Your Boss Needs You To Be…
I don’t care if you work for a church, a business, or a factory. I guarantee you, your boss needs you to be…
- A Momentum-Increaser — don’t make your boss be the only one pulling up the attitude and bringing energy to the workplace.
- A Values-Champion — No one should live out the values of the organization more than you do.
- A Silo-Destroyer — sniff out and destroy the silos that exist in departments throughout the organization. Make sure everyone is more committed to the macro vision than their micro project.
- A Straight-Talker — don’t engage in triangle conversations or put-downs of your team or leaders.
- A Generous-Giver — okay, this one is specific to working at a church, but I would never work for a church where I didn’t believe in it enough to give as much as I possibly could.
- An Innovative-Thinker — be solution-oriented. Don’t just come to your boss with problems, but also solutions. Your attitude should be, “Economy tough? Less staff? Lower budget? No problem, we’ll figure out a way to get through this!”
- A Loyal-Friend — you don’t have to hang out together, but he needs to know you are “for” him. If put in a corner, your boss knows you would defend her.
- A Back-Protector — always believe the best. Always.
- An Integrity-Keeper — you are who you are when no one is looking. Your boss needs you to have great character.
- An Unbelievable-Spouse and Effective Parent — the strength of your leadership and effectiveness comes from your leadership at home.
- A Lifelong Learner — read books, study other best practices, learn, learn, learn–then come back and apply it to your organization.
- An Equipping-Leader…not a Satisfied-Doer — You should be building teams and reproducing teams. Take delight in the success of your team more than your own success!
What else would you add to this list? Which one is most difficult for you?
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Marc Millan
Incredible list, I'd add
Vision protector- When ever people on the team are confused and start talking negative about the direction of leadership we gotta step in and make things right in that conversation, letting it fester is like joining the conversations ourselves.
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youthofarabia
A Generous-Giver — okay, this one is specific to working at a church, but I would never work for a church where I didn’t believe in it enough to give as much as I possibly could.
I like the list, but I have found in my experience that {Generious Giver} this attitude in a church work environment is strongly abused. I no longer have the freedom to "give", I must give my work hours and then volunteer more time on top of that, not based on where I like to serve, but where my supervisor wants the most work done. This changes it from being giving to being unpaid overtime.
I agree that as a Christian, I should give to the church, but somewhere we need to break the abuse of "requiring" workers to "volunteer" instead of paying for their time or giving them option to actually volunteer where and how they choose.
keithcarpenter
Great thoughts Tim. I am sure I will be teaching and applying these soon with my leadership team. I'd like to think my team members are also Trust Builders and Passionate in Conflict. Love the "Five Dysfunctions of a Team" book by Patrick Lencioni.
MikeAllen
Thank Tim for that .. what an encouragement. I am going to be sharing this with my national team leaders next week!! What great words of wisdom!!
PhilThompson
I struggle with #10, An Unbelievable-Spouse and Effective Parent. My wife tells me i'm doing well but it's easy for me to get catch up in my "work". I need to practiced hitting the OFF switch!
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ScottJAllen
Great list, Tim.
I want team members who are going to appropriately and maturely "lead-up." It's crucial to a team-centric model. it's especially important when you're pioneering or creating with trustworthy and knowledgeable people. I want to see what they see, and know what they know. However, it requires wisdom from the team member to know when and how to use their "permission to speak freely" moments.
Ben Sigman
Tim,
This was an incredible post and was really helpful for our team. Keep up the great work.
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