Leadership

Your Team Probably Isn’t A Good Team If…

Jan 26, 2012

You probably don’t have a good team if…

  • You do not enjoy being around one another.
  • You hardly ever have any fun together.
  • You think everyone in the room (except for you) is a complete moron.
  • You don’t trust each other.
  • You constantly interrupt each other without letting the other person actually complete their thoughts.
  • You rehearse the fights you perceive to be coming in your mind before the meeting.
  • You have no one on the team that will actually speak the truth.
  • You always look for the easy solution rather than the right one.
  • You are not fully engaged in the meetings that you are involved in.  (If you are checking email, facebook and tweeting during a meeting then you are NOT fully engaged and are under-serving as a leader!)
  • You are obsessed with being recognized rather than seeing how you can serve.
  • You constantly come up with solutions that make your job easier and puts more strain on the people whom you have given the responsibility to lead.
  • You always try to make sure everyone around the table is always happy with every decision that is made.
  • You have people at the table that are personally irresponsible with their finances.  If they are responsible with their own…then why would it be any different when it comes to the churches?
  • You have a resume.  (I recently told our entire staff, “if you have a resume then I either want you to destroy it or send it out!”  If you have a resume that simply means there is always a thought in your mind of going somewhere else!!!  “But what if they fire me,” you ask?  I say if you are an awesome worker then you won’t need a resume, people will find you!  See Proverbs 22:29)

So, how’s your team?