Do you have a boring senior leadership team? A team with no life, passion or energy? If not, here are seven action steps that will help you form a team that no one will ever want to be on:
- Make sure that everyone on the senior leadership team is the same age and in the same stage of life.
- Ensure that every leadership meeting is geared toward disseminating information and tasks.
- Never, ever change your senior leadership team.
- Don’t waste time doing outside activities with your team (fantasy football, white water rafting, bowling, retreats, etc.)
- Never give your team goals that may force them to think outside of the box.
- Make sure that you never listen to your senior leadership team’s ideas and input.
- Never stop to celebrate the “wins” of your senior leadership team.
If you want to create a contagious environment that’s attractive to people outside your church, you need to build a team of fun, positive people. This optimistic, high-energy attitude will eventually trickle down to your entire church. Are you ready to build a culture like this? In his book, Cracking Your Church’s Cultural Code, Sam Chand says,
To create a new culture, you have to destroy the old one. Half measures won’t do. If we try to erase our way into a new culture with as little pain as possible, we’ll probably fail to make the necessary adjustments and any change we make will be incomplete or nonexistent.
Your attitude is your decision, and as a leader, the attitudes of those on your team are also your decision. In other words, your team will only be as energetic and fun as you are. Now is the time to make sure that you are developing an effective and enthusiastic group of people who are excited to be on the senior leadership team.
