Creating Thriving Organizational Cultures
Leaders can harm or heal.
Whether you’re a pastor, parent, coach, or CEO, creating organizational cultures where people thrive, rather than simply survive, is our calling.
Here are four ways to create a thriving organizational culture:
1. Have a compelling, clear, and challenging vision. God has deposited within the human spirit a passion to live and do things that are bigger than them, and that will outlive them. The echoes of eternity are tattooed on our hearts.
Question: Does the vision statement for your family, team, or business cause people in your organization to wake up excited about making the vision a life-transforming reality?
And with every great vision, the people who carry out the vision are then themselves TRANSFORMED by it.
Question: Does the vision statement for your family, team, or business cause people in your organization to wake up excited about making the vision a life-transforming reality?
And with every great vision, the people who carry out the vision are then themselves TRANSFORMED by it.
2. As it pertains to people, follow the advice of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” Encourage people to fulfill their potential.
3. Resource your team with what they need to accomplish what you’re asking them to accomplish, and give them the responsibility to do it.
Nothing communicates “I trust you” like giving someone responsibility. Give people the opportunity to fail. And in the midst of some failures, true innovation and genius will emerge.
4. Leader, only when you’re emotionally healthy can you create an organization where people thrive, because you’re thriving on the inside. The glue that mends and heals our wounded hearts–making them healthy–is God’s grace.
Marinate on that,
Pastor Derwin
“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” Encourage people to fulfill their potential.
3. Resource your team with what they need to accomplish what you’re asking them to accomplish, and give them the responsibility to do it.
Nothing communicates “I trust you” like giving someone responsibility. Give people the opportunity to fail. And in the midst of some failures, true innovation and genius will emerge.
4. Leader, only when you’re emotionally healthy can you create an organization where people thrive, because you’re thriving on the inside. The glue that mends and heals our wounded hearts–making them healthy–is God’s grace.
Marinate on that,
Pastor Derwin
Derwin L. Gray is the founding and Lead Pastor of Transformation Church (www.tc521.org), a multi-ethnic, multi-generational, mission-shaped community in Indian Land, South Carolina, just south of Charlotte, North Carolina. Transformation Church was recently recognized as one of the 15 fastest growing churches in America for 2010 by Outreach Magazine. Gray is the author of Hero: Unleashing God’s Power in a Man’s Heart and is a highly sought-after communicator. Connect with Derwin on twitter @Derwinlgray or through his blog at www.derwinlgray.com
More from Derwin Gray or visit Derwin at www.derwinlgray.com/
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