leadership – Page 2

9Aug

By Steve WarrenNo Comments

Personal Life, Work Life

What the greatest Team Leaders do …

I want to show you that a great team is helped to become great by the leadership style of the Team Leader. Leadership 'style' is almost as varied as personality. However, there are 3 types of leadership traits that are absolutely essential to the success of a team. If these aren't present 'team' will be dis-functional. 1. Consultative Leadership - it should be the default behaviour of a team leader to consult with his or her team. Although decisive in outcome a team leader is not primarily directive in nature. The level of involvement of the team in idea generation and decision making should grow as time goes on and trust and cohesion is built. Begin consulting on the 'easy give-aways' before you involve on the tough decisions. This leader will delegate, involve and consult.

12Jul

By Steve Warren3 Comments

Work Life

Is there a better way to manage my time?

Last time we spoke about value led leadership. We looked at how knowing our values helps us determine our priorities and make decisions. It helps us decide to do the right things not just the urgent things. It also helps us know how to prioritise our time. In leadership deciding what we must not do is as important as deciding what we should do. We need to have a ‘to don’t list’ as well as a ‘to do list’. What does your ‘to don’t list’ have on it? - things that are not building the core purpose of your team or connect group - things that someone else could be doing and find engaging 1. Ask yourself what things can I stop doing today? 2. What things could someone else be doing instead?

5Jul

By Steve WarrenNo Comments

Work Life

Leading from your values

I have previously spoken about giving away jobs not tasks. This helps people share ownership rather simply feeling like they are helping out. A leader, then, should not simply be running off a list of tasks (although I highly recommend using ‘to-do lists’.) The reason doing this only is a mistake is you never will know whether as a leader you are doing the right tasks. Therefore, determining your values is the only healthy way to determine your activities. When you know what values are important to you and your area of responsibility then you know what tasks, jobs and decisions are of highest priority. You will also find it easier making those decisions, as decisions will line up with values. As a Church for example hospitality, discipleship, faith and the presence of God are all cor

24Jun

By Steve WarrenNo Comments

Work Life

How can I create ownership in my team?

People sometimes ask me the question “how do I create ownership amongst people in my team or Connect group?” Like any question there is never one single answer, but rather a network of things we can do. But let me focus on one thing : "Don’t just give away tasks, give away jobs” If in your team you have a task called ‘buying a bowl of apples for the information desk’ - you can give that as a task to someone. This means it goes on a rosta and when it is my turn on the rosta I go and buy the apples. I don’t necessarily own it, or own the purpose of the team, I simply help out by buying the apples. Whilst this is a good entry point for helping people begin to serve, what is much better for ownership is to give this as a job to one person. Now a person in the team has a job, it’s their

15Sep

By Steve WarrenNo Comments

Personal Life

Thrive : Connect. Grow. Serve. Disciple

It would be the desire of every one of us to thrive in life. It would be the desire if any pastor to see the members if their church thriving. To thrive is to do life well. Not that life is well all of the time, but that our navigation of life is done well. So therefore, it is possible to thrive in adversity as much as in times of ease. As a community of believers there are 4 active things we can do to help us thrive in church life. 1. CONNECT. To connect is to engage. To engage is to plug into that which has life, health and future in it. Connecting with God and His Word through connecting with Church and His people is Godly vitality to us. To connect to a weekend service every week, to engage in a connect group and church community of youth, young adults, a community of me