Today, I have been dispatched by INJOY Stewardship Solutions to live blog Exponential 2018. I could not think of the day starting out any better than attending a 4-hour workshop put on by Shawn Lovejoy and the Courage To Lead team about building healthy teams. The greatest blessing and burden you’ll ever have in ministry … is your TEAM … or lack thereof!
Shawn and his team are just incredible leaders. If you are looking for pastoral or staff coaching, click HERE and contact them TODAY! You will not be disappointed. Shawn was joined by team members Chris Bell, Eric Metcalf, and Blake Stanley who delivered the next session. I was blown away by their wisdom and insight.
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Now onto, 19 Leadership Quotes From Blake Stanley On Valuing Team Values:
- “You’re not to shake up a church if you’re not in authority.” – Chris Bell
- “If they are able to weigh in they will buy in.” – cb
- “At least if you lead incorrectly you’ve got something to correct.” – cb
- “Jesus created bottom-up leadership.”
- “Leadership is not climbing the ladder. It is going to the bottom.”
- “Executive leadership serves the staff. The staff serves the leaders. The leaders serve the church. The entire church serves Jesus.”
- “The 3 F’s of Empathy – Feel, Felt and Found.”
- “When your calling is lifted it becomes miserable. And your people can feel that. The church always has to win.”
- “There are things on the walls of many churches but it’s clear they don’t value those things… These are aspirational values at best.”
- “We need to move from aspirational to applied values.”
- “We have the same set of values for everyone who attends 3 Circle Church who considers themselves leaders.”
- “Treat leaders like leaders.”
- “We eat last. The first people to eat are the privates.”
- “We give the last 10% at 3 Circle Church. People usually say 90% of what they think. We want your last 10% because your voice matters.”
- “The last 10% needs to be in the guardrails of honor and respect.”
- “If someone wants to have a ‘Last 10%’ conversation with you, that goes to the top of your priority list.”
- “Values are great. Applied values is what you want to have within the organization.”
- “The quickest thing to get your fired at our church is repeated offenses of breaking our values.”
- “Mission is the boss at the end of the day.”
This was just a great session. Keep checking back. More to come.
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