These four principles will change how you view being a successful principled leader, mainly because of the simplicity behind the concept.  It is easy to remember and implement into your daily decisions.  Let’s start off by reviewing why so many leaders quickly deviate from the latest leadership books or motivational conferences.

We all know how many books are out there on leadership and being a successful leader.  Learn these 5 things or do these 9 steps each day to be a “real” leader.  While most people don’t disagree with many of principles included in many of these leading books on leadership, their main focus is on high level decision making and often includes many steps and/or complex processes.  What about all those top gun conferences out there?  Once again most leaders would agree with many of the principles or theories that they teach, however, how much money and time can we devote to more conferences on top of our busy schedule?  If you are in the business or ministry world there are two main hurdles: #1 Time - how do your cram in another event in your already busy schedule. #2 how do you pay for this training since the budget is already tight. 

You may have noticed we have just discussed why several of the traditional leadership training efforts are hard for you to fit into your already busy life.  Notice we have not even touched on team leadership training or training of the volunteers you work with at a church or a non-profit organization.  If leadership skill training is important to you, then it must be equally important for your volunteer leaders or teammates.  How much more time and energy would you have if other people were leading effectively?  How many of your people are taking ownership of your mission, vision, and values?  Are your customers wowed by your service and/or people?  If you are in the ministry world, is your church growing and impacting the lives of the people in and around your areas of influence? 

If the above mentioned are not happening in your organization you may ask yourself, are these bad people?  No! Not by any means.  But we must equip our people to make good decisions and be great leaders.  Think about their training.  Many of them have not been trained to be the leaders that we want them to be.  If they have graduated from college we may argue that they know many theories or mechanics of how to do a job and/or task, however, they have not received leadership skill training on how to successfully lead a group of people.  If you are in the ministry world you are dealing with even a greater amount of diversity in skills training of people.  Some are school teachers, mechanics, homemakers, artists, musicians, managers, accountants, just to name a few.  What a diverse group!  Do you think they all have been taught how to be a principled leader or for that matter had any leadership skill training at all?

The Four Principles of a solid Principled Leader are critical for our teams, our leaders, and our volunteers.  Communicating these principles in a creative way to our teams will help them start assimilating to the skills associated with each of the four principles.

Take a moment and ask yourself... “Am I, as the leader, providing the tools and skills to equip and empower my teams to change lives, in church, in families, in business, and in life?”  If you answer no, then training and development must be in your future.

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