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Leadership Summit 2016: Danielle Strickland

Thursday, August 18, 2016

Danielle Strickland who serves as an Officer in the Salvation Army, an Advocate and author provided Summit attenders an incredible challenge to provide spiritual leadership to followers not just leadership skills that you’ve picked up along the way.

There’s a difference between spiritual leadership and good regular leadership

  • “True peace is not the absence of conflict it’s the presence of justice” Martin Luther King Jr.
  • The world is crying out for “rightness” for all of the wrong things to be made right
  • Draw a horizontal line – label it “true humility” – one end of that line is insecurity the other end is arrogance
  • True humility = agreeing with God about who you are
  • Go in the strength you already have – you already are who you are – the leader’s job is to call people into who they already are
  • God wants you for who you are
  • Draw a vertical line – label it “true dependency” – the top is self sufficiency the bottom is co-dependency
  • This is agreeing with God about who He is
  • Most of us live our lives in such a self-sufficient manner that we don’t need God to show up except for a good parking space
  • Agree with God about who you are and who He is and take that peace you find into all the world
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Leadership Summit 2016: Dr. Henry Cloud & Shauna Niequist

Thursday, August 18, 2016

There is a blind spot that every “Type A” driving leader has when it comes to self-reflection

The Illusions of Leaders: things you think are true about Leadership but aren’t really true

  • The Illusion that you can carry ever increasing amounts of speed in your life and you can simultaneously keep your soul moving in the same way
  • The Illusion that you can do it alone
  • Who you are connected to determines your ability to execute strategy. Connection increases your capacity.
  • No Connection
    • Isolation = your brain doesn’t work in isolation
    • Leadership can force you into a corner of isolation
  • Bad Connection
    • Leaves us feeling that I can’t meet expectations
  • Good Connection
    • Fake or pseudo good – we connect with something that makes us feel good (illicit relationship, success, addictions, etc.)
  • Real Connection
    • I must walk into that corner with my needs being known to another person
  • Illusion of Achievement
    • Exhaustion and isolation come from to do lists, productivity, hustle, and achievement
    • Love is not in the numbers, reports, or achievements…it’s in the other stuff…it’s something that you receive.
    • Satisfaction audit on a 10 scale
    • Are you chasing something that is ultimately going to leave you unsatisfied?

 

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Leadership Summit 2016: Bishop T.D. Jakes

Thursday, August 18, 2016

During the Summit Bill Hybels had an incredible interview with Bishop T. D. Jakes who serves as the Founder and Pastor of The Potter’s House.

  • We let people put a period by what they define us as, where I believe that God placed a
    comma. It’s the trap of being stuck by a title.
  • Find the common denominator-and then lead from the position of what do you have in common
  • We are underutilized and frustrated by not being challenged.
  • If every day’s challenge has become predictable, we have stopped growing.
  • Haters are symptoms that we are on the right track.
  • You need to appreciate the haters. They are not always wrong.
  • Success is not changing the minds of the haters.
  • If we are going to affect the world, we need to do it through stories they can relate to.
  • We keep telling people to keep coming to our churches, and we have forgotten that we are
    supposed to be going to where they are.
  • You are no greater than the people you surround yourself with!
  • Your dream should be bigger than you.
  • We have asphyxiated our dreams because we have limited ourselves with a tribal perspective when we have a global God.
  • There is always something I’m going to miss everyday. The art is to not miss the same thing twice.
  • Anytime you take on new things it is going to take you time to learn how to manage it.
  • My structure needs to be sufficient to the weight load I’m carrying.
  • The big question is what am I willing to leave behind to get where God wants me to go?
  • Systemic racism is about whether or not you have included them in the plans for success.
  • We were created by a creator to be creative. We act more like God when we are creative!
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Leadership Summit 2016: John Maxwell

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Leadership expert, bestselling author and coach, John Maxwell, dropped a ton of wisdom everyone at Leadership Summit this year and he was as quotable as ever. Here are my notes and take-aways.

  • Leaders add value to people
  • All communicators connect on common ground with their audience
  • Have you ever been suspicions of a leader?
  • Have you ever had a leader hurt you?
  • When you’re a leader you have the opportunity to bless people or curse them, help the rise or fall.
  • Before you can lead a person you have to find them
  • Every day intentionally add value to people
  • There is a thin line in leadership in motivating people and manipulating people
  • 3 Questions that Followers ask Leaders (will you add value to my life?)
    1. Do you like me? (compassion)
    2. Can you help me? (competence)
    3. Can I trust you? (character)
  • Everything worth while is uphill
  • People have uphill hopes and downhill habits
  • No one ever talks about accidental achievement
  • Significance and selfishness are incompatible
  • Most people don’t lead their lives, they accept their lives
  • 5 Things to Daily Add Value to People
    1. Every day value people because Jesus values people
    2. Every day I think of ways to add value to people (intentional living is up front thinking – who am I going to see today and how can I value to them?)
    3. Every day I look for ways to add value to people
    4. Every day I add value to others (did I add value to others today?)
    5. Every day encourage others to add value to people
  • Are we going to spend our lives connecting with people or correcting them?
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Leadership Summit 2016: Chris McChesney

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Chris McChesney, Bestselling Author and Executive at Franklin Covey, gave one of my favorite presentations at the Summit this year. The ability to lead teams and organizations to execute sets great leaders apart from good leaders.

The 4 Disciplines of Execution

  • What do leaders struggle with more: strategy or execution?
  • What are leaders educated in more: strategy or execution?
  • The most difficult thing a leader will ever do is to drive a strategy that requires a change in human behavior.
  • We tend to blame the people on our team instead of look at ourselves.
  • Any time the majority of the people behave a particular way the majority of the time the problem is not the people it’s the system, culture, and leader.
  • We don’t get to blame the people.

#1 Focus: on the wildly important

  • With too many goals people might love you but they can’t hear you
  • “There will always be more good ideas than there is capacity to execute”
  • What makes a wildly important goal is the treatment in which you give it.
  • What are the fewest battles necessary to win the war? When you’re tackling something big, don’t go big go narrow.
  • Maintain normal operations and blow the door off of one thing. 1 Goal per team at the same time.
  • People have to have their say but they don’t have to have their way.
  • Deadlines move from concepts to targets.
  • Execution doesn’t like complexity.
  • Simplicity and transparency are the two best friends of execution.

#2 Leverage: Act on the lead Measure

  • Lag measures what happened
  • Lead measures predict the future and are influencable by the team
  • There is a rare difference between knowing a thing and knowing the data behind a thing.
  • Bad news: data is hard to get
  • Good news: people will be engaged
  • Bad news: they’re going to forget about it in 3 days

#3 Engagement: Keep a Compelling Scoreboard

  • People play differently when they are keeping score
  • We’re looking for a players scoreboard not a coaches scoreboard
  • The number 1 driver of morale and engagement is whether people feel like they are winning or not
  • Do the people who work for me feel like they are playing a winnable game?

#4 Accountability: Create a Cadence of Accountability

  • Execution is so frustrating because in the moment the urgent always trumps what’s important
  • Report on last week’s commitment
  • Review and update scoreboard
  • Make a a commitment for next week
  • Secret: let people come up with their own commitments for the next week
  • Great execution is about creating a pull, not pushing action.
  • Create a winnable game and let the players go win the game
  • Do the people who work for me feel like they are playing a winnable high stakes game?
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