Kingfisher leadership news august 2017

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Kingfisher Leadership

1st August 2017

Kingfisher Leadership news You are responsible before God, not just for knowing what they are, but for developing them to their maximum potential. Are you challenging yourself to develop your gifts to the best of your

Seven suggestions to help us stay motivated

Staying motivated in ministry

As leaders we are constantly looking at how we can motivate those we are leading to serve, to grow, to give, to What is it you want to accomplish as a ‘get it’. However, the truth about motivation and leader in your area of leadership is that our goal should not so much ministry? Writing it down clarifies it for you and Motivation is be to find new ways of motivating other provides a bench mark people as finding fresh ways of motivating contagious against which you can ourselves. Motivation is contagious. If we are measure progress. For motivated, others will be motivated too. to motivate most of us, what conversely, if we lack motivation and are just demotivates us the most others we going through the motions, then no amount of is that vague feeling of saying the right things and casting vision will need to first being out of control, of actually motivate others. We cannot give what letting things slip of all make between our fingers and we have not got, and if we have not got not achieving what we motivation, we will not be able to effectively sure we need to achieve. Writing motivate other people. Leaders need to tend it down clarifies it. So, ourselves are their own soul before they can effectively tend how clear are your the souls of others, as we were seeing in last motivated ministry goals? month’s edition of Kingfisher Leadership News. Our goal as leaders in this regard is Decide where you’re going to start summed up as follows: Spell out your plans on paper

There’s a lot of truth in Lao Tzu’s statement, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step”. The fact is, leaders face big challenges, and it’s easy to be overwhelmed by them. We need to decide where we’re going to start.

Establish check points It’s so demotivating to just have a distant goal in mind, like in dieting… you need steps along the way.

“Always give yourself fully to the work of the Lord because you know that your labour is not in vain.” (1 Corinthians 15:58) The key word for leaders in this verse is: FULLY. The Good News translation translates the second half of this verse as: “…since you know that nothing you do in the Lord’s service is ever without value.” 1


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