As a leader, here are three things you shouldn\u2019t do: <\/p>\n
(1) You shouldn\u2019t be afraid to try something new.<\/i> (See\u00a0Isaiah\u00a043:19). When you put someone into a new role, they will make mistakes; it\u2019s inevitable, but it\u2019s how they learn. While locking them into the same routine takes the wind out of their sails, being a leader means risking their failures and biting your lip as you let them toddle out into the unknown. Like a parent who prays harder when their teen takes the family car out for their first drive, you must accept that the challenges which frighten you are actually liberating to others. <\/p>\n
(2) You shouldn\u2019t confuse individual loyalty with team building<\/i> (see 1\u00a0Corinthians\u00a03:9). It\u2019s good to work closely with key individuals, but it\u2019s also important to stay \u2018connected to each other.\u2019<\/i> (Romans\u00a012:5\u00a0GWT) You must make sure that everybody gets to be on the team, feels valued, and learns how to interact with one another. <\/p>\n
(3) You shouldn\u2019t try to micromanage people.<\/i> (See 2\u00a0Corinthians\u00a07:16\u00a0GWT). There is a difference between managing people and leading them. Managing people requires an eye for detail, whereas leading them involves vision sharing, goal setting, and motivating. And you must know the difference. When you micromanage rather than lead, morale plummets, because people need clear objectives and the freedom to figure out how to reach them. Don\u2019t micromanage; it diminishes the sense of ownership those under you and around you need for good team dynamics and problem-solving.<\/p>\n
Former Prime Minister John Howard used to joke that he encountered a lot of people who would say to him, \u2018I can\u2019t stand you, but at least I know what you stand for\u2019. In his opinion, that was the single most important commodity in a leader. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As a leader, here are three things you shouldn\u2019t do: (1) You shouldn\u2019t be afraid to try something new. (See\u00a0Isaiah\u00a043:19). When you put someone into a new role, they will make mistakes; it\u2019s inevitable, but it\u2019s how they learn. While locking them into the same routine takes the wind out of their sails, being a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}