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Flops, Failures, Fumbles

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“When we talk about how good we are, we emotionally disqualify the people around us.” John Maxwell

People are impressed with success but impacted by our failures.

• If we’re going to lead well, we must talk about success as well as failure.•Makes the leader reachable.•Makes those learning teachable.

How to get a great ROF: Return on Failure1.What would you attempt to do if you knew you wouldn’t fail?•This question removes the fear of failure. It gets you going.•The problem with just this question is you will eventually fail.• It sets you up for success and provides a positive attitude but doesn’t prevent failure.•It gets you going.2.What would you attempt to do if you knew you WOULD fail, but you knew

you would learn, grow, and get better?

How to Flip Your Flops, Failures and Fumbles1.Optimism: believe there is always an answers, there is always a benefiting each   situation2.Responsibility: Changing your response by taking responsibility for a failure, then learning and improving because of it. If you don’t feel responsible for the failure, you won’t feel the need to learn and improve from it.3.Humility: Having a teachable spirit and accepting feedback from others4.Collaboration: Learn to share your mistakes and learn from those around you.5.Resilience: Say good-bye to yesterday6.Initiative: Act and face your fears

Now it is your turn•Of the six items that we just discussed, which ones are you good at and how can you improve even more?•Where am I weak and how can I improve?

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Sometimes You Win Sometimes You Learn

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The Robert Schuller Question: “What would you attempt to do if you knew you wouldn’t fail?”

The John Maxwell Question: “What have you learned from your failure?”

The Roadmap For Learning

Humility – The Spirit of Learning

Reality – The Foundation of Learning

Responsibility – The First Step of Learning

Improvement – The Focus of Learning

Hope – The Motivation of Learning

Teachability – The Teachability of Learning

Adversity – The Catalyst of Learning

Problems – The Opportunity for Learning

Bad Experiences – The Perspective of Learning

Change – The Price of Learning

Maturity – The Value of Learning

Improvement – The Focus of Learning

Improving yourself is the first step to improving everything else. It is the capacity to develop and improve that distinguishes leaders from followers. Improvement forces us out of our Comfort Zone – it requires a temporary surrender of security. Improvement is a daily exercise.

Teachability – The Attitude of Learning

The most important skill to acquire is learning how to learn. That skill begins with a teachable attitude.

The DNA of A Teachable Person

It all starts with a beginner’s mindset. How do you maintain a beginner’s mindset. It is a three-fold process: (1) Everyone has something to teach me (2) Everyday I have something to learn (3) Every time I learn something I benefit.

Problems Are The Opportunity For Learning

Do not wait for a problem to solve itself. Do not aggravate the problem. Communicate constantly and consistently. People respond to problems by often isolating  from one another and communicating to one another.

Winning Isn’t Everything But Learning Is

Learning often decreases when winning increases. First-place is not an easy place to remain. WHY? “Been there – Done that!” The Entitlement Mindset. Playing to not loose.

There are two zones you need to be aware of:

(1) Your Strength Zone — what you do well, and

(2) Your Comfort Zone — what you feel comfortable doing. 

To lessen your failure rate and be more successful you need to find the right combination of zones.

• If you’re…Outside of your Strength Zone and Outside of your

Comfort Zone = Bad and impossible to Win.

• If you’re…Outside of your Strength Zone and Inside of your

Comfort Zone = Bad and at best Average.

• If you’re…Inside of your Strength Zone and Inside of your

Comfort Zone = Good but not Great.

• If you’re…Inside of your Strength Zone and Outside of your

Comfort Zone = Great and continual Winning.

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Courage

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“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at its testing point.” — C.S. Lewis

7 Key Benefits of Courage

Courage enables you to maximize the potential of yourself and others. It has been said that life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. The Law of Expansion says that Growth Always  Increases Your Capacity. Leadership has at its center the requirement of courage. You cannot be a leader unless you find a way of developing and generating courage in yourself and then “encouraging” others.

Courage sustains you to live a life of few regrets. Our lives begin to end the day we remain silent about things that really matter.” — Martin Luther King

Courage allows you to climb as you step up the ladder of life. It has been said that courage is a muscle that is strengthened by use.

Courage encourages you during uncertain times. The Special Olympic Prayer says; “Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.

Courage propels you to reinvent yourself as often as needed. Courage can be viewed as the power to leave the familiar.

Courage sustains you long enough to win. “If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, ‘I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.’” — Ann Landers. 

Courage advances your voice. People do not follow titles, they follow courage – William Brown. Respect on difficult ground.  JFK once stated, “The stories of past courage…can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.”

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Leadershift by John Maxwell

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Leadership Landmines

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Many leaders never achieve their potential because they are “blown up” by

problems they never see coming. Because of the fear and anxiety of this pandemic year that many leaders have experienced it is worth our time to examine some leadership landmines. Keep in mind the mental – emotional health of spiritual leaders is 10x greater this year than any other year in history in which tracking data has been gathered. 

Seasons of crisis can produce fear and anxiety in the hearts of leaders. When our vision becomes obscure due to crisis management, we can miss some obvious landmines that can blow up our leadership effectiveness. While we could create quite a list of potential landmines, in this podcast we will examine three landmines.

Landmine #1 – TODAY’S SUCCESS

What got you here will not keep you here! Yesterday ended at midnight! The wrong question to be asking is “Does this job have a future?” The correct question to ask is “Do I have a future?” If what you did 5 years ago still satisfies you – you have no future. So how do we avoid this landmine?

  1. You must recognize this landmine. Joe Frazier once stated the punch that knocks you out is the one you did not see coming.

2. Keep growing personally. Growth = Change!

3. Continually as, is there a better way?

4. Be willing to seek out and pay for outside Coaching. You cannot obtain a proper perspective until you get out of the frame. Do not assume that you have the clearest perspective and vision on your leadership.

5. Don’t protect the past. Do not build a memorial to it. Recognize that it is OK to be embarrassed by your past because today you have grown beyond your past. None of us were that good in our past.

6. Build on your success do not sit on it. Keep people around you who not impressed with you. This provokes you to excel unless you see these people as a threat.

Landmine #2 – Loosing Touch With Your People

An isolated leader is an ineffective leader! How do we avoid Loosing Touch With People?

  1. Recognize this landmine. Success leads to withdrawal – “I don’t need to see the people. Failure leads to withdrawal – “I don’t want to see the people.”

2. Value People – they are your only appreciable asset!

3. Avoid Positional Thinking – Do not fall into the positional trap!

4. Love the people you lead – people don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care!

5. Understand that you are in the people business6.Understand and live into the Law of Significance. This law states that one is too small of a number to achieve greatness!

Landmine #3 – Betrayal of Trust

Warren Bennis claims that trust is one of six basic ingredients of leadership.

“Integrity is the basis of trust, which is not so much an ingredient of

leadership as it is a product. It is the one quality that cannot be acquired,

but must be earned. It is given by coworkers and followers, and without it,

the leader cannot function.” Trust is the foundation upon which relationships

in every setting are built.

Receiving Trust from others is the result of

  Character

  Confidence

  Consistency

  1. Value character more than success.

 2. Focus on shared goals more than personal agendas

3. Do the right thing regardless of personal risk

4. Be accountable to others5.Follow the Golden Rule

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The Crisis Leader

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Bad situations in life needs good leadership. For some leaders a crisis will put them on the top. For some leaders, a crisis will topple them.

Here are 7 Leadership Practices in Times of Crisis

Stand Up and Be Seen

During a crisis leaders serve as a repository of people’s fears and they absorb their uncertainties. A crisis is not the time to lock yourself in a Board Room and engage strategy sessions. You need to be seen by the people.

Embrace Brutal Optimism

“Churchill paradox.” On the one hand was the Prime Minister’s

grim promise of “blood, toil, tears, and sweat” in the near term.

On the other was his upbeat certainty that England would prevail

“however long and hard the road may be.”

Stick To The Facts

A leaders is a symbol as a matter of fact not by choice. John Gardner stated once that if your actions undermine your words, you will create problems that no amount of jawboning can fix. Be slow to speak but always speak accurately!

Tell A Story In A Statement

Consider these Presidential statements:•”I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.” Abraham Lincoln•”In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.” John F. Kennedy•”The most fortunate of us all in our journey through life frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which greatly afflict us. To fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives.” Thomas Jefferson

Bottom Line Comes Second

We shouldn’t have to tell you what comes first. The most important

thing is to have people know that they’re secure and cared about – that

they’re not just cogs (Dee Soder). Because many workers feel a company reveals its true colors during a crisis, companies that come off as insensitive, or grudging, run the risk of alienating employees permanently.

Link The Ordinary To The Extraordinary

When a Crisis occurs, Leaders must Stabilize, Organize and Mobilize.

Do Not Overreach 

So you’ve done everything right, you’ve earned your leadership merit

badge, and now your people are giving you a standing ovation. Next piece

of advice: They’re not really cheering for you. They’re cheering for

themselves – and for the group’s ability to unite and persevere under

threat. Lose sight of that, and you violate the delicate compact between

leaders and led.

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Never Waste A Crisis

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Definition of CRISIS: A crisis is an intense time of difficulty requiring a decision that will be a turning point.

“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

There are two (2) key thoughts to cover in this Podcast

A Crisis Reveals What Is Inside of You•Choices make us – A crisis reveals us•Believe in yourself – You will become on the outside what you believe on the inside•Watch your attitude – During tough times, your attitude is what separates successful people from those who fail•It has been said that “Life asks a question of every leader that gauges their effectiveness and wisdom: ‘What have you been through?’” Show me your scars!

It Is Our Decisions and Not Our Conditions That Determines The Quality of Life•There are three (3) key decisions that you make prior to a crisis: Values, Mission, & Responsibility.•Courageous Decisions – What Must Be Done •Good Leaders make things happen in good times•Great Leaders make things happen in bad times•The Law of Countability suggests that Teammates Must Be Able To Count On Each Other. “People Can Usually Trace Their Success and Failures To the Relationships in Their Lives.”•Priority Decisions: What Must Be Done First•Peter Drucker stated once that first things are always first and second things are not at all.•Have faith in God for the things that you cannot control•Stay focused on these four (4) realities: By God’s Appointment; In His Keeping; Under His Training; For His Name.

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Digital Vs. Physical Gathering

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We are now into Week #32 of our COVID journey. Pause for just a minute to realize what has happened in 2020. Who would have thought we all would be facing the circumstances of what this pandemic has done to our national way of living. Yet, here we are traveling through new territory – masks, social distancing, quarantined, work from home, partial use of our church buildings. WOW! What a change of life-style.

The national data at week 32 is telling an interesting story and enforcing what was already true pre-covid. So here is the current snapshot. Regarding church gathering physically or digitally here are the numbers:

52% want physical gathering

9% want digital only church

35% want a hybrid – both physical and digital gathering for church

When you look at these numbers we are clearly divided, almost equally (52% – 44%) on physical versus digital church. These numbers would have been unheard of pre-covid.

Here is where the data information is even more compelling when you consider the Millennials and Gen-Z’s.

37% want physical gathering

13% want digital only

40% want both digital and physical options

This represents a 53% to 37% leaning more in the direction of digital over physical. However, it is not until you dive deeper in understanding the Millennials and Gen-Z’s that the real narrative emerges.

Digital Babylon represents the world these generations have been raised in and influenced greatly. Of those 18-29 years old that have had a certain level of exposure to church are broke out into 4 categories.

Prodigals (Ex-Christians) 22% – Do not currently identify as Christian even though they once did identify.

Nomads (Unchurched) 30% – Those who identify as Christian but have not attended church in the past month.

Habitual Churchgoers 38% – Those who describe themselves as Christian and have attended church at least once in the last month.

Resilient Disciples 10% – Identify as Christian, attend church at least once monthly and engage with their church other than attendance at services; firmly believe the bible; committed to Jesus personally and believe he arose from the dead; express a desire for society to come to faith in Christ. (Faith For Exiles – David Kinnaman/Mark Matlock)

Keep in mind these categories are those who were either raised or had close contact with the church in their formattable years. Here are some KEY TAKE AWAYS.

•The tension between digital versus physical gathering exists because the 18-29-year old’s want personal engagement over being counted as a number for church attendance. 

•This generation represents 72.1 million – this is the greatest mission the church has ever seen. This generation is shifting the narrative from just content and its presentation to relational connection.

•There is a shift from information over-load to personal engagement – human to human. It is almost as if we are moving away from information everywhere and easy everywhere to knowing and being know as a human being.

•“Native Content” creation is the newest challenge. Live-streaming physical facility content will not reach this generation. Native Content represents a conversational presentation that allows for a dialogue over a monologue.

This challenge is what energizes me and gets me up in the morning. We can pivot faster and more radically now than anytime in church history. 

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Church Finances & COVID

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The idea of Annual Budget Projections is being put on hold by numerous Pastors. The truth of the matter is that churches should operate from a “3-Month Rolling Budget.” This means you keep and eye on the Long View Numbers, but you are only operating from a 90-day window. In other words, only the basics and bank the rest.

We are at week #31 in this COVID journey! Pastors were asked about their awareness of their congregants needs. This was broken out in 6 categories. Notice the info graphic.

When you look at this info graphic you realize that church leaders are more aware of the physical condition of their congregants than their financial well being (have they lost a job, are they struggling financially during COVID, etc.). The majority of Pastors in recent surveys stated they “somewhat understand their congregants.”

The million-dollar question is how do you lead a church without a clear comprehension of congregant needs or even know them? Now more than ever church leaders must figure out how to gain an understanding of people’s needs. Stop guessing and start leading from a position that is data informed.

In terms of church finances note the following:

17% – Higher in Giving

56% – Same 

43% – Income Exceeding Expenses

8% – Not meeting expenses (1 in 12 churches)

There is a very real sense of hesitation in church finances currently. When you stop to think about it, we do not have a planning mechanism for uncertainty. This makes connecting with people even more important.

Lean financial seasons reveals operational stress that already existed – It does not cause it! Currently churches should be operating from a 3-month rolling budget. This does not mean there should be long-view numbers to anticipate. Rather it is about operating within what matters most in the next 90 days and then bank the rest. Currently anything beyond 90-days is unclear.

This pandemic has revealed that we are not in charge! If there was a time in which churches should be thinking about unconventional streams of revenue it is now. Before, we operated Christian Schools and Day-Cares. Is it time to rethink our physical space of our churches. Our current building were designed for a form of religion that currently does not exist.

In terms of financial reserves it is now being suggested to have at least 6 months of operational cash. While that seems extreme, I personally feel that it would unwise to even dare to operate without a 2-month reserve.

What is most important?

Engagement with people is more important than attendance to our church services!

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Successful Transitions

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Communicate Clearly, Honestly, & Often

It is hard to over-exaggerate the importance of this first factor. Evidence of good communication, especially between a church’s leadership and congregation, is the single biggest factor in a smooth leadership transition. The inverse is also true!

This trend persists regardless of the events that precipitate a transition. Even when a leader is leaving under scandalous circumstances, communication is vitally important to communicate reality, but also to protect against damaging communication that can enflame.

Target Unity

This factor is a combination of perceived strengths or weaknessesbetween a congregation and the church leadership, unity within the congregation itself, and among the governing body of elders, board members, staff, and admins.

Negative emotions accompany a lack of unity. Worry, doubt, and confusion creep into the congregational narrative.

Church attendees who experience a difficult transition tend to feel worry,regret, nostalgia, and confusion. These same attendees struggle to rebound or renew their energy post-transition. Many will see increases in their negative emotions and feelings. 

On the other hand, church attendees and staff who have a sense of “we are all in this together,” are much more likely to feel hopeful.

If You Can, Plan

The reasons for a pastoral transition affects the experience, emotions, and perceived outcomes of a transition. Planned departures go more smoothly, while forced or unplanned transitions are worse on multiple outcomes. Having just stated this fact research reveals that attendees and staff are split on whether there was a succession plan in place before the transition started. It appears that only one-half of churches have a clear plan and that these plans are known by the staff. A make-it-up-as-we-go type of plan has the least chance for a smooth transition.

Aim For A Graceful Exit

Regardless of the reason for a pastors transition out of their full-time role; they undergo a dramatic life shift. The outgoing pastor is at the center of succession in more ways than one, and not always for the best. Just over 50% of pastors say the transition was hard on their family and that staff pastor relationships weakened during the transition. When transitions are gradual and not sudden, the transition experience seems to have a more positive impact.

The most positive outcome in transitions is when the outgoing andincoming pastors overlap. This is only likely when churches have a succession plan in place.

Keep Asking WHY

It is important to be aware of the motivations behind a successionprocess, not just the out-front decisions. Leadership rationale is quitedifferent than attendees. Succession plans that are based upon money and/or growth is likely to take longer, have more negative side impacts, and a higher staff turn-over.

Concerns over money is not the best rallying-cry for the incoming pastor. Also pastoral transitions has repercussions that are significant enough to caution teams to be very intentional and prayerful about setting long-term goals for their own transitions.

Pastors and leaders cannot afford to delay thinking about their transitions plans. Each transition is as unique as the leader and the congregation.Planning early and thoroughly is vitally important. Communication cannotbe over-stated – it is the heart-beat of healthy transitions.

Now is the time to assess communication strengths and weaknesses, to broaden and hone inadequate skills, and to deepen relational roots so the you thrive together in every season to come.

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Relational Health Crisis

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How big is this Relational Health Crisis? In 2019 54% of all practicing Christians stated

 they have at least one relational issue that is impacting relational connectivity. Consider also that 34% of practicing Christians were experiencing Anxiety or Depression in 2019. Since our COVID shutdown, these numbers have the potential of increasing exponentially. 

Church leaders report the following as of August 17th, 2020: 28% emotional, 35% spiritual, 27% relational. Currently, one-in-five spiritual leaders rank their mental and emotional health as below average. (Restoring Relationships Report – Barna Research 2020). Add to this discussion that practicing Christians are very likely to contact their spiritual leader for assistance in emotional relational issues by a factor of 1-in-3 will reach out to a pastor or priest.

Yes this is a serious crisis!

Consider that 89% of spiritual leaders state they “Somewhat” understand the emotional/relational health of their attendees. Yet at the same time only 39% of these leaders have addressed this topic in their sermon/teaching schedule. There is a disconnect between knowing there is a real issue and then failing to act upon this need with real and lasting actionable steps that will help people.

It is interesting that research shows that one-half of all adults and one half of adult practicing Christians state that very close family members or friends are where they most likely will turn for assistance. 

The emotional wellness, spiritual wellness, and relational wellness of people will not be fully understood for 2-3 years post-pandemic. The data is still shifting quickly week by week. Here ae some key positive take-aways from the current data trends.

•People’s longing for transformation is an opportunity to bring good news where people want to hear it: where they’re hurting and most in need of healing. 

•Single people who belong to a faith community have consistently higher rates of relational and emotional satisfaction than other singles. 

•More than half of all U.S. adults (58%) and practicing Christians (54%) say they have at least one relational or emotional / mental health issue that impacts their most important relationships. If you desire to be relevant speak to the hurting, they are in every row of seats in your church

•Anxiety and depression are the most commonly experienced challenges to relational satisfaction, with more than one-third of all adults and practicing Christians saying one or the other (or both) make an impact on their close relationships. 

•People who seek out spiritual help for their relational and emotional issues are more likely than others to report satisfaction with their life and relationships. 

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