Every Tuesday @ 7:30am I have a Leadership Team meeting with around 8-10 church staff members/crucial volunteers. This meeting is supremely important to me. It’s a time when all of us can come together and focus on the important issues going on in the church and challenge ourselves to be organized and working on the same page as a team. We play a lot of roles with this meeting, but one of the biggest roles it plays for me is a huge challenge to my personal growth as a leader, and my personal growth as a man.

This morning’s meeting was especially helpful to me as we took our team through an exercise where we agreed to write down one positive thing (something that we love), and one negative thing (something we’d like to see them working on) about each member of our team. We decided to do this as we have identified some of the areas we have some dysfunction going on within our group. After writing these for each person, we shared them with everyone.

It. Was. Phenomenal.

Being able to speak those things out to people in a constructive way was difficult, but necessary. On the opposite end, it was so helpful to hear the things that I bring to the team and the areas of improvement. Some of them were obvious and some of them caught us completely off guard.

Personally, it was confirmed that I:

* Take on too much
* Don’t know how to say no as well as I thought I did
* Don’t delegate enough
* Hold back on speaking my mind in certain situations
* Don’t trust myself fully enough, when I should

And lots of good things about myself.

How helpful this was! Things that I knew deep down, but came to a head as multiple people spoke them to me…face to face. Think of what this could do at your work! Imagine what this could do in your family!

Try it!