Episode 39: Moving People Forward - Part 1

Starting a new series on how to help people move forward, Lance shares with us 4 realities necessary to help ourselves move forward first.

Notes:

I’ve said it quite often, and I borrow it from Pete Scazzero, “You can’t give what you don’t have; you can’t take people where you haven’t been.”

So the first key to moving people forward is to ensure that I am moving forward. You must lead yourself, lead by example and role model what you want others to believe, to do, what attitude to have, etc. It’s the only way to lead. John Maxwell calls it influence rooted in credibility, humility and teachability.

Here are four realities about forward movement.

Reality #1: Movement forward can be reactive or proactive. I don’t believe we can eliminate ALL reactive decisions, but we can minimize the number of times it happens with proactive leadership and decision making.

What are you doing to ensure that you are increasing proactive leadership, thereby reducing reactive leadership?

  1. Reflection - Quietness

  2. Conversation with others

  3. Alignment to mission, vision and values

  4. Assessing risk-reward

  5. Development, empowerment and release of others

Reality #2: Movement forward requires us to embrace change. Change is not evil, adversarial or predatory, but is a beautiful opportunity to become the kind of person Jesus wants you to be and to do the supernatural things He has called you to do.

Reality #3: Movement forward needs to be towards Meaning as a core value. Move forward towards a life that is more meaningful and adds more value to others.

Reality #4: Movement forward is the result of intentionality, focus and trust. It’s within our ability to be intentional and to be focused and it’s within our responsibility to engage the unknown future with trust.

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Questions to Consider:

  1. How willing am I to embrace a process that produces change? What do I need in order to believe that change is good?

  2. How will I make more proactive decisions?

  3. What does meaningful leadership look like and what will I do to live a more meaningful life?

  4. What will I do to help me be more intentional, focused and trusting?

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