Manifest Leadership 09 Be the Best You!

When you do what you do well, people will want to watch. They will want to bring others to watch. This morning I was in a training course to help learn how to raise up and train church planters. Then I am off to equip leaders and ministers. When I do what I do well, people want to watch.

Part of manifest leadership is making sure you keep sharpening your saw, keep learning, keep honing your skills. There’s something very powerful when you are talking to a pastor, and they say “Well, last week, I was watching Keith Moore, or Kenneth Copeland, or whoever, and I got this revelation, does that help?” – they are still learning, still plugged in.

If you are not a lifelong learner, you are the bottleneck for your team. No one else will grow because you are holding everyone back. If you do not learn how to delegate (and develop the character to enable others to shine), then as you do everything yourself, there is an absolute limit to what you can do. Today, I was listening to Pastor Alan Morton (did you see what I did there?) and he said addition is not enough to achieve the results we need to achieve, we must have multiplication. To do that, you have to inspire people that you are capable, be continually developing yourself, and find ways to release and equip others.

If you are a leader – pastor, elder, dad, mum, worship leader, deacon, businessman, boss, prime minister – then ask yourself the following questions:

1. When was the last time I listened to a sermon when no one else was around to see me?
2. What is the name of the book I am in the middle of?
3. What conferences have I been to this year?
4. What book of the Bible are you reading right now? Did you read the Bible today?
5. When was the last time you met someone in your field who is more spiritual than you and learned from them?
6. Who was the last person you read a biography about (you have to read biographies of heroes of the faith)?
7. What blogs are you reading about leadership (hint: this one is really good)?

Be honest with yourself. Don’t beat yourself up, but if the answers are none, and I can’t remember, and it was a long time ago – time to do something about it. You cannot be the bottleneck, eventually something will break, and it will probably be you. You don’t want that, I don’t want that, and Jesus doesn’t want that. Go and learn something!