Intensive Parental Training Program part 1

discovered these during out latest babysitting adventure with the Dale’s baby boy, Elliott.

 

think we’ll be purchasing a few.  Love the crumberbun.

leadership types from Craig Groeschel

Different Styles of Leaders

As I’ve studied our different campuses and teams, I’ve noticed that many leaders exhibit one of four different styles of leadership. (I’m sure there are many more, but these are the common ones I’ve observed.)

The four styles I most often observe include:

1. Relational leaders: These leaders motivate others through personal connections.
2. Visionary leaders: These leaders move people by painting a picture of what “could be.”
3. Administrative leaders: These leaders move the ball forward by organizing groups of people with clear boundaries, expectations, and accountability.
4. Innovative leaders: These leaders find new ways to accomplish old objectives.

Although no leader should be boxed into one style, recognizing and capitalizing on strengths and style can be extremely helpful. This week we’ll spend some time discussing each style.

What is your dominant and secondary style of those listed?

 

Relational Leaders

Some leaders accomplish a ton by leveraging their relational skills. These leaders often move others to do extraordinary things simply because they have relational equity.

I’ve noticed several things about relational leaders:

• They tend to remember names. Relational leaders (who may not be naturally inclined to remember names) care so much about others that remembering names becomes a priority.
• They are others focused. Instead of talking about themselves, relational leaders ask questions and love to listen.
• They remember details. Because relational leaders care, they’ll often remember anniversaries, birthdays, or details about previous conversations.
• They extend gratitude. When someone helps a relational leader accomplish a goal, this leader never takes it for granted. She is quick to write a note of gratitude or brag on others publicly.

Even though these leaders have a ton of upside potential, this style has some potential challenges:

• They may be slow to make difficult calls. Because these leaders care so much about people, they may hesitate making the right decision for fear of hurting others.
• They can become people pleasers. By nature, relational leaders want to please. If left unchecked, this can become problematic.
• They may place an unnecessary lid on growth. Some relational leaders will unconsciously limit growth because they can’t get to know everyone. If this leaders isn’t careful, he might unintentionally slow momentum by trying to be friends with everyone.

Visionary Leaders

God often uses visionary leaders to accomplish big things. These forward looking leaders can inspire large groups to make tremendous sacrifices toward a future vision.

I’ve noticed several upsides about visionary leaders:

• They are inspirational. If you want quick movement forward, these leaders can get it done.
• They are gifted fundraisers. God often uses these leaders to inspire people to give generously to help those in need, to start churches, to evangelize the lost, or to build buildings.
• They’re effective during challenging times. A visionary leader can move people to endure challenges and work through tough times with courage.

Some blind spots could include:

• Some talk better than they do. They may promise a different future but not know how to get there. The visionary leader must have the right people around her or she’ll stall in no time.
• Some can be hardheaded. These visionary leaders often believe their way is best and fail to listen to the wisdom of others.
• Some become vulnerable to pride lusts of the flesh. I’m not sure why, but these leaders seem to “fall” more than others.

Administrative Leaders

Some effective leaders would be called administrative or operational leaders.

These people are often effective at several things.

• They seem to intuitively select the right people. These leaders have a gift at selecting, training and releasing the right people to do ministry.
• They tend to build good systems. Administrative leaders build systems with clear guidelines and expectations. They set necessary accountability to make sure there is proper follow through.
• They cover the details. While a visionary leader may overlook details, administrative leaders dot the “I’s and cross the “T’s”.

Some of the challenges administrative leaders occasionally have include:

• Focusing on the task more than people. These leaders often believe the end goal is no matter the relational cost.
• Micro-managing others. Because these leaders care so much about the end product, they often hover over others and frustrate those they work with.
• Forget the relational end of ministry. Without meaning to, administrative leaders can obsess details and overlook caring for people.

Innovative Leaders

Innovative leaders seem to find a way to get something done when others say there isn’t a way. Here are a few of their positive qualities:

• Limitations don’t seem to limit: Instead of feeling defeated by obstacles, these leaders are often inspired to create a new path.
• Exponential growth is possible: Instead of growth by addition, these leaders often see growth by multiplication. The right idea can change everything.
• These leaders generally attract other “out of the box” leaders: Innovative leaders attract other innovative thinkers.

These leaders have some potential challenges including:

• Obsession: Sometimes these leaders can become so focused on one idea they forget the bigger mission.
• Boredom: When nothing “exciting or new” is going on, sometimes these leaders get bored and don’t follow through with more normal, yet important, commitments.
• Wrong Ideas: Just because someone has an innovative idea, doesn’t mean it is the right idea for this place and this time.

thoughts?

 

all of this is pulled from the SWERVE blog at:

http://swerve.lifechurch.tv/

a video update on babyHuggs

here’s the latest on the little one we will be bringing into the world in March:

Got a new camera today: Kodak V1253… money in the bizzle

this camera is off the charts and so I HAD to start makin videos immediately:  for upload time I still had to compress this down to a small AVI file, but you should SEE this puppy shoot in compressed 720p High Definition.  That’s right, beautiful HD video from a $175 camera… compressed… but still amazing.  I would recommend it

here’s the first video I could think of to shoot with it: