Over the next three days I have been dispatched by INJOY Stewardship Solutions to provide live-blogging the ReThink Leadership and Orange Conference. This has traditionally been one of my go-to events each year. I can’t wait for this year’s content and the opportunity to share it with you.
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Now on to the conference content:
ReThink Leadership’s next speaker of the day was the incomparable Dan Reiland. Dan has served as Executive Pastor of 12Stone Church for the past 19 years. He has served alongside John Maxwell as Executive Pastor at Skyline Church and then as VP of Leadership and Church Development for Injoy Ministries. Dan is the author of four books including his most recent Confident Leader!: Become One, Stay One. For more from Dan, click Dan Reiland’s 15 Things You Should Do When You Are Around Bigger, Stronger And Faster Leaders.
The following are 33 Leadership Quotes from his brilliant session:
- “Good coaching happens best in a developmental environment.”
- “Look for the best. Believe the best. Expect the best.”
- “There are two primary ways to make a personal investment in the staff you lead – Care and Shepherding and Training and Development.”
- “Care and Shepherding is investing a person’s life and spiritual growth.”
- “Training and Development invests in a staff’s member performance and productivity.”
- “Good coaching isn’t dependent on you alone. As a coach, you are largely a catalyst.”
- “Staff members are the owners of their growth.”
- “I will do anything to help you succeed, except your job.”
- “The catalyst is responsible for the environment, the clarity of the big picture, expectations, belief, care and development.”
- “The number cause of frustration is unmet expectations.”
- “The staff have to own their intentional effort, the own lack of progress, and results.”
- “Care for the staff + Commitment the vision + Coaching = Success”
- “If you don’t care for the outcomes of the team, members of the team will leave you.”
- “Vision (coaches have to start with the vision) to Alignment to Coaching to Capacity to Outcomes. This is the matrix for success.”
- “Vision – where are we going?”
- “Alignment – are we in it together?”
- “Coaching – are we helping each person get there?”
- “Capacity – who is able to do their job well?”
- “Outcomes – are we accomplishing what we said we would?”
- “Know the person you’re coaching.”
- “Coaching is personal. You have to establish trust to gain honesty. If you can’t establish trust, you’ll never be a good coach.”
- “Stars – About 30% are stars. They’re the hardest to coach because they’re so good. Your star players want to get better more than the other two groups. Coach their growing influence. Get them inclusion at the next table up. They can watch the next level up and how they behave. Intensity is important for a leader but no one wants to be around an intense person. Teach them how to use the throttle. Coach their strategic skills, how to think bigger and better. Pay attention to how they use an agenda. Make them bring the agenda. What was on it? How much pressure are they putting on the agenda rather than carrying it themselves? The more you send pressure up, the less influence you have. The number one thing leaders should be thinking about is solving problems. Never allow your staff to bring you only one solution. Make them focus on solving problems, not relieving pressure. Learning how to think solves 100 problems. Ideas are everything. The higher you go the more valuable an idea is. Ask them where they want to grow and help them get there. Ask, ‘I would be a better leader if…’”
- “Steady and Strong – About 60% are steady. We devalue this group way too much. You want them to break out to Strong or Stars. Stretch them. Allow them to step into an arena above their job description, a little bit over their head. But don’t give them a stretch opportunity without coaching them. Don’t give them a junk job. You just want to know a young staff member would be good at something.”
- “Struggling – About 10% are struggling. Can they? Will they? Can They is about competence. Will They is about attitude. Can They gives them patience and a long runway. As long as they keep growing. Will They receives little patience and short runway. We give a short rope on attitude. You can change your attitude. I am not paying for a bad attitude. I can get that from the congregation. We’ve got big things to solve.”
- “If you don’t figure out what to do, someone else is going to tell you what to do.”
- “Competence is the ability to do something well. Capacity is the ability to do more of that thing well.”
- “The Environment You’re In + The People You’re With = The Pressure You Can Sustain”
- “When there is someone on your staff and you know they don’t need to be on your staff, sooner or later something is going to break. If you don’t do anything, you’re embezzling God’s money.”
- “We always forget to talk about joy in the process.”
- “The number one thing that protects relationships with teammates is absolutely clear expectations.”
- “If you have a sharp, sharp candidate, hire from the inside. If you don’t, hire from the outside.”
- “Give warnings quickly and don’t wait. And put them in writing.”
- “Your job as a leader is to get the right people in the right spot.”
Dan is simply one of the greatest leaders in Christendom.
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