In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Dan Iten are joined by Jeff Dalrymple who serves as the Executive Director of the Evangelical Council for Abuse Prevention (ECAP). In this episode, they discuss the importance of coaching and leading a team toward a shared mission, vision, and values. He shares his experiences in identifying gaps in knowledge and management surrounding child safety in the evangelical community and the challenges of leading a dispersed team during the startup phase of an organization. Jeff also emphasizes the importance of balancing work and family life and provides insights into his leadership approach in his home.

BEST QUOTES

“Advancing the mission and making things happen is important, but don’t forget to care for and invest in the people around you.” – Jeff Dalrymple

“Shared experiences create relational deposits that are valuable in the life of a child and family.” – Jeff Dalrymple

“The mission is important, but how you go about accomplishing that mission is just as important.” – Jeff Dalrymple

“Constant communication and support with team members is necessary for successful leadership.” – Jeff Dalrymple

“God is calling us to a mission and a calling, but it’s important to remember the relationships along the way.” – Jeff Dalrymple

“Modeling Christ’s likeness and good leadership through presence and intentional words is important in the home.” – Jeff Dalrymple

“The key to leadership is coaching and leading a team towards the same mission, vision, and values.” – Jeff Dalrymple

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters by Dr. Albert Mohler

TRUST: The Firm Foundation for Kingdom Fruitfulness by Dan Busby

This vs. That Podcast by Anchored Hope

Evangelical Council for Abuse Prevention

On this episode of the 1 Ministry Question podcast, Todd Adkins, Daniel Im and Dan Iten discuss moving the podcast into the 5 Leadership Questions Podcast in order to dive deeper into our topics and reach more leaders, pastors, and churches.

5 Leadership Questions Podcast

On this episode of the 1 Ministry Question podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im discuss how you encourage someone who is serving in multiple roles to be happy and healthy in their roles.

“You need to have a regular conversation with the staff member you are supervising to make sure that they are appropriately allocating time to each role.”

“The best thing you can do for yourself and that person is to give them tons of clarity on what exactly their role is, do the audit, and then help them giveaway their ministry as much as possible.”

“So many times there are leaders that opt out of our ministry because we dump on them.”

Ministry Grid

5 Leadership Questions Podcast

On this episode of the 1 Ministry Question podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im discuss interacting with, engaging well, and leading well with your peers.

“If you want to succeed your teammates need to succeed just as much as you do.”

“By leading laterally, and by influencing in the way that everyone is winning, when it comes time for a promotion who is the boss going to look to?”

“Leading laterally looks a lot more like leading up than leading down because you need to put yourself in a posture of servant leadership.”

“If you lead laterally, that is a very unique skill set that builds trust.”

1 Ministry Question Podcast Episode 43 – How do you lead up well?

1 Ministry Question Podcast Episode 44 – How do you lead down well?

Working Genius assessment by Patrick Lancioni

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On this episode of the 1 Ministry Question podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im discuss what leading down is and how you do it well.

“If you are in positional authority over others there is a sense in the back of your mind that you have the veto card because you are the boss.”

“Lead in a way where you never have to rely on your positional authority and hierarchy.”

1 Ministry Podcast Episode 43 – How do you lead up well?

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On this episode of the 1 Ministry Question podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im discuss leading up from any leadership perspective.

“When it comes to leading up, ultimately if your team isn’t operating the way you think it should, the worst thing you can do is give up.”

“If you can lead up well, it is only going to help being able to lead down and across.”

“If you want to lead up well, you need to know yourself – your strengths and weaknesses – and you need to know your leader.”

“Your job is not to delegate your job back up.”

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On this episode of the 1 Ministry Question podcast, Todd Adkins and Dan Iten discuss what policies to have around weddings at your church.

“If you have a staff that has multiple pastors that do weddings, it is a lot easier to put a policy in place because it takes the burden and responsibility off that person.”

“Look at founding documents for your church and adjust them for this day and age.”

Wedding Planning on Ministry Grid

On this episode of the 1 Ministry Question podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im discuss how you build momentum in to the future now that restrictions for COVID are being released.

“A lot of the people that are coming back are new, and people are coming less at the same time.”

“Engage your congregation to neighbor well.”

“In building momentum, you have to focus more on the newcomers than on the people who have left.”

“People are stickier than your preaching and people are stickier than your Sunday morning, so classes or groups really held together.”

On this episode of the 1 Ministry Question podcast, Todd Adkins and Dan Iten discuss how you adapt your budget when you are either way above expectations or way below expectations.

“The people in our church that are giving are being squeezed themselves, so we might need to have a contingency plan in place.”

“One of the first things we need to do with our budget is analyze our fixed costs.”

“You are trying to do the least amount of disruption to normal ministry activity.”

“We need to continually have our eyes on our budget assessing if there are areas where we can cut back from that won’t make major impacts to ministry.”

On this episode of the 1 Ministry Question podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im discuss how you can lead change in a stagnant situation by using the past.

“There is some story that people hold up as a trophy in the church that you can find something good to say about and use to springboard into your new ideal of what evangelism or discipleship looks like.”

“The importance of the past is an interesting way to lead change because if you are a new leader, or you are trying to change things, people are going to associate that change with you.”

“If there is a change that you feel God is leading you to make in the church into the future, there is probably something you can root that in, in the past.”

“When leading change, the more you can tie it to your values the more the values become tangible and real.”