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Energizing Leadership
Teams
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Welcome!!!
Imagine…if
you could do
ANYTHING in your
ministry with NO
LIMITS what would
you do?
Dream…
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For NOTHING
will be impossible
with God.
(Luke 1:37 ESV)
Do you live like you
believe that
NOTHING is impossible
with God?
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DISCUSS:
Divide into groups and discuss
your dreams for ministry.
This is not a time to analyze
or critique – just DREAM.
SHARE:
Share one dream from your
discussion group with the
big group.
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Today we will explore
one very important
element of realizing
your dreams for
ministry…
TEAMS
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What is your
experience with
teams you are
working with or that
you have worked
with?
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“I am blessed by my
team, we bring out
the best in each
other!”
Together Everyone Accomplishes More
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“With
team members
like this, who needs
enemies?”
Tiring Emotional And Messy
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We chose the title
Energizing Leadership
Teams partly because of
its double meaning. As
leaders we seek to bring
energy to our teams and
we also need to be
energized by the teams we
serve in order to continue
in vibrant and dynamic
ministry for the “long haul.”
Why do we need teams?
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other Christ followers
enables us to live out
Christ’s command to love
one another
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"A new command I give you: Love
one another. As I have loved you, so
you must love one another. 35 By this
everyone will know that you are my
disciples, if you love one another."
John 13:33-35 (TNIV)
Are your teams a
POSITIVE witness
for Christ?
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Teams are biblical
Christ and the disciples
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"Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I
will send you out to fish for people." 20 At
once they left their nets and followed
him. Matt 4:19-20 (TNIV)
1 Jesus called his twelve disciples to him
and gave them authority to drive out evil
spirits and to heal every disease and
sickness. Matt 10:1 (TNIV)
The disciples are an example of a
team with diverse work styles. Jesus
was the disciples’ teacher and he
also, ate, prayed, traveled and
transformed lives with them. This is
an example of an amazing team!
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Where there is a team,
conflict will happen
Christ and the disciples
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Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard,
an expensive perfume; she poured it on
Jesus' feet and wiped his feet with her
hair. And the house was filled with the
fragrance of the perfume.
4 But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot,
who was later to betray him, objected, 5
"Why wasn't this perfume sold and the
money given to the poor? It was worth a
year's wages. John 12:3-5 (TNIV)
Even Christ’s amazing team had conflicts.
In this example the conflict is about
money. We know that Christ’s team of
disciples had other conflicts too.
Ultimately some of Christ’s team
members even betrayed him.
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Where there is a team,
conflict will happen
Turn unhealthy conflict into
healthy conflict:
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Clarify! Clarify! Clarify!
Go to the source.
Direct communications preferably the
same day, but within no more than 1
week.
Bring in a third person who is neutral
to the conflict (Matt. 18:15-20)
Treat one another with love and
forgiveness.
PRAY together and give it to the
Lord!
* Taken from “Training for Connecting
Women” leadership training.
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The element of
energizing teams that
we will focus on today
is actively seeking
harmony by identifying
and affirming your
team members
different work styles
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What can I do to energize
my leadership team?
Understand and affirm
your unique work style.
1.
Encourage your team
members to understand
and affirm their unique
work styles.
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Openly and honestly
discuss the work styles
represented by your team
members and proactively
plan for ways to work in
harmony and reduce
conflict.
3.
LEADERSHIP
COMPASS
North
Action
West
East
Analysis
Vision
South
Empathy
LEADERSHIP
Good leaders create a vision,
articulate the vision, passionately
own the vision, and relentlessly
drive it to completion.
- Jack Welch
I can't change the direction of the
wind, but I can adjust my sails to
always reach my destination.
- James Dean
I suppose leadership at one time
meant muscles; but today it
means getting along with people.
– Mahatma Ghandi
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GOALS
By the end of of our time
together you should gain:
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A deeper appreciation for your own and
others’ work styles
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An understanding of the need for a
variety of work styles
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A new vocabulary and way of thinking
about working with teams
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Time to reflect on your own work style
and time to identify areas for personal
growth
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A healthy perspective that you can
apply to energize teams you contribute
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NORTH - ACTION
Approaches to Work / Work Style:
 Assertive, active, decisive
 Likes to determine course of events and be in
control of professional relationship
 Quick to act, expresses sense of urgency for
others to act now
 Enjoys challenges presented by difficult
situations and people
 Comfortable being in front
 Value words: “Do it now!”; “I’ll do it!”; “What’s
the bottom line?”
NORTH - ACTION
Style taken to Excess:
Can easily overlook process and
comprehensive strategic planning when driven
by need to act and decide
Can get defensive quickly, argue, try to “out
expert” others
 Can lose patience; pushes for decisions before
it’s time; avoids discussion
Can be autocratic, want things their way, has
difficulty being a team member
Sees things in terms of black and white; little
tolerance for ambiguity
May go beyond limits, get impulsive and
disregard practical issues
Not heedful of other’s feelings; may be
perceived as cold
Has trouble relinquishing control - finds it hard
to delegate; “If you want something done right,
do it yourself!”
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NORTH - ACTION
Tips for Working With a North:
Notes / Scenario at Work:
SOUTH – EMPATHY
Approaches to Work / Work Style:
 Understands
how people need to receive
information in order to act on it
 Is
value driven regarding aspects of
professional life
 Uses
professional relationships to
accomplish tasks; interaction is primary
 Feeling-based; trusts
own emotions and
intuition; intuition regarded as “truth”
 Is
receptive to others’ ideas; team player;
builds on ideas of others, noncompetitive
 Value Words: “right” and “fair”
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Style Taken to Excess:
 Can
lose focus on goals when
believes relationship, needs of
people are being compromised
 Has trouble saying “no” to requests
 Internalizes difficulty and assumes
blame
 Is prone to disappointment when
relationship is seen as secondary to
task
 Has difficulty confronting, dealing
with anger; may be manipulated by
anger
 Can over-compromise to avoid
conflict
 Can be immersed in the present;
loses track of time; may not see longrange view
 Can become mired in the process at
the expense of accomplishing goals
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SOUTH - EMPATHY
Tips for Working With a South:
Notes / Scenario at Work:
EAST - VISION
Approaches to Work / Work Style:
 Visionary; sees
the big picture
 Generative
and creative thinker; is able to
think outside the box
 Very
idea oriented; focuses on future
thought
 Makes
decisions by standing in the future
 Demonstrates
purpose
 Adept
 Likes
insight into mission and
at solving problems
to experiment, explore
 Appreciates
a lot of information
 Value Words: “option, possibility,
imagine”
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EAST - VISION
Style Taken to Excess:
 Can
put too much emphasis on vision
at the expense of action
 Can
lose focus on tasks
 Demonstrates
poor follow-through on
projects; can develop a reputation for
lack of dependability and attention to
detail
 Not
time-bound, may lose track of
time
 Tends
to be highly enthusiastic early
on, then burn out over the long haul
 Will
not work on projects that do not
have a comprehensive vision
 Easily
frustrated and overwhelmed
when outcomes are not in line with
the vision
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EAST - VISION
Tips for Working With an East:
Notes / Scenario at Work:
WEST - ANALYSIS
Approaches to Work / Work Style:
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Is helpful to others by providing planning and
resources; comes through for the team
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Uses data analysis and logic to make decisions
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Weighs all sides of an issue; is balanced
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Introspective, self-analytical
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Carefully & thoroughly examines people’s needs in
situations
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Maximizes existing resources – gets the most out of
what has been done in the past
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Value Word: “objective”
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WEST - ANALYSIS
Style Taken to Excess:
 Can
be bogged down by information
analysis process at expense of
moving forward
 Can
become stubborn and
entrenched in position
 Can
be indecisive, collect
unnecessary data, mired in details;
“analysis paralysis”
 May
appear cold, withdrawn, with
respect to others’ working style
 Tendency
towards watchfulness,
observation
 Can
remain withdrawn, distant
 Resists
emotional pleas and change
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WEST - ANALYSIS
Tips for Working With a West:
Notes / Scenario at Work:
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PROCESS THIS
INFORMATION
What
is great about
operating in your dominant
work style? List reflections
in your notes.
What
is challenging about
operating in your dominant
work style? List reflections
in your notes.
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INSIGHT
Choose
at least three specific
things people who exhibit a
different dominant direction
can do to better work with you.
List them in your notes.
When
you take your dominant
direction to extremes, what do
you think people in other
directions are saying about
why you are difficult to work
with? List ideas in your notes.
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DEBRIEF
 What
have you learned?
 What
surprised you?
 How
are you going to use this information?
 How
can you apply this to your ministry?
 Is
having no leadership team or having
negative interactions with your leadership
team one factor that is hindering you from
realizing the dreams for ministry God has
placed on your heart?
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ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND
RESOURCES
“Turn unhealthy conflict into healthy conflict” slide is available as part
of “Training for Connecting Women” Leadership Training. Contact a
Ministry Coach near you to arrange the training. Contact the WM
office (listed below) to find a coach near you.
These materials have been developed by the Department of Women
Ministries of the Evangelical Covenant Church. Permission is granted
for the reproduction and distribution of these materials for study use
by a congregation. Reproduction or utilization of this material for other
use or sale is prohibited.
Department of Women Ministries
Evangelical Covenant Church
8303 W. Higgins Road
Chicago, IL 60631
PHONE 773.907.3332 FAX 773.784.4366
email: wmc@covchurch.org
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