In this podcast, Lance shares some key attributes for being a successful leader by helping people and organizations grow.

Notes:

• In the Genesis narrative, we find plants, sea life and land animals bearing seed so they can reproduce.

• Within God’s created order, we find the ability and responsibility to produce and reproduce.

• Production is within humanity’s creative order and desire.

• This is the heart of leadership at Stage 3.

3. Production Stage - (Results)

1. Initiate and accept responsibility for growth.

   • Initiate

   • Accept Responsibility

     • Communicate clearly

     • Get feedback

     • Adjust

     • Apologize, Celebrate, Challenge - Underscored by a win/win vision

   • Grow.

     • Feels like humility, looks like learning (skills, mindsets) and adjusting relationally (communication, care, connection, understanding)

   • Three Growth Areas

     • Self Growth

       • Spiritual Life, Home Life, Relationships, Finances, Emotional Health

     • Others Growth

       • This is the heart of a win/win vision.

     • Team/Organization Growth

       • Growth of your culture

       • People with a convergence of lifestyles, skills and clarity of purpose, built around core beliefs, values, practices and relational covenant.

2. Role model, teach and equip others with vision, mission and values.

   • Michael Brodeur says in his Thriving Church Manual that, “Vision is what you see off in the future. Mission is what you do to accomplish what you see. Mission consists of primary, big blocks of achievement with goals and objectives as the sub blocks of achievement. Values are the almost indefinable basis by which you judge the relative worth of one thing compared to another. Values determine the flavor, style, the how, and the why of what you’re doing.”

3. Develop accountability for results, beginning with self.

   • Review and Reflect

     • What did we accomplish?

     • Is what we accomplished in alignment with our culture, purpose and stated goals? If not, why not?

   • Adjust and Establish

     • What do we need to eliminate or change?

     • What do we need to do more of or do again?

   • Share and Measure

     • Who needs this insight so we have effective collaboration and empowerment?

     • Who needs this insight so we are leading with healthy accountability?

Action Steps for Progressing in Leadership Stages:

1. What stage of leadership am I currently in with most people?

2. What stage of leadership am I currently in with other influencers on my team or within my company? List them.

3. What will I commit to be, learn and do so I can grow through the stages with those that I lead?

Resource:

• The 5 Levels of Leadership by John Maxwell

• Developing a Leadership Culture by Danny Silk

• Pastors Coach by Michael Brodeur