After an incredible series on Healing and Leadership, Jake and Bob sit down for one final episode with renowned leadership expert Patrick Lencioni. Lencioni is founder of the Table Group, a consulting firm which has helped businesses across the globe in their quest for organizational health. He is a practicing Catholic and a force behind the Amazing Parish project. Pat opens up about his short fuse (and new peace he's discovered), why people-pleasing is so deadly, and why the only kind of leadership is servant leadership. We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did!

 

Guiding Quote:

Do I want to be a leader because of what it does for me, or do I want to be a leader because it’s a huge responsibility to love and serve others? - Patrick Lencioni

 

Key Points:

• Pat shares how he met Dr. Bob, began to dive deeper into healing, and how that’s impacted his leadership
• What we might be missing in the story of St. Paul’s conversion
• Why agreeableness is not a healthy position for a leader
• The difference between ‘niceness’ and kindness and love
• What a lack of conflict indicates
• Lencioni’s 5 healthy functions of an organization
• Vulnerability-based trust
• Healthy conflict
• Commitment
• Accountability
• Collective Results
• Why all leadership is servant leadership
• The difference between head level knowledge of faith and heart level relationship with Jesus, truly believing that God loves us uniquely and unconditionally
• Pat demystifies what leaders are like in the business world and and why it’s not as scary as we might think to bring faith into the workplace
• Pat’s advice to leaders: purify your intentions, get healthy (work towards wholeness and integrity), and shepherd the people closest to you

 

Practical Application:

1. The next time you catch yourself being ‘agreeable’ when you have a different perspective, speak up instead. 
2. Is your faith something that you believe with your head or a person you’ve encountered in your heart? Don’t be afraid to go to God in prayer with the truthful answer. Be honest with him about any areas of doubt in his goodness and love. 
3. Take some time to identify who those 'closest to you' are, who you may be called to invest more of your leadership efforts into and shepherd well.
4. Choose one of the resources to explore more with your team at work or in a small group in your church community.

 

Resources: 

• Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Pat Lencioni (book)
• The Motive, Pat Lencioni (book)
• The Advantage, Pat Lencioni (book)
• The Working Genius Assessment (online assessment)
• The Simple Reminder (podcast)
• At the Table (podcast)
• The Working Genius Podcast
• The Table Group
• The Amazing Parish
• Be Healed, Dr. Bob Schuchts (book)

 

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