Live Blog From ReThink Conference – 28 Leadership Quotes From Cheryl Bachelder

Today is the second day I will be live blogging from the ReThink Leadership Conference in Atlanta, GA.  ReThink, open exclusively to senior pastors, campus pastors and executive pastors, is a unique gathering of church leaders who are committed to solving the biggest challenges facing your church and the Church.

Injoy Stewardship Solutions has dispatched me to attend this amazing event as a way to invest in your growth.  They also want to invest in your leadership by offering you our latest FREE ebook Breaking The Next Growth Barrier: 10 Things Pastors Can Do To Break Down Growth Barriers by clicking HERE for your complimentary copy.

Today’s next speaker was Cheryl A. Bachelder.  Cheryl is the CEO of Popeyes® Louisiana Kitchen, Inc. As a proponent of servant leadership, she builds highly collaborative teams with big ambitions for the enterprise, not themselves.  The following are 28 leadership quotes I captured from her session:

Jeff Henderson

1. Never tell God you’re never going to do anything.
2. Business is full-time ministry.
3. You have ministers in your church who just work in the marketplace.

Cheryl Bachelder

1. I love serving food for a living.
2. There is tons of ministry opportunity in the workplace.
3. 85% of people don’t have a clue why they work.
4. Where are you taking the people entrusted to your care?
5. How do you think about them?
6. How do you measure the impact of your leadership?
7. Serve. Perform.
8. A leader with the courage to take people to a daring destination but the humility to care for them during the journey.
9. We chose to lead the people to a daring destination.
10. We made a Roadmap To Results.
11. We chose to love the people we lead.
12. The day we decided to love them is when the business started to turn.
13. Franchisees now rate their satisfaction with Popeye’s at 95%.
14. We had to deliver results. The results are the only reason we can talk about our convictions.
15. No one wants to hear your convictions if you don’t deliver the results.
16. There’s no serving the enterprise well if you don’t perform.
17. Leaders always think they have the biggest and best ideas.
18. Alignment is a powerful thing.
19. The big idea was a longer wait period to get to the destination but the impact was greater than we imagined.
20. Investing into an economic downturn was a big part of the turnaround because everyone retreats.
21. Part of being a servant leader is not assuming you know what is wrong and what to do.
22. Trust is the foundation of everything in business or any leadership role.
23. In turnarounds, look for people who share your values and will come alongside you.
24. Trust was a competitive advantage.
25. You have to declare that talking bad about your team is no longer allowed.
26. Every conviction I have about leadership came out of a brutal wrestling match.
27. Your convictions come from trials, not successes.
28. But only one thing matters in parenting, to bring those kids into a relationship with the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

I can’t wait for the afternoon sessions.

As previously mentioned, INJOY Stewardship Solutions would like to offer you the FREE resource Breaking The Next Growth Barrier: 10 Things Pastors Can Do To Break Down Growth Barriers.  Click HERE or on the image to the left for your complimentary copy.