If I want my influence to help my community be a better place to live, I must first become a better leader.
Culture doesn’t hold steady or remain the same; therefore, the level of our leadership cannot remain the same.
I can’t remember a time when circumstances changed so fast, and the future remained so uncertain. The only way to remain effective is to stay on your toes, pay attention, and keep growing.
That’s true for all of us.
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The number one question and conversation I’ve been engaged in with leaders across the country is literally, “How do we lead in times like these?”
There are far more questions than answers.
Leadership principles remain true and clear, but context and culture are moving rapidly and are blurred at best.
The good news is that great passion runs deep in leaders. We want to make a difference.
There is a great emphasis today on saying the right words in the right way.
That is a good, noble, and right thing. It’s incredibly important.
But as I think, pray and talk with leaders, I wonder if that isn’t rivaled with the idea of doing the right things at the right time.
There is an old saying, “Actions speak louder than words.”
You and I know both words and actions are important.
As leaders, how do we blend the right combination of saying the right words in the right way and doing the right things at the right time to solve real problems?
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You are leading in a time when tension, complexity, and uncertainty seem to lead the way.
It’s difficult to get in front and lead when circumstances and culture change so rapidly. Yet, leadership is our responsibility, and now more than ever.
Plus, the problems you faced before more recent events and cultural impacts.
With all this, as leaders, it’s up to us to bring hope, seize opportunities, and point the way.
No small task, right?
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I’ve been a runner for decades, well, more like a jogger. I don’t run far, I don’t run fast, and I don’t run pretty, but it’s 3.1 miles every day.
One thing I’ve learned is that I don’t run well on an unstable surface.
Jogging in beach sand, rocky surfaces, or a potholed grass field doesn’t work for me. It destabilizes my footing, and I feel off-balance the whole time.
It makes me run in a tentative way.
In this COVID season, the same thing happens in leadership.
The sustained disruption in so much of the life and ministry of a local church has many leaders off-balance, and we can end up leading tentatively.
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Dan Reiland is the Executive Pastor at 12Stone Church in Lawrenceville, Georgia. He previously partnered with John Maxwell for 20 years, first as Executive Pastor at Skyline Wesleyan Church in San Diego, then as Vice President of Leadership and Church Development at INJOY.
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