“Aha!” by Leadership Network- The Next NINES
Leadership Network (LN) is an great organization, and they are doing more amazing stuff this year. Some of Dave Travis’s comments on their Learnings Blog have hinted to their 2nd big online conference, called Aha! Fresh Voices, New Ideas that will happen on March 3rd, 2010. Dave mentioned that the official announcement and details will be made early this week by Todd Rhodes. (Aha! Link is now up.)
What can you expect? The same incredible format as their first online conference The NINES – a totally free online experience, with a mix of some great folks you already know as well as some new faces. Look for fewer total participants (40) and shorter clips at 6 minutes each. Contributers were asked to focus on a key learning and “aha!” moment in their life and ministry.
Where did the name originate? About ten months ago, I worked with LN’s team to distill down their six values. They named this conference after their second value. Here is the list:
- What’s next? - We explore what could be.
- Aha! - We create environments for collaborative discovery.
- Positive deviants* We work with the exceptional.
- Generous relationships. We invest in the success of others.
- Results, results, results… We pursue BIG impact.
- JESUS We strive to model Jesus in everything we do.
The mission of Leadership Network is to accelerate the impact of 100X leaders. See a fun little interview on LN- Ben Arment with Dave Travis.
[...] Maximizing the The NINES learning experience, begins with considering their mission and values as the context of the offering. The mission of Leadership Network is to accelerate the impact of 100X leaders. What is a 100X leader? (I’m glad you asked.) The concept is rooted in Matthew 13:23. People produce different amounts of fruit depending on the soil of their soul. The verse references thirty, sixty, and hundred fold fruitfulness. LN taps into hundredfold leaders (100X) to accelerate their impact and to encourage the multiplication of that learning (one of their stated strategies). If you want to read about their core values, check out this post. [...]