Learning Leadership: Leadership Coaching 8.21.14

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Collin Sewell 8.21.14

Leadership Interview Questions:

1) What are the most important decisions you make everyday or every week?

Decisions that you make as a leader work in multiplication rather than addition. There is no simply math in leadership. Meaning that choice that are made don't just affect your time, they affect the time of those you lead, and the future of your organization.
Leaders who make poor decisions divide the organization rather than subtract from it. Again, there is not simple math.
Pareto Principle -- An Italian Economist that helped explain the distribution of work among people, 80-20. In this theory, 20% of the people do 80% of the work. In churches, 20% of the people give 80% of the money. This can be applied to many economic environments. It becomes vitally important to develop the leader within you, and those around you.

2) Thoughts on leading people:

We need to keep people in their strength zone but take them out of their comfort zone. Its important to know the difference!
Point leadership -- Andy Stanley made this principle popular, its important to allow the best leader for the project, even if the lead leader is forced to follow someone else's leadership.
Goal in managing your time as a leader is to make yourself more available to more people.
As a leader, what can I do to give my organization the biggest return? It starts with whats required, what brings the biggest return, and what is the largest reward.

3) After reading the Laws of Teamwork (Maxwell), how do you help a person who is expected to lead that is inexperienced or growing into a position?

Define the win. Where do you want that person to be?
In the absence of new versions of a job, a person will always revert to the old version.

4) What are some practical things to do as a leader to bring the team together?

Sunday, August 24, 2014