Equipping Leaders To Multiply

Practice Strategic Absence

What happens when you are not around? How well do church services function? How does your area of ministry operate without you? What goes wrong? What goes right?  Who is leading in your absence? Who steps up when you are out? When the leader is absent, the wheels tend to come off, and anything that could go wrong will go wrong. That’s when you return from vacation or a long weekend off and think to…Continue Reading

Stop Making Decisions

Leaders are decision makers.  I heard someone say, “The leader gets paid the big bucks not to make the most decisions but to make the tough decisions.”  However, there are some leaders who feel it’s their job too make most of the decisions and as a result hinder the development of those on their team.  If you want to help potential leaders in your organization grow then give them some decisions to wrestle with.  When you allow others to…Continue Reading

Four Lessons for Raising Commitment Level, Pt 4

As leaders we want to see our team member’s commitment at the highest level possible. But sometimes it’s the leader himself that puts a lid on an individual’s level of commitment.  When a leader refuses to let go and empower his team members he’s slowly siphoning commitment from their veins.  People want to be contributors, they want to be trusted, they want to grow and they want to use their strengths to contribute to the…Continue Reading

I’ll just do it myself

“I’ll just do it myself.”  These words flow off our tongue with such ease. We don’t really think about it when we say it.  It just sort of comes naturally to us. But there’s a lot of POWER in these words. When we say, “I’ll do it myself” we’re most likely thinking, “I want to do things my way, in my timing, with my style.”   These words give me the POWER.   If we are honest that’s usually…Continue Reading