Christian Leadership needs effective team leadership

" No individual even a monarch- like CEO, is ever able to develop the right vision, communicate it to large numbers of people, eliminate all key obstacles, generate short term wins, lead and manage dozens of change projects and anchor new approaches deep in the organisations culture."[1]

In other words major visionary change cannot be accomplished by one person alone no matter how large or successful their churches and leadership styles may be.

In order to see changes take place in a church and these changes take root, - the way you see those taking root, there is a need therefore for the creation of an effective team.

Jagelman makes the following observation;

"I have realised that inflexible structures that are legally or traditionally difficult to change hinder rather than protect the work of God....The absence of a stable and well thought through structure does not create freedom, it creates chaos. Such structure does not liberate the leadership of a church to get on with the job, but rather endangers both the leadership of the church and the church itself"[2]

Strategy and good effective teamwork is needed from a broad based team. What do I mean by this? Without a plan the church perishes likewise without a strong multi talented team the church perishes. At the same time, that team needs to have a broad base of skill sets and personality types; it can't just be made up of people just like the senior pastor. The senior leader needs to be strong and experienced enough to choose people for his team that have an opinion that may differ to his or her own. And have the strength of conviction to influence and carry them with them.

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[1] John P. Kotter Leading Change Harvard Business Review Press Boston 2012 page 53

[2] Dr Ian Jagelman Re-engineering the church, Openbooks Australia 2007 page5

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