Live Blog From ReThink Conference – 16 Leadership Quotes From Jeff Henderson

For the next three days, 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 How To Raise Big Money For Big Projects by clicking HERE for your complimentary copy.

The morning’s next session was conducted by one of my favorite people, the absolutely delightful Jeff Henderson .  As usual, he inspired and encouraged us.  The following are 16 Leadership Quotes on Leading on Keeping The Main Thing The Main Thing:

1. The main thing is keeping the main thing the main thing.
2. Insideritis – a malady afflicting the vision of an organization resulting in focusing on insiders over outsiders.
3. The role of a leader is raising people to run the business and you be out in the community bringing in new customers.
4. Vision leaks. And so does inspiration.
5. The natural drift is towards complexion and confusion.
6. Start With Why is not the end game. You have to Stay With Why.
7. The challenge is a leader has a lot going on.
8. Circles Of Influence. We start with you. Then your core team. Then staff and board. Then volunteers. And finally the larger Community. But it all starts with you.
9. What are we here for? This is a vision inventory question.
10. 4 Rhythms – What do you meet about? What do you talk about? What do you see? What do you celebrate?
11. Everybody likes getting their Instagram photo liked. It reinforces behavior.
12. 999% of Instagram photos from churches are about what’s happening in the church. We need to be about what’s happening in the community.
13. As leaders, the main arsenal we have is what comes out of our mouths. But it helps if we can help people see it.
14. The words we use are important but if we can put visual images to it, it helps keep the main thing the main thing.
15. Celebration is something leaders can overlook.
16. One of the best things you can do as a leader is write three Thank You notes a day.

What an incredible way to start the event.  Up next is .

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