Leadership At Its Best

Posted on 30. Jun, 2008 by frank in leadership, my church

As I continue to lead our summer interns, I am amazed at the passion and talent each of them bring to the ministry workplace each and every day. They are working hard at performing their assigned tasks with excellence but it is also beautiful to see them putting just as much effort into self examination and trying to figure out what God is trying to teach them about themselves throughout this experience.

I want to do my best to aid them every step of the way. Craig Groeschel (Lifechurch.tv) recently posted 10 things he has learned about developing people that I thought was useful to share:

1. Honest, immediate, and consistent feedback on performance is invaluable.
2. Developing strengths nets a bigger return than developing weaknesses.
3. Developing others takes a ton of time in the early seasons and produces huge results with smaller investments in future seasons.
4. You will see a better ministry return by investing in your star team members than you will by investing in weaker players.
5. You will have to allow people to fail if you want them to improve.
6. Great coaches are great encouragers.
7. If you don’t schedule intentional time for developing others, you aren’t likely to do it.
8. God can use you to pull more out of a person than the person may believe exists.
9. The person you are developing can also help develop you—if you will ask questions and listen.
10. The best people builders develop others to develop others.

Recently I asked our interns to blog during the internship to force them to take time to reflect during the experience. Here are their links:

April Tatta – Quack, It All Starts Here

Melissa Jaworski – When No-One’s Watching

Brendon Foulke – Give Me Something To Think About

Adam Flora – Dangerous Wonder

Alex Stenman – A Hitchhikers Guide To Ministry