This is from Mac Lake and is called "Six Conversations Leaders Need to Have." You interact with your staff everyday, you pass them in the halls, you pop into their office or even go to lunch together on occasion. But how intentional are those interactions? Intentional interactions with those we lead create development opportunities that increase their leadership productivity. But too often leaders neglect meeting with the individuals on their team because they dont know what to talk about. So here are six conversations you need to have with the individuals on your team. I’ll write more on each of these later but for now here is the concept and one question each to get the conversation started. 1. The Strengths Conversation. What are your strengths and what percentage of your time do you feel you operate in your strengths? 2. The Passion Conversation. What are you most passionate about…
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In the spirit of Thanksgiving more than turkey, I thought I'd share a few words of thanks. No particular order, but each is important. Thank you ... to my parents for raising me with good values, good humor, and a good foundation. You may be gone but your memory is alive and well. Thank you ... to my wife for sticking with me for nearly 19 years. I'm glad it's not true that married start looking alike the longer they've been married -- more for your sake than mine. Thank you ... to my two daughters for bringing joy and laughter into our home in their own unique ways. I hope for you more than you'll ever know. Thank you ... to the churches that I have blessed to serve over the last 19 years. It's been a privilege I have never taken for granted. Thank you ... to the…
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Mac Lake serves as the Development Pastor at Seacoast Church, a church with 13 campuses. He writes a blog focused on leadership development. Below is a good remind of topics we need to continually come back to as we develop the leaders around us. What are you trying to accomplish when doing leadership development at your church? You say, “build leaders of course!” While that’s true, I believe it’s time for us to reconsider and expand the focus of our leadership development efforts. Too often our training efforts are aimed solely at preparing someone to execute the mechanics of a volunteer ministry position. But what could happen if we trained people not simply for a position but to live a lifestyle of biblical leadership? What if the leadership development efforts of our churches equipped people to be better managers, supervisors, coaches, vice-presidents or business owners? Keep in mind, the people…
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Will Mancini has done a great job "translating" Seth Godin for church leaders. His blog post "How Passionate is Your Tribe?" is a great example. Here it is: Here are my three favorite Seth Godin quotes pertaining to tribal passion: "Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy. Can you imagine Steve Jobs showing up for the paycheck? It’s nice to get paid, its essential to believe." "Caring is the key emotion at the center of the tribe… Many organizations are unable to answer the question, “Who cares?" because in fact, no one really does. If you don’t care - really and deeply care - then you can’t possibly lead." "The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on mission. The thing is, that requires leadership." Because every leader in your church can be…
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