Leadership
Student Ministry
Try a new Hat!!!
2:57 PM
You ever stare at something sooo long you begin to not even
notice it? I know I do. At times I start staring at a picture that still needs
lots of work, but after so long of staring at it I begin to become immune to
the things that need to be corrected or tweaked a little.
I think this happens a lot to leaders. There are things that
we know need to be tweaked and changed but after a while we just get so use to
the way it is that we don’t even see the deficiencies. It becomes a part of
what we do and it plants itself right there like it belongs.
What I have discovered is sometimes to see these issues you
have to change hats. Quit viewing your organization and your area of the organization
through your role. See it from the person you are trying to reach and through
the lens of what you are trying to accomplish.
I am a Family Pastor and part of my role is to make sure
that all of our different areas from birth thru high school are working with
the same strategy and that we are continually moving towards what we want to
ultimately accomplish. So recently we met and we were talking about how to
improve the experience of the first time parent. We broke it down into 5 key
things that we would want to experience if we were coming to oneChurch.tv for
the first time.
Now every person in the room is a parent. We all have
children and multiple children. We are also leaders in our church. We have been
looking at this issue for some time with the leader hat on, but we had yet to
put our parent hat on to discover some holes. That changed everything. We
discovered that several things we are doing work really really well. We also
discovered some things that we not working so well. All because we didn’t look
at as something WE do but we tried to see it from what if we were experiencing it
for the first time? That made the holes and decencies much more obvious and it
gave us a lot to celebrate.
It was a great meeting with a lot of awesome perspective.
All we had to do was view it from a different lens. Point of view is huge! All
it takes is just a little different approach.
Here are 2 questions to help you decide what hat you need to
wear.
Who are you trying to
reach – discovering whom you are trying to appeal to makes it a lot easier
to figure out what will appeal to them. Every circumstance is different. For
example I want the kids that come to oneChurch.tv to experience something
completely different then their parents because different things matter to
parents than to their kids.
What do you want them
to experience – ask the tough questions to figure out what you want each
person that you encounter to experience? That question on the surface is easy,
but I challenge you to take it back to your team and dig into it. It will blow
you away how deep that well is. Once you figure out what that looks like you
can begin to have actionable steps to see progress. Really until you unpack
that thought you are guessing. This provides concrete direction!
What different perspective do you need to take? What
different hat do you need to wear?
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