Logan Leadership

You know how working in the church goes… if you don’t set aside time for the truly important things, you end up spending your time putting out fires and running from urgent issue to urgent issue.

Come plan with us. We have time set aside on June 13-14 in Chicago. You can join us for an interactive planning workshop that will point you in the right direction. You’ll walk away with clear action steps and a strategic plan to get you where you want to go. In addition, you can choose your own course of follow-through:

At a karate studio, the instructor sets up orange cones to create a square for the kids to run laps around. One little boy jumps across the inside of the cone instead of running around the outside of it. The instructor is immediately on it: “No cutting corners!” The boy had literally cut a corner.

Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty. — Proverbs 21:5 NLT

“Effective leaders, in my observation, do not start with their tasks. They start with their time. And they do not start out with planning. They start by finding out where their time actually goes. Then they attempt to manage their time and to cut back unproductive demands on their time. Finally they consolidate their ‘discretionary’ time into the largest possible continuing units. This three step process– recording time, managing time, and consolidating time– is the foundation of leader effectiveness.” — Peter Drucker  

This week I’m doing a five-part series to help you critically examine and sharpen your own ministry. The goal is to create a template that will allow you to serve as a consultant for your own ministry… a way of reflecting, assessing and clarifying where you are and where you want to go.

Today is step 5: leadership starting point. No matter how big your goal, you have to start with where you’re at. In the same way, if you want to develop leaders, you need to start with people who are not yet leaders. Today we’ll think through the qualifications for potential or beginning leaders. Reflect on the questions below and journal your responses.

This week I’m doing a five-part series to help you critically examine and sharpen your own ministry. The goal is to create a template that will allow you to serve as a consultant for your own ministry… a way of reflecting, assessing and clarifying where you are and where you want to go.

Today is step 4: leadership specializations. Assuming your leaders have the basic character and life skills qualities outlined during the previous blog entry, you’ll now need to move on to consider specific leadership qualities for different ministry areas. In other words, what kinds of leaders do you need? Engage in the exercises and reflection questions below to determine your specific leadership needs.

This week I’m doing a five-part series to help you critically examine and sharpen your own ministry. The goal is to create a template that will allow you to serve as a consultant for your own ministry… a way of reflecting, assessing and clarifying where you are and where you want to go.

Today is step 3: general leadership outcomes. These are the qualities and behaviors that you want to see in all of your ministry leaders, regardless of their specific role or giftedness. Reflect and journal on the questions below to create a general picture of what a leader in your ministry should look like.