King sher Leadership
1st January 2022
Kingfisher Leadership news Focussed Leadership
Nine tips to becoming a focussed leader: 1 - Communicate your mission as often as you can 2 - guard the culture...don’t let things slide that are contrary to the culture that you are seeking to build. 3 - give constructive and useful feedback. Appreciate people; nd ways to appropriately build them up; o er clear and consistent ways for people to correct mistakes or wrong attitudes 4 - Remember, they work with you not for you. We are a team, we move forward together. Communicate this and practice it regularly 5 - take responsibility for mistakes. The true mark of a leader is admitting failure. When we admit, ‘I got it wrong' and seek ways to put things right, we nd that respect from others grows. 6 - stretch your comfort zone. Always look for the next step. Never settle for what you already do.
There are so many distractions in leadership - endless tasks that need to be done to keep ‘the show on the road’. Successful leadership is not measured by how busy we are or how many tasks can be accomplished, but rather by how focussed we are in our leadership. Focus is what separates e ective leaders from just busy leaders. Focus is what every leader needs to develop - just as Paul did. He was particularly focussed in all of his leadership activity. For example:
“For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying Always for you. We continually ask God to ll have a clear you with the knowledge of his will through all wisdom and understanding focus on the that the Spirit gives, so that you may live worthy of the Lord and please him ‘so that’ of ainlife every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, what you being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that are doing you may have great endurance and patience, and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has quali ed you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light.” (Colossians 1:9-12)
7 - Act rather than react. Think before you speak. Thinking before acting is wisdom, whereas acting before thinking is regret.
Paul, the focussed leader: Paul was very explicit about his purpose: he was ‘exhorting, encouraging and imploring each one of them, as a father would his own children, so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.” (1 Thessalonians 2:11-12) Paul was e ective because of just two words: so that. Those two words in Greek are just one word: Hina.
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