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.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)