Leadership defined by Pastor Troy

Our Pastor has been given a passion & gift in bringing out the Leader within us. In our last Staff Meeting, he taught on Leadership Skills WE NEED to carry the Vision & Mission we were created to do. Skills that will better equip you as Small Group Leaders. I had to share!

*LEADERSHIP SIMULATOR: ability to see & learn leadership anywhere (ie, was the mtg about a task, or did I leverage the mtg to build or equip leaders  - if you’re not careful it becomes about the task ). Leadership is the ability to learn & grow & be wiling to learn leadership wherever we go. See the whole world as a learning op. What Leadership op have you learned today? Learn to see leadership lessons everywhere & all the time.

*BE A TRUTHTELLER:  being honest about what you’ve already decided. Integrity demands it. Truthtelling is not, telling it the way it is or calling it the way you see it. Its not an email outlining what they did wrong. And its not about position. TT is not just down on an org chart, its also upwards. If you don’t speak up, you are agreeing. And once you release it, God will keep the Leader above me accountable. One sure sign that you must speak up is if you cant sleep at night, Im going to talk about it….

*20/20 VISION:  the ability to leverage vision to take you to take you where you’ve never been.  Some truths about Vision are that:

- Vision leaks – people forget why we do what we do

- Vision creates alignment.

- Vision values, ethos & verses – we have to agree in those areas. Generated by God, given by one, guarded by ALL.

*EXTREME LEADERSHIP EXECUTION:  ability to perform ministry in the top 20% consistently. Today’s results are the outcomes of yesterdays execution. The eval & correction of execution is what makes a Leader, a great leader.

*ENERGY LEVERAGING: the ability to use preexisting energy to produce predetermined outcome.

Ask yourself, do you use people to create a great ministry or use the ministry to build the person?

INNOVENTION: the ability to create the tools needed to accomplish the Vision   Edison create the TOOLS that we need to accomplish the Vision. Driving force behind this is passion. Convince people that its possible. Teach people you will fail, but fail forward. We can wait for others to do it, or create the tools we need & be 3 steps ahead.

CATCH & RELEASE:  catch big leaders with the vision & then release them to accomplish the vision. Leaders don’t travel in packs. Leaders are like catching a shark – you gotta go AFTER it. You have to learn, read, maximize your time. Pour into them & release them, but first power feed them 2 things – our Ethos (what we value) & the Vision (what we run after But make it informal.