Posure Resourses

Read to Lead

Our students join community of passionate leaders committed to professional leadership, emotional, career, and self-development. Reading with your team creates an opportunity for assessment, accountability, new ideas, and approaches shared for your development challenges. It creates a culture of constant improvement and lifelong learning.

READ TO LEAD because a Golden Heart “Reads.”

Social Emotional Learning (SEL)

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is crucial for high school and college students who may be struggling with various challenges. Posure emphasize the importance of SEL in supporting students’ mental health, relationship skills, and overall well-being, especially during the transition to post-secondary education. Incorporating SEL help students cope with stress, solve problems, and navigate the pressures of modern society. 

  • Self-awareness
  • Relationship and networking 
  • Social awareness development 
  • self -leadership 

Leadership and Community Engagement programs.

Students connect and grow with our involved community leaders. This cultivates student emerging leaders who are actively involved in their communities and are equipped to drive positive change. Students in community leadership efforts create a culture of collaboration, empower students to become change agents, and contribute to the overall success of their schools and communities.

  • Personalized mentorship
  • Internship Opportunities
  • Real-world experience
  • Networking engagement
  • Learn setting goal and achievement strategies.
  • leadership opportunities, and intercultural education initiatives

Innovative Research Program 

Student engage in research opportunities, allowing them to engage in innovative research during the summer. Students have opportunities to learn necessary skills for research and innovation, encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration and offering an environment to explore and research ideas. It aims to develop students’ vision, strategic planning skills, and understanding of diversity and teamwork through peer interactions. 

  • Innovative research,
  • Develop leadership skills,
  • Contribute to scientific,
  • Technological,
  • Social innovation.

We’re always looking for new ways to make learning more interesting, efficient, and personalized for each student. Our aim is to offer creative tools that help both students and educators keep learning and growing.

Leverage AI to empower students.

QuillBot: Provides AI-based tools for rewriting and checking grammar to make writing better. Helps language learners improve writing skills with instant suggestions and corrections.

Grammarly: Helps writers check and enhance documents for better quality writing. Aids professionals in creating error-free emails and reports, improving communication.

Otter.ai: Offers instant transcription and note-taking during meetings. Aids student in transcribing interviews and taking notes for faster reporting. Assists students in transcribing and summarizing lectures, simplifying the review and study of course material.

TutorAI: A learning and studying platform that allows students to ask questions on various topics and receive different module choices around the degree of explanation they are looking for. It further breaks up the topic into lessons and subtopics for easy, bite-sized learning. 

Mathly: is an AI tool that helps students with math problems by providing step-by-step solutions and explanations. It can also generate similar problems for additional practice

Speechify: is an AI-powered application that converts written text into captivating audio, allowing students to absorb instructional knowledge while on the move. It can be used to listen to study materials, including lengthy paragraphs and complete books, to support reading comprehension

Amira Learning:  is an AI-powered platform that offers personalized guidance and real-time assessment to improve oral reading fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. It provides interactive and adaptive support tailored to individual student needs, helping struggling readers receive the attention they need precisely when they need it

 

 

ChatGPT: This student-friendly AI helps boost productivity and learning speed, making it the top choice for the best writing assistant.

Stepwise Math: An AI tool that provides personalized courses, assignments, and worksheets to target students’ weaknesses and make learning interactive and fun. It offers instant AI-guided feedback when facing confusion in math, tailoring a course to the student’s needs

QuizGecko: offers quizzes on different subjects, making learning fun and effective for everyone. Whether it’s history, math, science, literature, or any other subject, QuizGecko has you covered. With a wide range of expert-made quizzes, personalized suggestions, and competitive challenges, learning becomes enjoyable and effective.

Transformed and effective leaders read continuously.
Through reading, they:

 

Learn to and motivate themselves.

Learn to add value to themselves and others.

Research opportunities to empower themselves and others.

Encourage others to pay it forward.

How Does It Work?

Our book club leaders will select a new book, discuss the book with the author, and participate in discussions within the community.

If you would like to lead an event, please contact us.

Books Donations

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Get the books you need to develop, transform, and advance your career and personal development. Contact us and request books to borrow.

Explore Posure Recommended Books

Harold Myra and Marshall Shelly illustrate Billy Graham’s leadership principles and character traits he implemented throughout his life. The book highlights four of Billy Graham’s leadership qualities and shares actionable principles to help any emerging leader to become a better leader.

The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham

Harold Myra and Marshall Shelly

Depending on where you are in your journey, Master Mentors will: Challenge your current mindset and beliefs, leading to what could be the most important career and thought-process shifts of your life! Restore you to the
mindset and beliefs you find effective but aren’t currently living in alignment with.
Master Mentors: 30 Transformative Insights from Our Greatest Minds

Scott Jeffrey Miller

Our mind guides our footsteps as we travel along the pathway of life. James Allen shared the importance of Purity of mind that leads inevitably to the Purity of life. This book will help you understand that one should control their everyday acts and attitudes towards people.
As a Man Thinketh

James Allen

Stephen R. Covey’s book shared ageless principles of fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity. It is a highly recommended book for professional development.

Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Set Out With The End In Mind
Habit 3: Put First Things First
Habit 4: Think Win-Win
Habit 5: Seek To Understand First Then Be Understood
Habit 6: Synergize
Habit 7: Sharpen The Saw

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Infographics Edition

Stephen R. Covey

Building a foundation of trust leads to more synergy while leveraging differences, which supports collaboration, encourages risk-taking, and develops an environment where people can learn and grow. Trust and the speed at which it is established with clients, employees, and constituents is essential for any successful, high-performance organization.

The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

Stephen M.R. Covey

In this new way of leading, we know people to be creative, collaborative, and full of potential. When individuals have this kind of leader, they are inspired to become the best version of themselves and produce their best work. People do not want managers; they want leaders.
Trust and Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others

Stephen M.R. Covey

Liz Wiseman examines these two leadership styles, constructively demonstrating how Multipliers can positively influence institutions by accomplishing with fewer resources, developing and attracting talent, and
developing new concepts and energy to drive institutional change and innovation.

Multipliers, Revised and Updated: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smart

Liz Wiseman

Brown shared the important need for Practicing courage, compassion, and connection in our daily lives and how we cultivate worthiness through practicing daily.

THE GIFTS OF Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Brené Brown, Ph.D., L.M.S.W

GENERATION Z is ready and equipped to rise above our current global storm. They can usher in our world’s greatest awakening. They are ready and willing. Born for the storm, Generation Z is officially the world’s largest generation. They are creative, driven, entrepreneurial, and technologically advanced. They come of age at a unique time. This generation is surrounded by turbulence: a global pandemic, racial tensions, political upheaval, economic unrest, and social tensions not experienced by previous generations.

Generation Z: Born for the Storm

Billy Wilson

Contagious Generosity reveals the best practices learned from real-life church leadership situations and pointed out how church leaders can cultivate a culture of generous giving in the local church.
Contagious Generosity: Creating a Culture of Giving in Your Church (Leadership Network Innovation Series)

Chris Willard, Jim Sheppard

The Externally Focused Quest is a great book for church leaders who wish to transform their churches to be less internally focused and more oriented to their world.
The Externally Focused Quest: Becoming the Best Church for the Community

Eric Swanson, Rick Rusaw.

One major problem in the local church today is lack of leadership. We have more needs than leaders to meet them. How do we train better leaders faster?” A Michael Fletcher will help your train your emerging leaders. Empower your church or organization through outstanding leadership. This book will show you how!

Empowering Leadership: How a Leadership Development Culture Builds Better Leaders Faster

Michael Fletcher

They share practical steps to implement this discipline at both personal and organizational levels, particularly in communication, evangelism, and leadership.

Reverse Mentoring: How Young Leaders Can Transform the Church and Why We Should Let Them

Earl Creps

Cladis presents a thrilling alternative to the traditional forms of church leadership, enabling pastors, congregational leaders, and staff to bring new life into their ministries and unleash the full potential of the whole ministry group.

Leading the Team-Based Church: How Pastors and Church Staffs Can Grow Together into a Powerful Fellowship of Leaders

George Cladis

Leading from the inside out encourages leaders to look within themselves before leading others. Leading from the inside out constantly reminds the leader to look into the mirror and ask questions to the man within.
Leadership from the Inside Out: Examining the Inner Life of a Healthy Church Leader

Kevin G. Harney

The writers wrote a handbook to develop a succession plan for smooth pastoral transitions. The book is loaded with strategies and solid advice. This handy resource is based on solid research and the writers’ many years of experience operating with churches in different denominations.
The Elephant in the Boardroom: Speaking the Unspoken about Pastoral Transitions

J. Russell Crabtree

Randy Pope encouraged church leaders who acknowledge the value of discipleship and require practical ideas for reorienting church ministries around personal discipleship.
Insourcing (Bringing Discipleship Back to the Local Church)

Randy Pope, Kitti Murray

Pastor, author, and leadership consultant, Larry Osborne shares that the best and most practical advice always comes from the Bible. Particularly, 1 Peter 5:1-4.
Lead Like a Shepherd: The Secret to Leading Well

Larry Osborne

Mullins shares great information will help any leader manage the emotional transition while fully supporting the next leader.
Passing the Leadership Baton: A Winning Transition Plan for Your Ministry

Tom Dale Mullins

“When you interpret your pain as bigger—more important, more threatening, more comprehensive—than your vision, you’ll redefine your vision down to the threshold of your pain.”
“Leaders can do one of three things with those who hold their ladders: retain them because they’re effective, release them because they aren’t, or reassign and retrain them to hold someone else’s ladder.”
Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

Samuel R. Chand

McNeal recognizes the formative influences upon leaders, which he sees as God’s ways of working in their lives: the same results at work today, developing leaders for ministry in our times. He examines the shaping influence of culture, call, community, conflict, and the commonplace

A Work of Heart: Understanding How God Shapes Spiritual Leaders (Jossey-Bass Leadership Network Series Book 65)

Reggie McNeal

Reggie shared The discipline of self-awareness—The discipline of self-management—The discipline of self-development—The discipline of mission— The discipline of decision-making—The discipline of belonging— The discipline of aloneness.
Practicing Greatness: 7 Disciplines of Extraordinary Spiritual Leaders

Reggie McNeal

The authors classified this book on leadership and living systems into four components: Part 1, “The Call to Personal Transformation”; Part 2, “Leading Living Systems”; Part 3, “Family Patterns”; and Part 4, “The Spirit and the Journey.” The authors propose questions for self-assessment and reflection.
The Leader's Journey: Accepting the Call to Personal and Congregational Transformation

Jim Herrington, Trisha Taylor, R. Robert Creech

The writer shared the Causes of Mental Clutter: How to Reframe ALL Your Negative Thoughts. Strategies to Improve (or Eliminate) Bad Relationships- Decluttering the Distractions That Cause Anxiety.
Declutter Your Mind: How to Stop Worrying, Relieve Anxiety, and Eliminate Negative Thinking

Barrie Davenport

This book equips readers with the positive attitudes, skills, and strategies needed to become powerful leaders who will survive and thrive in God’s service.
Leading from the Second Chair: Serving Your Church, Fulfilling Your Role, and Realizing Your Dreams

Mike Bonem, Roger Patterson

Brown pointed out that Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potential.

Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts

Brené Brown

The Experience of Leadership is a collection of stories, insights, and reflections from highly successful leaders who will inspire readers of all ages to embrace their journey as leaders.
The Experience of Leadership: Proven Examples from Successful Leaders

Fred Stuvek Jr.

This book incorporates contributions from top scholars who summarize the best leadership practices for the benefit of the practicing leader. Every chapter concentrates on a precise leadership practice area and ends with a set of “take away” best practices.
The Practice of Leadership

Jay A. Conger, Ronald E. Riggio, Ed.

“The aim of this book is therefore two-fold. One is to help you as a director or as a CEO or as a boardroom adviser to address the governance realities facing your boardroom today. It will organize the sea of opinions and research on boardroom governance into a coherent picture so that you and your board can make better choices about governance.”

Boardroom Realities: Building Leaders Across Your Board

Jay Alden Conger, Ed.

The Experience of Leadership is a collection of stories, insights, and reflections from highly successful leaders who will inspire readers of all ages to embrace their journey as leaders.

The Art of Followership

Ira Chaleff, Jean Lipman-Blumen, Ronald E. Riggio, Ed.

The book asks and answers questions about the current state of the field while providing future directions for research to help bridge the gap between leadership researchers and leadership development practitioners.

The Future of Leadership Development

Ronald E. Riggio, Susan E. Murphy, Ed.

Leadership pervades every aspect of organizational and social life, and its study has never been more diverse, nor more fertile.

The Sage Handbook of Leadership

Mary Uhl-Bien, Keith Grint, Alan Bryman, David Collinson, Brad Jackson, Ed.

Self-Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind presents expert guidance on limiting self-criticism and offsetting its negative results, encouraging you to reach your highest potential and a more contented, fulfilled life.

Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

Kristin Neff

More Books:

  • Fierce Leadership: A Bold Alternative to the Worst “Best” Business Practices of Today by Susan Scott
  • The Obstacle is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday
  • Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility by Patty McCord
  • The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage by Mel Robbins
  • The Captain Class: The Hidden Force That Creates the World’s Greatest Teams by Sam Walker
  • Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success by Adam Grant
  • The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell
  • Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALS Lead and Win by Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
  • Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time by Susan Scott
  • Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… And Others Don’t by Jim Collins
  • The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
  • Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek
  • Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
  • Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, & Alan Eagle
  • The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win by Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
  • Conscious Business: Transforming Your Workplace (and Yourself) by Changing the Way You Think, Act, and
  • Communicate by Fred Kofman
  • The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues: A Leadership Fable by Patrick M. Lencioni
  • What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture by Ben Horowitz
  • The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals by Sean Covey, Chris McChesney, & Jim Huling
  • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
  • High-Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way by Brendon Burchard
  • Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World by Admiral William H. McRaven
  • The Art of Authenticity: Tools to Become an Authentic Leader and Your Best Self by Karissa Thacker
  • Think Yourself Successful by Alirez Azmaandian, Ph.D.
  • The Greatest Secret in the World by OG Mandino
  • Wealth: Grow It, Protect It, Spend It, and Share It by Stuart Lucas
  • Time Management and Personal Development John Adair and Melanie Allen
  • Time Management by Marc Mancini
  • Conflict Resolution by Daniel Dana
  • Leadership Skills for Managers by Marlene Caroselli
  • Atomic Habits by James Clear
  • Strategies and Tips for Time Management
  • Managers Guide to Motivating Employees by Anne Bruce
  • Perfect Phrases for Documenting Employee Performance Problems by Anne Bruce
  • Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews  Douglas Max and Robert Bacal
  • Perfect Phrases for Conflict Resolution: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases for Encouraging a More Productive and Efficient Work Environment by Lawrence Polsky
  • The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin
  • The Quest for Moral Leaders: Essays on Leadership Ethics (New Horizons in Leadership Studies series) by Joanne B. Ciulla(Editor), Terry L. Price (Editor), Susan E. Murphy (Editor)
  • The Persuasive Leader Lessons from the Arts Stephen J. Carroll and Patrick C. Flood
  • The Millionaire Real Estate Investor by Gary Keller, Dave Jenks, and Jay Papasan
  • The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy Paperback – November 16, 2010 by Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko  
  • The Total Money Makeover: Classic Edition: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness Kindle Edition by Dave Ramsey
  • The Leadership Triad: Knowledge, Trust, and Power 1st Edition by Dale E. Zand

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