King sher Leadership
1st March 2022
Kingfisher Leadership news Important points along the journey:
Leadership: The Journey ‘Leadership is a journey, not a destination. It is a
As you lead others along the marathon, not a sprint. It is a process, not an journey, don’t forget your own, outcome.’ (John Donahoe, President of eBay) personal journey If you can’t lead yourself, you can’t This quote highlights a common mistake that leaders lead others. You are either going to make: although we encourage people to have vision, grow as a disciple and as a leader, to dream of the ‘what if?’ rather than just settle for the or you are going to stagnate. You are ‘what is’, we often fail to pay sufficient not going to stand attention to the journey between the ‘what is’ still . The LEADERSHIP IS and the ‘what if?’. There is always a journey journey you are leading others on A JOURNEY, between those two reference points. That will only be as journey is: NOT A successful as the •the desert that the Israelites had to cross DESTINATION. journey you are •the wall that they had to rebuild around IF WE DO NOT leading yourself on. Jerusalem
PAY ATTENTION TO THE JOURNEY, WE WILL NEVER REACH THE DESTINATION
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Recognise the important balance of big picture vision and small wins If all that is focussed on is the end result, then people are going to get disheartened pretty early on. The end will seem no nearer than when you first saw it for a long time! The journey is made up of a whole series of ‘small wins’ - community growth, faith steps, discipleship maturity as the result of setbacks, and so on. Celebrate the wins and see them for what they are: vital steps along the journey.
•the sacrifices they had to make when heeding Ezra’s challenge to return to the Promised Land The journey is such an important part of the leadership role; in fact, God places the journey in front of us because it is that journey - often through desert, in the face of great opposition, with the temptation to give up or compromise always before us - that we are made ready to move into the ‘what if?’ (For further insight into this, why not read the book: ‘The Journey’, available at: resources.kingfisher.org.uk) Leaders overlook the importance of the journey at their peril. They need not only to cast vision for what the ‘promised land’ looks like, they also need to cast vision for what the journey along the way looks like. Without attention being paid to the journey, the people the leader is pointing towards the ‘promised land’ will grow weary and disillusioned; the vision of ‘what if?’ be supplemented by the encouragement that the ‘what 1