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Taking Your Leadership From Good To Great - The 7 Attributes of Great Leaders
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Taking Your Leadership From Good To Great
The 7 Attributes Of Great Leaders
1. Simplicity
Woody Guthrie is quoted as saying, “Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.”
Great leaders stick with a problem or idea long enough and engage it deeply enough to clear away the fog and reduce the concept to its simplest forms so anyone can understand it.
This doesn’t mean they dumb it down. Rather, it means they make the concept accessible. And because it becomes accessible, more people are helped, and more people follow.
For a sermon: If you can’t say it in a sentence, you shouldn’t say it.
[EXAMPLE] Everybody has a next step, what’s yours? Simple, but behind that is a world of work.
And when it comes to something larger than a 30-60 minute talk (like a project or initiative), work on it long enough to develop a 30 second elevator pitch. Again, if you can’t say it in 30 seconds, you probably don’t understand the problem clearly enough to proceed.
And even if you don’t, no one else will understand it clearly enough to follow.
2. Clarity
In leadership, confusion reigns until someone makes things clear. Clarity is what great leaders bring to the table.
I find one of the best ways to become clear on issues is to ask questions, pull away to think and pray about it, sometimes for days or weeks and then take the idea back to the team for more discussion. Usually, clarity emerges out of the process.
[BC EXAMPLE] New projects - I’m always in a hurry ...
But clarity doesn’t happen automatically. You have to fight for it.
3. Ownership
Ever notice that the best leaders rarely make excuses?
In fact, the leaders who make the most progress make the fewest excuses.
And the leaders who make the most excuses make the least progress.
You can make excuses, or you can make progress, but you can’t make both.
4. Faith
A scarcity mindset will kill your organization or church over the long haul.
Yes there are seasons for restraint. Yes, every organization needs a bean counter.
But if you think small you will stay small. If you think it’s not possible, it won’t be.
What have you written off this year, that God might be
5. Prioritisation
What and who matters today?
It would be amazing if you could set your priorities once at say, age 22, and just cruise through life without readjusting them. It just doesn’t work that way.
Great leaders are continually assessing and reassessing how they spend their time, energy and resources.
I realize that every 3-6 months now, I have to rethink who I’m meeting with, how much time I’ll make available for certain activities, andcertain people.
If you haven’t had to re write your calendar or reprioritise your appoints recently you are probable stuck....and the best way to get unstuck is to reprioritise your time!
6. Self-Discipline
Self-discipline is a fruit of the Holy Spirit.
Self-discipline is simply taking responsibility for your actions, health, attitudes, schedule, words, mistakes and decisions.
- Be up early
- Be on time
To not do so makes you…irresponsible.
7. Humility
Truly great leaders die to themselves.
As Jim Collins has so surprisingly and famously demonstrated, the greatest leaders in the corporate world are…humble.
They are determined, but they’re not selfish. Jesus would agree.
They believe in a cause greater than themselves and serve the organization or cause they’re a part of. They don’t expect it to serve them.
[BC EXAMPLE] The dismantling of the ‘man of God culture’ and the rebuilding of the ‘people of God culture’
If you want to be great, die to yourself.
Boundaries for leaders by Dr. Henry Cloud
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By Beyond ChurchPartner with the vision of Beyond Church here: http://flr.ms/2ED
Subscribe to our youtube channel here - http://tiny.cc/BeyondYouTube
Subscribe to our Leadership Podcast here - https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/beyond-church-raising-leaders/id1470582090
Follow us on facebook here:
Cessnock - https://www.facebook.com/Beyond.Church.Cessnock
Scone - https://www.facebook.com/beyond.church.scone
Online - https://www.facebook.com/beyond.church.online
Find out more about Beyond Church here: Connect with us today: http://flr.ms/Um
Taking Your Leadership From Good To Great
The 7 Attributes Of Great Leaders
1. Simplicity
Woody Guthrie is quoted as saying, “Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.”
Great leaders stick with a problem or idea long enough and engage it deeply enough to clear away the fog and reduce the concept to its simplest forms so anyone can understand it.
This doesn’t mean they dumb it down. Rather, it means they make the concept accessible. And because it becomes accessible, more people are helped, and more people follow.
For a sermon: If you can’t say it in a sentence, you shouldn’t say it.
[EXAMPLE] Everybody has a next step, what’s yours? Simple, but behind that is a world of work.
And when it comes to something larger than a 30-60 minute talk (like a project or initiative), work on it long enough to develop a 30 second elevator pitch. Again, if you can’t say it in 30 seconds, you probably don’t understand the problem clearly enough to proceed.
And even if you don’t, no one else will understand it clearly enough to follow.
2. Clarity
In leadership, confusion reigns until someone makes things clear. Clarity is what great leaders bring to the table.
I find one of the best ways to become clear on issues is to ask questions, pull away to think and pray about it, sometimes for days or weeks and then take the idea back to the team for more discussion. Usually, clarity emerges out of the process.
[BC EXAMPLE] New projects - I’m always in a hurry ...
But clarity doesn’t happen automatically. You have to fight for it.
3. Ownership
Ever notice that the best leaders rarely make excuses?
In fact, the leaders who make the most progress make the fewest excuses.
And the leaders who make the most excuses make the least progress.
You can make excuses, or you can make progress, but you can’t make both.
4. Faith
A scarcity mindset will kill your organization or church over the long haul.
Yes there are seasons for restraint. Yes, every organization needs a bean counter.
But if you think small you will stay small. If you think it’s not possible, it won’t be.
What have you written off this year, that God might be
5. Prioritisation
What and who matters today?
It would be amazing if you could set your priorities once at say, age 22, and just cruise through life without readjusting them. It just doesn’t work that way.
Great leaders are continually assessing and reassessing how they spend their time, energy and resources.
I realize that every 3-6 months now, I have to rethink who I’m meeting with, how much time I’ll make available for certain activities, andcertain people.
If you haven’t had to re write your calendar or reprioritise your appoints recently you are probable stuck....and the best way to get unstuck is to reprioritise your time!
6. Self-Discipline
Self-discipline is a fruit of the Holy Spirit.
Self-discipline is simply taking responsibility for your actions, health, attitudes, schedule, words, mistakes and decisions.
- Be up early
- Be on time
To not do so makes you…irresponsible.
7. Humility
Truly great leaders die to themselves.
As Jim Collins has so surprisingly and famously demonstrated, the greatest leaders in the corporate world are…humble.
They are determined, but they’re not selfish. Jesus would agree.
They believe in a cause greater than themselves and serve the organization or cause they’re a part of. They don’t expect it to serve them.
[BC EXAMPLE] The dismantling of the ‘man of God culture’ and the rebuilding of the ‘people of God culture’
If you want to be great, die to yourself.
Boundaries for leaders by Dr. Henry Cloud