Written by: Bishop Derrick McKinney, I
If the church is to become effective leaders, we must foster a culture conducive to change.
Leadership is change.
God ordained change. Life is change. Nothing on earth was made to remain the same. Good leadership fosters and encourages vision which is change. Without vision (change) the people perish (Proverbs 23:18).
Good leadership fosters change. Good leadership and values conforms to the spiritual concept of God, and not me, nor I.
Good leadership is neither carnal nor self-willed.
Good leadership always demonstrates good examples. It's not what you say, but what you do; not what you believe, but how you apply what you believe.
Good leadership leads so everyone can follow.
Good leadership leads when no one follows. Good leadership seeks to encourage not discourage. We must lead the way, not be in the way. Pursue good, and stand ready to pay the price for the cause of Christ, thankful to be called and counted worthy to be trusted and depended upon by God to lead his people by example.
We are ambassadors (Joshua 9:4) (2 Cor 5:20) for positive and effective change; positive solutions with positive expectations because we positively serve a God that can do anything (Jer 32:17, 27).
Good leadership plans for change, doesn't wait for change, but follows-through with God to follow-up to lead the people.
Good leadership is established by good communication.
The Bible is defined as a holy book, equally as important it is a book of thus saith the Lord, and the word of the Lord came unto the prophet saying (Gen 15:1). This is God's communication to lead and guide man by his leadership (Jer 1:2,4,11) , Ezekiel 12:1,8,12,17,26).
Good leadership communicates, communicates, and communicates, its vision and plan of action (Gen 15:1, Num 12:6, Num 24:4, 16, 1 Sam 3:1, 2 Sam 7:17, Ha 2:2, 3).
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SUCCESSFUL LEADERSHIP ATTRIBUTES
Written by: Bishop Derrick McKinney, I
•Spiritual Focus - More concerned with meeting the expectation of God. Personal growth and church growth.
•Vision and Purposed - Inspires others with vision and purpose.
•Developing People - Ability to lead and develop others through nurturing both natural and spiritual.
•Business Acumen - Administrates business. Adheres to business protocol. Develop business strategies.
•Ethics and Values - Business attitude, sets and honest example, lives by good and honest moral and spiritual values. Adheres to the biblical code of conduct.
•Bias for Action - Offers solution to the problems not arguments, operates by faith not attitudes. Sets priorities and focuses on being an acceptable example to others.
•Goal Oriented - Adheres to the goal and vision of leadership, understands the spiritual goal and purpose of God for humanity.
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POOR LEADERSHIP ATTRIBUTES
Written by: Bishop Derrick McKinney, I
• Inflexible - Cannot adapt to different people, goals and approaches.
Disagrees too much. Double Talk. Self-willed to achieve personal goals and self-glory, self-directed to a different goal and purpose.
• Undependable - Fails to follow through as instructed. Always tardy, needs to be reminded or called for information and follow-up.
• Non-Visionary - Slow to think about future sets zero goals, more concerned about worldly things than Godly things.
•Pride - Must always be right, unwillingness to submit to other people's ideas and opinions. Arrogant, your idea is the best idea, condescends, lone ranger.
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