The Leadership Summit - Day 2
Today was the second day of the Leadership Summit and once again we got to hear some very inspirational speakers talk about leadership.
From the two days, here’s a summary of the nuggets of wisdom that I took away from it.
-Thank everyone that helps you make good decisions, blame yourself for bad decisions.
-Promote a clash of ideas as opposed to looking for people to agree with YOUR idea.
-Reward best performers and get rid of low performers with no excuses. Low performers can eat tremendous amounts of time and energy that bring everything around them down.
-Vision leaks like a bucket with holes in it and staff and support people need to have the vision renewed and filled up from time to time.
-Facts are your friends. When you have access to facts related to what you are doing, understand them and figure out how to use them to make a difference in your approach. If you don’t have facts, then figure out how to get facts.
-When something feels funky and wrong, engage it immediately and don’t let it fester.
-A good leader needs to call fouls. If someone says or does something that is inappropriate, it needs to be called out immediately. A good leader will occasionally need to call a foul on himself.
-Dream big and create a plan that seemingly can’t be achieved. Then figure out steps to move in that direction.
-Jesus came to make us brave and bold…not safe.
-We need to ask ourselves, in this land of darkness, why have WE been given so much and what are we supposed to do with those things.
-We need to ask ourselves “What am I doing to develop my gifts and use those gifts to serve others.”
-Leadership is responsibility. It’s not money, fame, and power, but rather empowering others to learn to lead.
-Follow your compass and not your clock. Make sure your life is going in the right direction but don’t worry about how long it takes you to get where you are going.
-Get feedback from your clients and people around you. It makes you vulnerable but you’ll learn where you are failing so you can make a change.
-Be true to your values even when life and business are tough.
-To have the IT factor, you need to have a laser focus and rather than trying to do EVERYTHING, you need to do a few things REALLY well. Pick the things that make the most difference and do them to the best you can.
-Figure out what you are doing that you need to STOP doing that take time and resources without providing benefit. Figure out the tasks that you are best at and most unique at and don’t do everything that everyone else does.
-Figure out what your greatest limitation is that you feel is holding you back from your goals and then think about what God might be trying to show you by keeping you in that situation.
-Failure is the first step into seeking a solution because it forces you to figure out what didn’t work and why.
-When you fail, shake it off, step up, and try again.
-To be successful, you need to see opportunities where others don’t and be willing to fail and try again as many times as necessary.
-For other people to see the IT factor in you, you have to have IT and express IT. If you don’t have the IT factor, then figure out what’s missing and what steps you need to take to get IT.
-As a leader, you need to LEAD, not give into what other people think is the best decision. You need to have advisors to advise you but YOU have to make the final decision and be accountable for it.
-46% of sales sessions end without the salesperson asking for anything. Ultimately the sales persons job is to ask for the sale because quite often people will commit when asked. This applies to fundraising, business, or even asking people to do volunteer work.
-More responsibility for employees leads to empowerment and better results.