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Value Team-Work

Isn’t it interesting that as a challenge escalates the need for team-work escalates. The true measure of successful leadership is not getting people to work. The true measure of a successful leader is not getting people to work harder. The true measure of a successful leader is getting people to work hard together!

Team leaders know they do not have all of the answers, so they do not insist on providing them. They do believe however, they cannot succeed without the combined contributions of all members on the team. EGO is not a prominent concern during a crisis.

Leaders Give Hope Do you realize that out of every crisis is an opportunity to be reborn? Understand that hope is the foundation of change. As a leader your first and last task is to keep hope alive. Author Jonathon Sachs states, “One of the most important distinctions I have learned in the source of reflection on Jewish history is the difference between optimism and hope Optimism is the belief that things will get better. Hope is the faith that together we can make things better. Optimism is a passive virtue; hope is an active one. It takes no courage to an optimist, but it takes a great deal of courage to have hope.”

Leaders Make It Happen

You can always evaluate leaders by the size of the problem they are willing to tackle. If you as a leader can’t make it happen for yourself most likely you are not going to make it happens for others. Staying in your comfort zone allows you to do what you know you can do. Move into your challenge zone and you will attempt to do something that you have never tried. Understand that making things happen will require risk.

Charles Parnell wrote; “Too many people are having what we might call ‘near-life experiences.’ They go through life bunting, so afraid of failure that they never try to win the big prizes, never knowing the thrill of hitting a home run or even taking a swing at one.”

Leaders Watch Their Attitude

Attitude is a choice. We cannot always choose what happens to us, but we can chose, what happens within us. Attitude is not everything, but it is the main thing that determines how we handle problems. During tough times attitude is a separator. Understand that your accepted bar of excellence is no longer good enough!

During Tough Times Successful Leaders Trust God

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator or all I have not seen”  – Emerson

”God is too good to be unkind, and He is too wise to be confused. If I cannot trace his hand, I can always trust His heart” C. H. Spurgeon One of my professors in College, Dr Jerry Bridges wrote in his book Trusting God, states, “God never explains to us what He is doing and why. There is no indication that God ever explained to Job the reasons for all of his terrible sufferings. As leaders, we are taken behind the scenes to observe the spiritual warfare between God and Satan, but as far as we can tell from Scripture, God never told Job about that…we must conclude that God had a much higher purpose in allowing Satan’s onslaughts against Job than merely using Job as a pawn in a “wager” between himself and Satan…the story concludes with a conversation between God and Job in which Job acknowledges that through his trails he is come into a new and deeper relationship with God…We may conclude that this deeper relationship was one of the results God had in mind all along”

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