Leadership Principles from God’s Word:
CRITICISM Mario Denton Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
Overall purpose of this series on Leadership Principles To provide concepts and tools for effective leadership and management so that you can: • Be more anointed in your workplace. • Use these material to facilitate the work of evangelism. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
Objectives • 1. Participants will learn the ten steps of handling criticism. • 2. Participants will evaluate their lives and make appropriate changes re the way they giving and receiving criticism. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
Passage to memorize Psalm 86: 9-12 Teach me your way O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name. I will praise you o Lord my God with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
Leaders can bank on that they will be criticized Attack the issues not the person.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
What God and Moses teach us on how to handle criticism Numbers 12: 3-14
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Maintain your humility Face the criticism squarely Be specific about the issue Lay out consequences Pray for the criticizers Restore them when appropriate Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
Ten ways of handling criticism
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
Ten ways of handling criticism 1. Understand the difference between constructive and destructive criticism (Who benefits?). Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
Ten ways of handling criticism 2. Don’t take yourself too seriously (but take God very seriously).
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
Ten ways of handling criticism 3. Look beyond the criticism to see the critic (Do you respect him/her? What is his/her need?
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
Ten ways of handling criticism 4. Guard your own attitude toward the critic. Don’t get defensive; stay objective).
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
"Hold a picture of yourself long enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it." Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
Ten ways of handling criticism 5. Recognize that good people get criticized (Don’t beat yourself up).
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
Ten ways of handling criticism 6. Keep yourself physically and spiritually in shape (weariness distorts our perspective).
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
Ten ways of handling criticism 7. Don’t see only the critic; see the crowd. (Is the criticism widespread?).
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
Ten ways of handling criticism 8. Wait for time to prove the critic wrong (Be mature enough to be patient).
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
Ten ways of handling criticism 9. Associate with people of faith (Spend your optimal time with optimists).
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." - William James
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
Ten ways of handling criticism 10. Concentrate on your mission; change your mistakes (Focus on the big picture).
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
Believe - Joy and Love •
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worthy, I deserve the best and receive it. I image that which is positive and loving. I am at peace with myself and those I meet. Life presents me with the very best. Every day I am becoming more and more confident. I am capably, I always find a solution. I now believe in myself. Life truly is a wondrous adventure. I am worthy of the best life has to offer. I expect the best. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
Prayer Focus • Father, In the name of Jesus, I surrender myself to walk in the Word. Your word living in me produces the Life in this world. • The word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. It makes my way plain before me. • I boldly and confidently say that my heart is fixed and established on the solid foundation – the Living Word of God! Amen Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
Come bless the Lord (Echo) All you servants of the Lord (Echo) Who stand by night (Echo) In the house of the Lord (Echo) Lift up our hands in the Holy Place And bless the Lord, And Bless the Lord. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
Learning, application and commitment: James 1: 22-25 • “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. • Do what it says. • Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in the mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. • But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does.” (NIV) Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
Learning, application and commitment • One of the Biblical truths (principles) that I have learned from this lesson was … • I intend to apply this truth (principle) in my business/Ministry by: ….. • With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately. I ask and expect my group to hold me accountable for this and to check with me periodically to determine if I am doing so. Please ask me ….. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Criticism