Leadership Recipe

As we help people to discover their leadership recipe (this is what my friend Jeff Simmons calls it) we have to ask two series of questions.

Why do people follow you? If you were to go start a new company or a new ministry who would join your team?

Why would they?

How can you do more of that? Or develop more of that?

When people leave your team, or never join your team, why do they leave?

How do you diminish that?

(There are some things that you shouldn't change just because someone doesn’t like it, but there are some things we need to be honest about and let God into that part of our life and transform.)

When we first ask the question people’s answers will be surface level, “I am wise” but the gold is layers deeper than that and we must guide them down a journey to deeper answers. “I care deeply about others and invest my energy in diagnosing what gets in the way of their success and then have the courage to tell them”

People need guides because for most people they are not aware of their genius because it comes naturally to them. The problem with not recognizing your giftedness is that you don’t know how to do more of it.