The 4 Lenses of Leadership

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1. The Lens of Passion

A passionate leader understands the effect their excitement has on every single follower.

Leaders, your followers feed off your passion—it’s like protein for the team. It’s almost impossible to dam up the torrent of unbridled passion. It becomes an unstoppable force.

Leaders, how filled is your passion bucket? Do people feel the heat when they hang out with you or is it so low your team members have to poke you to make sure you’re still alive. Whose job is it to fill the bucket? It’s yours. How does a leader keep his/her passion bucket filled?

2. The Shattered Lens

Maybe your past leadership lens is built around broken leadership stories? No matters your past or your leadership education/history—you can change and grow. We need to build beautiful cultures in our churches and organizations. An organization or church will only be as healthy as the top leader wants it to be. God only treasures one thing in this vast cosmos…people. When he entrusts us with these people—we must figure out how to develop them fully and create environments for them to thrive.

3. The Performance Lens

Leaders have to get stuff done. Speed of the leader, speed of the team. Leadership requires continual adjustment regarding goals and performance. Willow has gone back and forth on the scale—sometimes focusing too many on goals and then over adjusting. There needs to be balance and clarity in what we seek to achieve. It’s critical to measure the right things for your team to thrive. It’s also critical to let your people know how they’re performing. Every team member wants to know how they’re doing. It’s cruel punishment to employ someone and not tell them how they’re doing.

4. The Legacy Lens

We have to help our teams perform at the highest level, but every once in a while we need to look back to see what we’ve left behind. You will leave a leadership legacy. What kind of legacy will you leave? Leadership is not fundamentally about time, but energy. What have you put your energy into?

You can restart and put more energy into the right things. Throughout history God has helped leaders write new narratives for their lives and change their legacies. 

by Bill Hybels