Leadership Essentials

     Recently in staff meeting at CrossRoads, Lead Pastor Griff put in front of us some teaching from Andy Stanley, a pastor out of Atlanta.  He was teaching on creating and maintaining a culture of trust in your organization, as well as the importance of that culture.  The reality is, in our world, so many fellow employees are always at each others throats, arguing and fighting about things that are usually insignificant.  Worse such, church staff members who are attempting to complete an ultimate purpose are completely unaware how to work together in a manor worthy of their purpose.

     Andy makes a few suggestions.  Employees need to take up two positions 1) I'm going to trust you. 2) I'm going to be trustworthy.  Its simple, basic Christianity.  As employee's we must choose to fill the gap between what we currently know about a person, and what we are discovering with trust.   Unity is a must to create this positive culture and extinguish suspicion.  These are the highlights of Andy's talk:

• Being trustworthy does not mean being flawless.
• We must committed to do what we say were going to do, and if something changes, commit to be the one to notify of it.
• Harboring suspicion and mistrust will eventually poison the culture of your organization.
• People know who you have a hard time trusting based on your attitude. This is impossible to hide.