Like many of you I have been a student of leadership all my adult life. I\u2019ve read probably 100 or more definitions of it. It\u2019s an elusive quality. And when it\u2019s present amazing things happen.<\/p>\n
In the providence of God, He has made His church heavily leadership-reliant. At the head of every church that is growing and impacting its community and culture, there is a leader. Anointed, called, equipped with God\u2019s favor, that leader is leading boldly forward. WHile this list is not exhaustive, I\u2019ve found there are at least three essentials that every leader brings to every great church, business, organization, or family:<\/p>\n
Essential #1: A clear and compelling vision. <\/span> Leaders do vision. They see the future and the present. They observe things and images appear in their minds: things that aren\u2019t but should be and could be if all the right things came together.<\/p>\n Leaders with clear and compelling visions can reduce them to a sentence, even a word; can tell them convincingly to a group, or one-on-one. They can transfer that vision to the hearts of many people. And when that happens, really amazing things are created.<\/p>\n Essential #2: Ideas.<\/span> Every great leader brings compelling ideas to the table. They are not just great vision guys, they are also \u201cwhat if\u201d guys. They can ask the question, \u201cWhat if?\u201d and expose a great idea hiding right there in the potential of the vision, Leaders deal in ideas, not petty power maneuvers or personality conflicts. When people say it\u2019s not personal, it\u2019s business, what they\u2019re really saying is it\u2019s all about the idea, not the person behind it.<\/p>\n Essential #3: Great leaders bring energy to their group or organization.<\/span> Great leaders are happy, enthusiastic, passionate. That passion can often be misunderstood as anger. And sometimes when their vision and ideas aren\u2019t moving forward at the pace they had hoped (when do they ever actually?) a leader can become frustrated. The energy can go sideways and become counter-productive. Good or bad, a leader brings energy into every organization. If you make sure that energy is aligned and moving down the field toward the goal, it\u2019s an infectious thing; something great to behold.<\/p>\n Those are my three essentials: Vision, Ideas, and Energy. What are yours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like many of you I have been a student of leadership all my adult life. I\u2019ve read probably 100 or more definitions of it. It\u2019s an elusive quality. And when it\u2019s present amazing things happen. In the providence of God, He has made His church heavily leadership-reliant. At the head of every church that is … Continue reading “Three Things Leaders Bring to the Table”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}