CREATING EMPOWERMENT

HOW ARE YOU AT DELEGATING?

Giving leadership away (for title)

If you don’t let other people lead, you become the ceiling of your team

FACT 1: If you don’t let other people lead, you are the ceiling of your team

FACT 1: If you don’t let other people lead, you are the ceiling of your team

The key to success is to identify, develop, and empower the right people

FACT 2: Most leaders are trying to discover the right program, but the best leaders are trying to empower the right people

FACT 2: Most leaders are trying to discover the right program, but the best leaders are trying to empower the right people

FACT 3: If you empower the right people, there is no limit to your team or organization

FACT 3: If you empower the right people, there is no limit to your team or organization

FACT 4: You can have growth or you can have control, but you can’t have both

FACT 4: You can have growth or you can have control, but you can’t have both

You can have growth or you can have control, but you can’t have both

Mark 6:7 NLT

And he called his twelve disciples together and began sending them out two by two, giving them authority to cast out evil spirits.

Mark 6:7 NLT

And he called his twelve disciples together and began sending them out two by two, giving them authority to cast out evil spirits.

HOW TO EMPOWER LEADERS

HOW TO EMPOWER LEADERS

1. Communicate Clearly

Tell your team WHAT you want them to do

PROBLEM: Lack of clarity produces work without direction

PROBLEM: Lack of clarity produces work without direction

SOLUTION: Set goals that align with your mission

SOLUTION: Set goals that align with your mission

EXAMPLE: Being an intern

EXAMPLE: Being an intern

2. Extend Trust

2. Extend Trust

Allow your team to figure out HOW to do it

Allow your team to figure out HOW to do it

PROBLEM: Clarity without trust produces fear and inaction

SOLUTION: Take a risk trusting someone

SOLUTION: Take a risk trusting someone

QUESTION: How do I get better at trusting someone?

ANSWER: By trusting someone

EXAMPLE: Creating a welcome ministry

3. Guard Values

3. Guard Values

What you and your team VALUE determines what you will DO

What you and your team VALUE determines what you will DO

PROBLEM: Someone makes a mistake

PROBLEM: Someone makes a mistake

SOLUTION: Encourage people to take aggressive risks within the culture

SOLUTION: Encourage people to take aggressive risks within the culture

EXAMPLE: Starting a Sunday night Service

EXAMPLE: Starting a Sunday night Service

4. Surrender Control

4. Surrender Control

If you don’t trust your team, either you have the wrong people or you are the wrong leader

If you don’t trust your team, either you have the wrong people or you are the wrong leader

PROBLEM: No one can do it better than me

PROBLEM: No one can do it better than me

SOLUTION: Empowering the right people will lead to better results

SOLUTION: Empowering the right people will lead to better results

EXAMPLE: Leading a team for the first time

EXAMPLE: Leading a team for the first time

APPLICATION

APPLICATION

#1: Don’t assign tasks, delegate authority

#1: Don’t assign tasks, delegate authority

Don’t assign tasks, delegate authority

#2: Do whatever you can do, and give away the rest

#3: Push decision-making deep into the organization

#3: Push decision-making deep into the organization

#4: You make the decisions only you can make, and delegate the rest

Tasks create followers, authority creates leaders

#4: Make the decisions only you can make, and delegate the rest

#5: Learn to say, “YOU DECIDE”

#5: Learn to say, “YOU DECIDE”

ASSIGNMENT

ASSIGNMENT

Delegate three things this week

Delegate three things this week

Write down the things only you can do