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Team leading skills
I got my key team to do this exercise last night: Rate yourself from 1-10 (ten being sensational) in each of these areas. Then add up and give yourself a mark out of 100.
Note: 10 would mean that you cannot possibly improve at all; 30 allegra mg you are the best that you can be in an area (I would suggest that you probably won’t get any 10′s).
1. Enthusiasm – Your role as leader is a ‘dispenser of enthusiasm’. Are you an enthusiastic, passionate leader?
2. Encouragement – Does your team feel encouraged when you are present, or do they run like scared rabbits when you enter the room, little white eyes glowing in the dark corner they are sheltering in?
3. Innovation – “If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less” – General Eric Shinseki. This is not just doing something new… but finding a new way to do something.
4. Talking to Parents - How many parents do you engage in meaningful conversation during weekend services? Repeat this after me: “Parents are my friend”.
5. Talking to Kids – How is your child voice? How do you rate yourself on talking to kids? Have you ever had a discussion on the lifespan of tamagotchi, or what the heck Jesus was doing when he rubbed spit and mud in that blind mans eyes!
6. Ringing Your Team – Does your team know who you are? Or are they wandering around in volunteer Hades, eyes blinded to the wonders of being an informed, appreciated, loved, passionate leader.
7. Catching up with your Team – Have you ever seen one of your team outside of a weekend service? Has any of your team seen your kitchen?
8. Recruiting new leaders – Have you mastered the art of subtly directing conversation towards finding out if a person involved in church life through serving? Or do your conversations consist of “Hello, hows it going? — Good, see ya”.
9. Remembering Names - Do your conversations with children always start “Hey… um… CHAMPION! — Have you had a good week?” Or do you actually remember the most important word in spoken language — the child’s name!
10. Identifying Growth Areas – If you make your area of responsibility 1% better each weekend, then in two years you will be 104% better! That’s over twice as good! Or do you wander around like a blind man, in a dark room, looking for a black cat that that isn’t there!
Rate yourself out of 10 for each of these areas and then add them up for a score out of 100.
If you are feeling brave, post your score in the comment section below. If not then curl up in a little blanket, sucking your thumb and muttering under your breath… ‘There’s no place like home, there’ no place like home’
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I think the most challenging thing for a parent and children’s ministry leader is to have a prophetic eye for children.
Most of the time parents are busy taking the children from class to class, from dance to football, from piano to gymnastics, from iceskating to swimming….just trying to find out what their children like or what they’re good at. They spend huge amount of money, energy, time and petrol, and by the time they find out what they should be aiming at training their kids it’s most likely already too late and the prime training time has been wasted. If we can have a prophetic eye or ear to know what God has gifted the child, then parenting can be so much easier and it can also be purpose driven! A wise parent knows you can’t expect a child to be extraordinary in every area. But every child is gifted in certain area. God has called every child into greatness, but in a specific area.
But the thing is, would anyone, any leader of the church dare to give a child a prophecy?
I understand there’s big fear of error. But as a parent I actually don’t mind that as it at least gives me a chance to try that first.
Dave, this is definitely a GREAT reminder of some important aspects of ministry – it’s more than the Sunday morning programing… So much of our success is based on people and the relationships we develop with them. Without taking the time to be interested in our kids’ lives, we will miss out on valuable opportunities to relate to them and thus influence them in a positive way. Kids are smart – they can tell when they are just one of the crowd and when they are viewed as a special, unique individual who is worth the time to get to know. I think a lot of the time we get caught up in the details of the programs we run and we forget why we are running them. Hopefully, this list will prove as a quick and easy self-check to make sure our priorities are in the right order.
Thanks Jessica,
You are exactly right, our programs need to work for us, not us for our programs.
Dave