and planning memeber of 2007 noda regional vii conference
presented at national and regional conferences

> defining a win: the key to organizational success
> hidden passion of orientation: student development
> power of influence vs. the power of position
> deathbed principles of leadership
> good to great: taking your organization to the next level
> give it away leadership: the art of delegation
> the components of christian leadership
> jb's and bob's cookies: ingredients to a successful orientation
> redesigning orientation using your institutional mission statement
> construct transfer student programs: if you built it they will come

jb's reading list


in the name
of jesus
henri nouwen

just read this book again and has some powerful counter cultural ways to view leadership. a must read for all those interest in x-ian leadership. nouwen is the man, read anything he's written.


first break all the rules
m. buckingham

if you manage people and need new insights on how to lead this is the only book that has based their finding on so much research. make sure you have a pen and paper because you'll have to take notes.
this powerful narrative lays out a clear and consise picture of what impact dysfunction can have on a team setting. a must read for anyone who manages a team

5 dysfunctions of a team
patrick lencioni
a historical view of what what makes companies make the successful leap from being "good" to "great". a couple chapters in this book had a significant impact


good to great
jim collins


death by meeting
patrick lencioni

 in another narrative pat narrows his focus on the how to's of having a great meeting. he stress that we don't have too many meeting we have too many bad meetings.


volunteer revolution
bill hybels

i read this book with a group of deacon from my church provides some great examples of how to raise up people in the congregation to active and effective service
 
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