Advancing Your Leadership Team to the Next Level - Christian Business Round Table

Kalamazoo Round Table (Thursday)

Turning existing leaders into better leaders
Anyone can lead, but in what direction are they taking your people?
Choosing leaders based on convenience is dangerous for an organization
Organizations “count people out” if they don’t want to lead, but you cannot have an organization full of people who only want to lead. Everyone plays a role
Look for coachable & teachable people to be leaders
Money motivates people to get into leadership even if they aren’t leadership material or don’t want to lead
Organizations aren’t spending enough on recruiting and training
A CEO needs to build the team – not act as director of marketing, finance, business development, sales person, etc.
Above all, leaders have to care about people
Look for qualities of leaders, not doers
Training needs to be intense
Give “bite chunks” and reinforce over and over again
Don’t try to make someone something they aren’t
Top needs to pull leaders up, not people just moving themselves up through the management chain.
Someone should be on staff to seek out leaders – good for sustaining future
Solid processes make leadership easier
Why does a potential candidate want to work with you? If they can’t answer, you can’t recruit them
Live up to what God wants you to be, not what the world says you should be. Don’t push against God’s design
Look at Simon Sinek’s Why Circles

Marshall Round Table

Hire based on both heart and aptitude.
Never waiver from the mission and vision. Use a focus on the mission and vision to coach, mentor, set the strategy, determine the tasks, and referee disagreements. Focusing on the mission and vision keeps a leader from getting distracted by the angst and tension of the moment.
When setting up opportunities for critical experiences, start with easier experiences (sending them out only to the Jews, and telling them to stay only with those who welcomed them), and then move to the harder experiences.
Pray for your leadership team regularly.
Focus on the long-term goal; don’t be distracted by the short-term turmoil.
Jesus’ leadership team wasn’t much of a team, and they weren’t very good leaders, when they came together. It takes patience to create a solid team and bring them to a higher level.

Kalamazoo Round Table (Friday)