Leadership | Jeremy Scheller

Aug 7, 2008

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LEAD – Bill George – Finding Your True North, The Spirituality of Authentic Leaders

Align
Empower
Serve
Collaborate

People find their passion for leadership in their life stories…

How do leaders develop?

Understand the purpose of your leadership.
Get feedback, prayer & introspection.
Will you be true to your values.
Discover your intrinsic motivations. Lead from your strengths. (are you in your sweet spot?)
Build a supportive team around you. Have one person that you’re able to have complete transparency with.
Lead an integrated life. Be the same person in all environments of life. Congruency.

Aug 7, 2008

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LEAD – Gary Haugen – Just Courage, Charging the Darkness

Leadership that matters to God

Leadership in endeavors and issues that matter to God.
Just because I’m leading and people are following, doesn’t mean that I’m leading in things that matter to God.
Are Jesus and I on the same page?

We’re the plan

You are the light of the world, let your light so shine among men that they’ll give glory to the father.
We’re the ones that get to share the good news, that get to be the good news.
When people in pain see the body of Christ show up, then they actually can believe that God is good.

Injustice

The abuse of power to take away the good things that God intended for them
Rank injustice makes it hard for people to believe that God is good.

The Big Idea: “If you want your leadership to matter, lead in the things that matter to God.”

This is the pivot point for great leadership.
Leadership that matters, matters precisely when the calling is hopeless, scary and hard.

What have we learned about leading when the task seems Hopeless?

By re-centering the basis of our hope
Jesus asks his disciples, “What do you have; will you give it to me?”
He doesn’t ask for what is needed, he asks what we have, and he will be responsible for getting it done.

What have we learned about leading when the task seems Scary?

Lead by reminding the people of God that Jesus did not come to make us safe, he came to make us brave.
Safety=Stuck
God asks us to follow him beyond what we can control. Do it, and you will experience the adventure.

What have we learned about leading when the task seems Hard?

Bring people to a place where it is absolutely unsafe to go without God. They will either go with, or fall away.

How then should we choose to lead:

Choose not to be safe
Choose to pursue deep spiritual health
Choose to pursue excellence (let us be the generation of church leaders that resets the bar for excellence)
Choose to seize the joy

Pray that God would rescue us from all things petty.

Aug 7, 2008

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A few reflections on Hybels opening piece…

I love that Bill genuinely feels the weight of leadership at his core. You can tell that it’s not just fluff for him.

A few of Bill’s axiom’s that hit me:

“If it feels funky, engage.”

This is me to a fault
I need to extend this by saying, if it feels funky, engage diplomatically.
Great leaders have the courage to call out when things are heading in a God-inspired direction, I want to grow in this area.

“Sometimes, leaders have to call fouls on themselves.”

I’m not impervious to being out of line, in fact, I’m pretty good at it.
I need better discretion in how to handle issues that arise.
Perhaps it just comes back to diplomacy again for me.

I realize, based on this talk, that I need a more clearly defined process for making leadership decisions.

I tend to fly off the seat of my pants making decisions based on past experience and my own “knowledge base.” While that includes a history of strong Biblical teaching, I rarely just crack open the book when facing a hard decision. In the end, I tend to trust the leadership skills God has been building in me, but I think he’d love it if I took a deeper look into his word first. Then consulted others, rather than living only in my personal leadership box.

Aug 7, 2008

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LEAD – Bill Hybels – "The High Drama of Leadership"

Teaching leadership, unapologetically, from a Christian perspective.

Rom. 12:8

Starting off with general Bill Hybel’s candor….

Do you have a framework that helps you arrive at an effective, God-honoring decision?

Questions Christians tend to ask:

Does the Bible say anything about this?
What would smart advisors, advise me to do? (A story of the young king seeking out wise counsel…he took the advise of the young advisors…hint, hint.
What experience have you had that would inform you about these decisions?
Is there a prompting of the Holy Spirit that I need to be paying attention to? (When you’re instep with the spirit, it leads to life and peace.)

At some point, leaders have to make decisions. Leaders cannot be decision averse. For good decisions, you thank everybody, for poor decisions, you take the blame.

Some Leaders learn how to compress all of the above into Leadership Axioms for their up-coming decisions…Nuggets of wisdom…proverbs…

“The best way to destroy my enemy is to turn him into my friend.”

– Abraham Lincoln

“Promote a clash of ideas”

“Reward your best performers, get rid of your non-performers.”

– Colin Powell

Are you composing your own leadership axioms? You should. You should coin, complete, and implement them for yourself.

One of Bill’s famous axioms:

“No matter how many times you share it, no matter how passionate you are, Vision Leaks.”

“Get the right people around the table”

“Facts are your Friends”

– Hybels

The circles of the Willow Community:

Explorers, Beginners, Growers, Christ-centered

The chasm between Growers and Christ-centered folks is enormous. The potential for change is huge for people who no-longer see their life as their own, but as wholly given to the activity of God in the world.

“Leaders have to call fouls.”

“Sometimes, leaders have to call fouls on themselves.”

“When things feel funky, engage.”

– Hybels

Every once in a while, your church needs an action plan that will take your breath away. Dream big vision, then teach it, unleash it and experience it.

Seek the abundant life, talked about in 1 Tim.

Aug 7, 2008

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LEAD Summit 2008 – Intro

Today, I’m attending the Willow Creek LEAD Summit 2008. This was one of my highlight conferences from last year. Marcus Buckingham changed my life last year. As well as Richard Curtis and Colin Powell’s messages.

This year, very exciting, my own pastor and supervisor, Efrem Smith is at the Summit talking about the Church and Reconciliation. Can’t wait to hear how it goes. Pray for him today as he prepares for his message.

*If you want to send text questions during the summit, send questions to: 72265