Yesterday I posted the first four of eight steps pastor can take to move from the drained zone to the dream zone.
Steps 5-8:
5. Connect with other Pastors
- When you find other pastors to connect with don’t talk about your problems all the time and don’t bash others.
6. Get an assistant
- Their focus needs to be specifically on you.
- They need to be able to say “no.”
- Their role must be personalized to the pastors needs.
7. Don’t read what people say about you positive or negative.
- Negative: there are not as many of them as you think there are. They are just louder.
- Positive: leads to pride.
8. Learn to Delegate
- There are things I am doing right now that I’m not good at.
- There are people ready to take it if I would just give it to them.
- By not delegating I am hamstringing the church.
- Delegating is a mindset not a staffing issue.
- You must let your church grow past you.
- You’ve got to trust your staff and leaders.
- If you can’t trust your staff with your kids than you should fire them.
- When delegating, if someone can do it 80% or above the way you do it than give it to them and stay out of the way.
- When someone asks you what you think they should do, you should throw it back at them.
- Give people permission to fail.
- If you delegate a task, give it 100% away. Do not take it back. Coach people through it.
- Do not micro-manage.
- Cast big vision and give people guardrails.
- The toughest thing about letting go is letting go.
- Gather key staff together and ask: what is the one thing you wish I would stop doing?
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Comments (3)
Larry Keith added these kind words on Aug 30 08 at 1:16 pmMan, that is business management 101.
Ashley Jensen added these kind words on Aug 31 08 at 11:04 pmWow! Great stuff Jeff, I am totally cutting and pasting… very nice, thanks!
Lisa Smith added these kind words on Sep 01 08 at 10:34 pmGreat Blog & Wonderful Advice!!!! Thanks for sharing!
Oh…. thank goodness you found the lizard in the house!!!! Ewwww….. but not as gross as the LICE we’ve been getting rid of on ALL the neighborhood kids all day! GROSS!!!!!


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