Leadership is influence. Everything rises and falls on leadership, everything.
All leaders are evaluated.
Evaluation is not the same as judgment.
- Evaluation is based on strengths with a bias of support and for improvement.
- Judgment is based on weakness with a bias for criticism or even condemnation.
- Being assessed is part of a leader; you are assessed on your:
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- Decisions
- Words
- Attitudes
- Actions
- Results
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- The best way to embrace the evaluation of your leadership by your supervisor is to evaluate yourself first and more rigorously than your followers would.
3 Categories of Leadership Responsibility
Relational Savvy
- Healthy, meaningful, and productive relationships always begin with connection, and that requires trust.
- Heart, Connection, Trust, Follow; If you lead with your heart, people can connect with you. If people connect with you, they will trust you, and if they trust you, they will follow you.
- Spiritual discernment is also a vital part of great relationships with people.
Strategic Execution
- The people who follow your leadership not only want to know where you are going, but also that you know how to get them there.
- The strategy makes progress believable.
- Vision unites the team and strategy aligns the team.
- Alignment is the process by which the leaders and the people come together in agreement about how they will realize the vision.
- The vision represents the why, and the strategy encompasses the what and how.
- What if you are a good leader but not a good organizer? You ask others to help you.
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- Who is the point leader?
- Who is on the team?
- How are decisions made?
- What are the key objectives and the preferred timeline?
- What resources are required?
- How will you review and measure progress and determine success?
Inspirational Approach
- The responsibility to inspire is not reserved only for the senior pastor and a few leaders at the top of the organization; All leaders must inspire.
- Your actions are more powerful than your words; if your life contradicts your words, you will not inspire anyone.
- You will need some relational backup just like the relational leader needs some strategic backup, but the point is to lean into your style of inspiring others.
- Evaluate yourself:
Good with people:
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Weak Strong
Good with Strategy:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Weak Strong
Good at inspiring:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Weak Strong
Everything rises and falls on leadership. If you can grow your leadership it will help grow your home, job and every area of your life.