Leading Hope with Kevin Jack Leading Hope with Kevin Jack

People buy into a leader before they buy into a vision or culture.

- They Need to Like You

- Tim Sanders book on Likeability



People who came out after biographies of Steve Jobs to counter them.

- They Need to Trust You

- Character & Competency. Integrity & Ability.

- Competency attracts

- Character sustains



They Need to Want to Follow You

- Able to follow: you’re going somewhere.

- Want: Bold Direction.



They need to know you trust them.

- You have to be willing to go alone on hills you’ll die on.

- You have to be willing to change your path.

- People buy into your why (where), they need to know you’ll change your how.



People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

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Helping people think strategically.

Want this to be a tool for you or for you to help others.



Questions To Ask To Help You Think Strategically

What problems am I repeatedly solving?

Strategy is a response to a problem.

(Not New): Why am I repeatedly solving this problem?

If I’m blaming human nature: It’s a strategy issue.

“They just won’t; they never complete; no one cares; no one’s smart enough.”

There’s a big difference between a tension to manage and a problem to solve.

If the pendulum swings too far one way

How do I future fix it? (FUTURE IMPROVE)

People think they’re not strategists because it’s not perfect. Perfection isn’t the goal, improvement is.

What are potential problems two steps down the line?

Strategic Thinking is future forecasting.

If you can dream, you can begin to think strategically.

Solutions & Next Steps

Read Biographies and Case Studies

The strength of the strategy is your ability to communicate it simply.

An executable strategy is infinitely better than a perfect theory.

Intro

– Find somewhere you can find a mentor; also hear that experience is the best teacher.

– Large organization where you can learn systems: Small organization where you can do a lot of stuff.

– Find a great workplace culture; or you can learn as much from a bad culture as you can a good culture.

– Offer my perspective on picking your first job…assuming you have a choice. If you don’t; you might just need to take a job.



History

– 3 Internships while in college.

– Children’s Intern at Home Church: Common

– Youth Intern at Growing Church: Did Nothing.

– Children’s Pastor at Small Church: Did Everything & Was Overworked and undervalued.

– Youth Pastor eventually interim pastor at Mid-Sized Church for 3.5 years



Two Points

1. Find Calling, Not Benefits, Not a Career, Not a Ladder of Advancement.

1. Key Questions (Ministry-Focused)

1. Does your heart break for the community?

2. Do you love the people?

2. Further

1. Pay package and benefits do give you a sense of value for the role. (Within Reason)

2. Future Opportunities are helpful, there’s not many people who stay at an organization for 10 years. Sometimes “advancement” is dangled without any plan or vision.

2. Your job choice should be tailored to your development, which means you must know your weaknesses.

1. Your first job should not be viewed as your maximum level of impact, but your maximum level of development.

1. People coming in overestimate the impact they are making, underestimate what they can be learning.

2. Now Pick, with that in mind. To maximize your development.



Guidelines to Consider

1. If you lack strategy, go to a large organization!

2. If you lack experience, go to a small organization!

3. If you’re secure, get a leader you will learn from.

4. If you’re insecure, get a leader you will connect with.

5. If you’re mature & secure, pick opportunity.

6. If you’re not, pick culture.



Don’t: Pick Benefits, Salary, Cool City, or Future Promises.



Close

– People pick jobs for all the wrong reasons. Choose Calling & Development over everything else first.