Competencies

Adding more words to the mix rarely results in saying something meaningful. Take these four steps seriously if you want to stop dieseling and speak to the heart.

If you remain in a leadership position long enough you will have to deal with incompetence in someone at some point. Whether that means reassigning someone, redefining their role, or letting them go, as a leader the only option not available is to allow the mission of the organization to suffer.

People are so often thrust into roles where they’re leading people without being taught the skills or given the support to do it well. So many leadership programs are aimed at senior leaders rather than the first time or newish leader. Here are some things Suzi learned from her first time experiences.

A river will curve with twists and turns in its path to the ocean seemingly without reason. Unlike a river, an organization should plan its curves and turns. Organizational theory tells you that the time for transition (or curving) is … always. Because if you wait until it starts to happen, you are too late. By the time you go through the transition, the organization might not recover from the decline. That is a problem. The challenge is to figure out what the next curve should be, and then the next, and that becomes successive generations of ideas or products or paradigms or forms of organizations.

If we wish to train up children who walk closely with God as they grow into adults, we must influence them to read and reference the Bible.

It takes certain skill sets to be a good manager, and not all managers have the skills needed for the job yet.

If you are just starting out in ministry, here are five key lessons Charles Stone learned over the last 20 years as a pastor.

When you ask shallow questions, you get shallow answers. When you ask profound questions, you get profound answers.

Leadership transparency can build or break trust. Without trust, leadership suffers.

I know no leader who says up front, “It’s likely I’ll commit the same sins I see leaders in the Scripture commit.” I do know several leaders, however, who would say, “I never thought it would happen to me – but it did.”

We must apply servant leadership not only at work, but – equally ‒ inside of our own homes. We must make that dual investment. You can become more intentional about leading Jesus’ way within your own family. And you can have fun doing it!

It is absolutely necessary that a leader have strong competencies.