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Equipping Leaders To Multiply

Category: Leadership Development

5 Minute Leadership Development

While they may not say it out loud, many leaders feel like they don’t have time to develop the people they work with.  This underscores a fundamental misunderstanding of leadership development. Developing leaders doesn’t always necessitate long hours of teaching and instruction.  Every day we’re surrounded by small golden opportunities to develop the leaders around us.  But if we aren’t looking we’ll miss them. They come in the form of a short conversation in the…Continue Reading

Are We Teaching People to Do or Develop?

It’s simple to teach a new employee to do a job because they’re motivated to learn, they want to please you, and they find personal significance from performing well. So you tell them what you want done, they do it, you redirect where they may be off course and eventually they get it and they become a valuable contributor- a good ‘Doer” for the organization. This works well until they leave, then we have to start over again. When…Continue Reading

Helping Others Win

I played a lot of basketball when I was young and my primary focus in every game was to score.  Oh I loved to win too, but if our team lost and I scored double digets that was okay because “I won”.  Sometimes leaders develop this same mentality:  “It doesn’t matter if the organization is losing as long as I’m performing well individually”.   But when we develop this self-absorbed addiction for personal performance it blinds us to the giftedness, potential and contribution…Continue Reading

Seacoast Leaders Conference

Being a multisite church has many benefits as well as many challenges.  Multiple locations requires that you have many leaders, but getting all the leaders from all locations at the same time for leadership training is a challenge.  In the past we’ve held “Leader Rallies” in our three regions on three consecutive days traveling to three different locations.  This was great for getting the regions together but we wanted to bring ALL of our leaders together. So this Friday we are trying…Continue Reading