blending the 4 types of leaders for maximum results source: george barna seminar, “inward,...
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Blending the 4 Types of Leaders for Maximum Results
Source: George Barna seminar, “Inward, Outward, Upward: Ministry that Transforms Lives”
Strategic Leadership
• Involves a team– the body of Christ
• Highlights laity on the team
• The purpose of the team is to serve others
Definition• “Strategic leadership provides a team of people
with direction geared to maximizing their collective effectiveness based on a wise evaluation of potential courses of action and outcomes.”
• 4 key words– strategic– team– direction– collective
4 Dominant Leadership Aptitudes
• Directional leadership
• Strategic Leadership
• Team-Building Leadership
• Operational Leadership
Directional Leadership
• Focus: vision, big-picture thinking
• Strengths: communication, ability to make the right things happen
• Weaknesses: details, sensitivity to others, free-spenders (hate budgets), easily irritated by other types of leaders
Strategic Leadership
• Focus: background planner
• Strengths: analysis, objectivity in assessment, creativity, thoroughness
• Weaknesses: hate risk-taking, perfectionist, more sensitive to facts than people
Team-Building Leadership
• Focus: mobilize coalitions
• Strengths: relationship networking, gift-assessment, communicators, optimism/exhortation
• Weaknesses: details, paper-work, will stray from plan
Operational Leadership
• Focus: structural architects– the glue that holds it all together
• Strengths: details, good with $, systems thinkers
• Weaknesses: over-manage and under-lead, hate conflict
Conclusions about the 4 Types
• No leader has all four leadership aptitudes
• Each type needs the other types to facilitate transformation
• Every leadership team lives with constant dynamic tension (mutual irritation keeps church from complacency)
• Ministry effectiveness comes from complementary blending of aptitudes
“Where do I begin?”
• 1. Clearly define the leadership objective.
• 2. Assess my own leadership aptitude.
• 3. Discern aptitudes in other people.
• 4. Begin to assemble a team.
• 5. Define roles carefully on the team.
• 6. Be willing to live with dynamic tension.
• 7. Check in regularly for clear evaluation of “where we are.”
Conclusion
• “Picking the right people with the right leadership aptitudes is crucial to building the team and having a healthy, effective ministry.”
Blending the 4 Types of Leaders for Maximum Results
The Ray and Ann Spence Network for Congregational Leadership
www.rasnet.org
Copyright John P. Chandler, 2000