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Leading Organisations / Enabling the Body |
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As the size of a Leader's organisation grows there will be a significant change in the leader's role. The emphasis will move from being the active leader of a team, to the enabler and energiser of the organisation. This is largely as a result of the decreasing amount of time he is able to spend on task specific work, or relating personally to members of the organisation. Two things can trigger this change in role : either the leader is promoted within the organisation to take on a more significant responsibility, or the responsibility within the current job increases over time. It is perhaps the latter which is harder to adjust to since it is likely to be a gradual change. With a small team or church, the leader will know every member personally, and be able to develop individual relationships. The leader will have the opportunity to become closely involved with the specifics of the tasks at hand, and delegation is a leadership strategy rather than an operational necessity. As the organisation grows, leadership will be exerted in other ways : through vision, values, systems and the less tangible cultural elements of "the way we do things round here". Delegation becomes imperative, and the good leader is able to restrict their involvement with the detail to those specific issues that need their personal input (relatively few), and instead focus on encouraging others in ministry and developing them. The task of knowing each member of the organisation personally becomes impossible, and the emphasis becomes to create an environment where people feel a part of the whole, and feel just as valued as if the leader had a strong personal relationship with them. We offer a simple checklist
to help you reflect on whether you are striking the right kind of balance for your size of
organisation. |
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Other resources we offer to
leaders of larger organisations include : Building TrustVision and Mission Statements that workFinding value in Organizational values. Bible Study : NehemiahStrategic ThinkingFeatured Extract : Vision
Killers by George Barna. |
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