Adam Fike
Thursday 4/9
“Some leaders learn to lead by making mistakes and then reflecting enough on those mistakes to develop principles for the future…another way is to learn the principles based on the mistakes of others.”
Learning from your mistakes is a skill that every leader must have. Leaders grow in their ability to learn from their mistakes with experience, but this skill must be honed and developed from the start. In the beginning of a leader’s career, the harvest is ready to glean an abundance of principles from an abundance of mistakes. Sometimes, too many mistakes can overwhelm a leader and cause them to become paralyzed in a way. For this reason, it is important that a leader keep from becoming overly concerned about learning a principle from every mistake. Some mistakes are going to be made more than once. It is most beneficial to learn from the mistakes of others. A leader should observe and study the mistakes of other leaders, especially in related fields, because there are too many mistakes to be made in one lifetime. This can be tricky and sometimes difficult though because the mistakes of others are less real. A leader believes in the principles of his or her mistakes because they actually happened in their life. Gleaning principles from the mistakes of others requires more work and a certain measure of faith. Nevertheless, it is imperative for a leader to reflect on mistakes looking for principles to prevent them in the future.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Thursday, The Learning Principle
Week 11
April 2nd, 2009
Kelly Jones
Winning with People
Book by Dr. John C. Maxwell
The Learning Principle
The Learning Principle states that we can learn something from every person that we come into contact with and every place we go. As Maxwell puts it, “Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something.” Yet, we can only learn depending on our attitude. If you go into situations with the mentality of a know-it-all, you will not learn a thing from another person or place. But if you go into situations with the belief that you learn from any person or situation, then you will. Maxwell says there are three types of attitudes:
Arrogant (no one can teach me anything), Naïve (someone can teach me everything), and Teachable (everyone can teach me something)
Maxwell states, “The only time people can’t us things is when we are unwilling to learn.”
So how do we go about learning from others? Maxwell provides five steps:
1.Make Learning Your Passion
2.Value People
3.Develop Relationships with Growth potential
4.Identify People’s Uniqueness and Strengths
5.Ask Questions
How this principle helps me learn how to work with others…
I am going to be working with people for the rest of my life. I am in the people business—ministering to souls. I admit that I do not know all there is to know about ministering to others. I do not know all there is to know about God and life. I guarantee that the majority of the people I minister to will be ministering to me. If I come into ministry with an arrogant attitude, not only will I learn nothing, but I will teach others nothing because they will not want to learn from me.
Apply the five steps…
Ministering to people requires having a passion and desire to learn from them. Ministering to people requires valuing them—knowing their worth and what they have to offer. Ministering to people requires the ability to identity their strengths and uniqueness. Ministering also requires me to develop relationships with people that have gone before me—that are experts in ministry. Ministering requires that I ask questions.
People want to be valued, understood, and encouraged—especially when you are working alongside of them. The Learning Principle helps one to just those things.
April 2nd, 2009
Kelly Jones
Winning with People
Book by Dr. John C. Maxwell
The Learning Principle
The Learning Principle states that we can learn something from every person that we come into contact with and every place we go. As Maxwell puts it, “Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something.” Yet, we can only learn depending on our attitude. If you go into situations with the mentality of a know-it-all, you will not learn a thing from another person or place. But if you go into situations with the belief that you learn from any person or situation, then you will. Maxwell says there are three types of attitudes:
Arrogant (no one can teach me anything), Naïve (someone can teach me everything), and Teachable (everyone can teach me something)
Maxwell states, “The only time people can’t us things is when we are unwilling to learn.”
So how do we go about learning from others? Maxwell provides five steps:
1.Make Learning Your Passion
2.Value People
3.Develop Relationships with Growth potential
4.Identify People’s Uniqueness and Strengths
5.Ask Questions
How this principle helps me learn how to work with others…
I am going to be working with people for the rest of my life. I am in the people business—ministering to souls. I admit that I do not know all there is to know about ministering to others. I do not know all there is to know about God and life. I guarantee that the majority of the people I minister to will be ministering to me. If I come into ministry with an arrogant attitude, not only will I learn nothing, but I will teach others nothing because they will not want to learn from me.
Apply the five steps…
Ministering to people requires having a passion and desire to learn from them. Ministering to people requires valuing them—knowing their worth and what they have to offer. Ministering to people requires the ability to identity their strengths and uniqueness. Ministering also requires me to develop relationships with people that have gone before me—that are experts in ministry. Ministering requires that I ask questions.
People want to be valued, understood, and encouraged—especially when you are working alongside of them. The Learning Principle helps one to just those things.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Randi Meyer
Tuesday 3/31/2009
Week 11 – Mistakes Ministers Make
Teresa – Grant United Methodist Church
Sunday, March 15, 2009
1. Don’t assume, but ask – Often pastors will assume how things in the past were done without asking people in the congregation. One should ask the people to learn the church’s ways.
2. Be on time and wise with time – Teresa stated that there is nothing more irritating than to have to wait for the person that is suppose to be leading them. A pastor needs to be early or at least on time for events and services, and they need to be considerate of the congregation’s time.
3. Don’t change the order of the service – A pastor should not change the order of the Sunday worship service right when they get there, but should learn how it was done in the past. They can slowly make changes, but they need to get the congregation involved in these changes.
Tuesday 3/31/2009
Week 11 – Mistakes Ministers Make
Teresa – Grant United Methodist Church
Sunday, March 15, 2009
1. Don’t assume, but ask – Often pastors will assume how things in the past were done without asking people in the congregation. One should ask the people to learn the church’s ways.
2. Be on time and wise with time – Teresa stated that there is nothing more irritating than to have to wait for the person that is suppose to be leading them. A pastor needs to be early or at least on time for events and services, and they need to be considerate of the congregation’s time.
3. Don’t change the order of the service – A pastor should not change the order of the Sunday worship service right when they get there, but should learn how it was done in the past. They can slowly make changes, but they need to get the congregation involved in these changes.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Week 11 – Mistakes Ministers Make
Adam Fike
Tuesday 3/31
Interviewed – Kelley Ailstock on March 19, 2009
Mistakes
1. Do not think that your way is the only way. Be willing to accept criticism and listen to other ways of doing things.
2. Do not be afraid to ask for help. To lay people, this is perceived as if you think they are not capable or able to accomplish things; it belittles volunteers.
3. Always have a safety net when counseling the opposite sex. The door always stays open, never counsel one-on-one, and do not have lunch/coffee dates with the opposite sex.
Tuesday 3/31
Interviewed – Kelley Ailstock on March 19, 2009
Mistakes
1. Do not think that your way is the only way. Be willing to accept criticism and listen to other ways of doing things.
2. Do not be afraid to ask for help. To lay people, this is perceived as if you think they are not capable or able to accomplish things; it belittles volunteers.
3. Always have a safety net when counseling the opposite sex. The door always stays open, never counsel one-on-one, and do not have lunch/coffee dates with the opposite sex.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Week 10
Week 10
March 26th, 2009
Kelly Jones
How a person learns to work with people. How can you learn how to better work with people.
All you need is love. Right? We work well with others out of love, even when we do not feel like loving them. As ministers, and as Christians, we are called to love as Christ loved. We are called to love not just those who love us back, but love our enemies. We are asked to love the unlovable. Who are the unlovable?—the annoying story-tellers that cannot take a hint to stop talking, the complainers who always have something to whine about, the compulsive apologizers that pity themselves for not doing anything right, the elusive personalities that you cannot seem to understand what they think about you….the list goes on and on. The thing is—we are called to love—but loving is a choice! We are not called to like these people, but we are called to love them.
What does that mean? What does that look like? LIKE THIS: loving others as you love yourself. You always want what is best for you, you are always putting your desires and wants first, and you are always finding ways to improve when you fall flat on your face. You want to be poured into, pruned, and made new. Loving others as you love yourself.
So how does this help me in working with people? It helps you to have patience, peace, and understanding that you could not have on your own because you are loving them by the love of God. Part of working well with others is seeing them as God sees them—seeing their potential and their worth. The biggest road block in working with others comes when two mindless, self-indulgent people come together with their own interests in mind. As ministers, we need to be the better person. There are going to be people who want what is best for them. Your job as a minister is to want no only what is best for them, but best for all who are involved. So, if I were to list out ways to better work with people this would be it:
1.Love them
2.Know their worth
3.Know their potential
4.Know their needs and desires
5.Know your own worth, potential, needs and desires (so that others do not threaten yours).
March 26th, 2009
Kelly Jones
How a person learns to work with people. How can you learn how to better work with people.
All you need is love. Right? We work well with others out of love, even when we do not feel like loving them. As ministers, and as Christians, we are called to love as Christ loved. We are called to love not just those who love us back, but love our enemies. We are asked to love the unlovable. Who are the unlovable?—the annoying story-tellers that cannot take a hint to stop talking, the complainers who always have something to whine about, the compulsive apologizers that pity themselves for not doing anything right, the elusive personalities that you cannot seem to understand what they think about you….the list goes on and on. The thing is—we are called to love—but loving is a choice! We are not called to like these people, but we are called to love them.
What does that mean? What does that look like? LIKE THIS: loving others as you love yourself. You always want what is best for you, you are always putting your desires and wants first, and you are always finding ways to improve when you fall flat on your face. You want to be poured into, pruned, and made new. Loving others as you love yourself.
So how does this help me in working with people? It helps you to have patience, peace, and understanding that you could not have on your own because you are loving them by the love of God. Part of working well with others is seeing them as God sees them—seeing their potential and their worth. The biggest road block in working with others comes when two mindless, self-indulgent people come together with their own interests in mind. As ministers, we need to be the better person. There are going to be people who want what is best for them. Your job as a minister is to want no only what is best for them, but best for all who are involved. So, if I were to list out ways to better work with people this would be it:
1.Love them
2.Know their worth
3.Know their potential
4.Know their needs and desires
5.Know your own worth, potential, needs and desires (so that others do not threaten yours).
Monday, March 23, 2009
Having to work out of sync...
Here is from WEEK 9.
March 16th, 2009
Firing a Teacher
Interviewed: C.K. Chitty
When: March 15th, 2009
How do you get rid of an ineffective Sunday school teacher? Advice on how one would go about dealing with an ineffective Sunday school teacher?
Step One:
Determine IF you have an ineffective teacher. Is there a possibility that you have an untrained teacher? Could it be an unmotivated teacher? Perhaps you have a misplaced teacher.
All of these issued can be addressed through specific training, mentoring, refocusing or reassignment.
Another possibility is that the individual may be in the right ministry slot but needs to serve in a different capacity. (Currently serves as a lead teacher but needs to be the assistant/craft/research/activity type person.)
If it is determined that you actually have a person in a place of ministry where their gifts/talents/passions DO NOT match the ministry assignment, go to step two!
Step Two:
In a personal, one-on-one session, reaffirm the value of the individual to the entire ministry. (None of us is as good as all of us.) Discuss the gifts/talents/passions needed for the current (mismatched) assignment. Identify and extol the gifts/talents/passions that you identify in the individual. List the various ministry assignments which play to those strengths and suggest that the individual consider this reassignment.
Generally, this process is considered too much of a “pain in the neck” to those in authority. Therefore, the individual is mishandled and frequently lost to the church and ministry.
March 16th, 2009
Firing a Teacher
Interviewed: C.K. Chitty
When: March 15th, 2009
How do you get rid of an ineffective Sunday school teacher? Advice on how one would go about dealing with an ineffective Sunday school teacher?
Step One:
Determine IF you have an ineffective teacher. Is there a possibility that you have an untrained teacher? Could it be an unmotivated teacher? Perhaps you have a misplaced teacher.
All of these issued can be addressed through specific training, mentoring, refocusing or reassignment.
Another possibility is that the individual may be in the right ministry slot but needs to serve in a different capacity. (Currently serves as a lead teacher but needs to be the assistant/craft/research/activity type person.)
If it is determined that you actually have a person in a place of ministry where their gifts/talents/passions DO NOT match the ministry assignment, go to step two!
Step Two:
In a personal, one-on-one session, reaffirm the value of the individual to the entire ministry. (None of us is as good as all of us.) Discuss the gifts/talents/passions needed for the current (mismatched) assignment. Identify and extol the gifts/talents/passions that you identify in the individual. List the various ministry assignments which play to those strengths and suggest that the individual consider this reassignment.
Generally, this process is considered too much of a “pain in the neck” to those in authority. Therefore, the individual is mishandled and frequently lost to the church and ministry.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Randi Meyer
Tuesday 3/24/2009
Week 10 – Free Choice: Top Three Biggest Lessons Learned in the Ministry
Grant United Methodist
Pastor Constance Cherry – March 18, 2009
1. I am replaceable – This was a huge lesson for Pastor Connie to learn! Often pastors get in their heads that they are a very important in the process and well-being of the church. This is only partly true. The church can replace you and they will survive. We can’t get to big of a head!
2. Don’t Assume – Pastors should not assume that they know where people are at spiritually. Sometimes people are much closer to God than you would think. We cannot judge people’s level of spirituality based on how much they pray aloud, talk about God, ext. Pastor Connie learned that some people are deeply committed to God, but they are just not comfortable being outspoken about their faith. As pastors, we must talk to people to discover how their relationship with God is.
3. The Call of God is Dynamic – Pastor Connie shared that she use to believe that she was called to one thing. The call is a lifetime, but there could be periods of lice that He calls you to different things. God brings about different areas of giftedness forward for specific seasons of life, but they are usually a lengthy time. It does not mean you change what you are doing each year!
Tuesday 3/24/2009
Week 10 – Free Choice: Top Three Biggest Lessons Learned in the Ministry
Grant United Methodist
Pastor Constance Cherry – March 18, 2009
1. I am replaceable – This was a huge lesson for Pastor Connie to learn! Often pastors get in their heads that they are a very important in the process and well-being of the church. This is only partly true. The church can replace you and they will survive. We can’t get to big of a head!
2. Don’t Assume – Pastors should not assume that they know where people are at spiritually. Sometimes people are much closer to God than you would think. We cannot judge people’s level of spirituality based on how much they pray aloud, talk about God, ext. Pastor Connie learned that some people are deeply committed to God, but they are just not comfortable being outspoken about their faith. As pastors, we must talk to people to discover how their relationship with God is.
3. The Call of God is Dynamic – Pastor Connie shared that she use to believe that she was called to one thing. The call is a lifetime, but there could be periods of lice that He calls you to different things. God brings about different areas of giftedness forward for specific seasons of life, but they are usually a lengthy time. It does not mean you change what you are doing each year!
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