“To the elders among you, I appeal as a fellow elder and a witness of Christ’s sufferings who also will share in the glory to be revealed: Be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care, watching over them—not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants you to be; not pursuing dishonest gain, but eager to serve; not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock. And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away.” 1 Peter 5: 1-4
Leadership Innovates: - Innovation is defined simply as a "new idea, device, or method". However, innovation is often also viewed as the application of better solutions that meet new requirements, unarticulated needs, the process of translating an idea or invention into a good or service that creates value or for which customers will pay. Invention creates new idea while innovation applies the created ideas. This will bring about positive change. Whatever new ideas you bring that may achieve your purpose but do not result in positive change is never an innovation. Innovation involves deliberate application of information, imagination and initiative in deriving greater or different values from resources. When the crowds saw this, they were filled with awe and glorified God, who had given such authority to men. Mark 2: 11; Matthew 9: 8, 33. Aim at new things.
Leadership Motivates: - Motivation is the act or process of giving someone a reason for doing something. When you as leader fails to let your followers see reason or reasons in a clear concise manner what you want them to do, they won't follow you. This is why we record negative reports of meetings most times. Then I said to them, "You see the bad situation we are in, that Jerusalem is desolate and its gates burned by fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that we will no longer be a reproach." I told them how the hand of my God had been favorable to me and also about the king's words which he had spoken to me. Then they said, "Let us arise and build." So they put their hands to the good work” Nehemiah 2: 17, 18 Leaders motivates his followers to make vision a reality. Bad leaders instigate people to abort vision. Leadership is about influence. Then on the second day the heads of fathers’ households of all the people, the priests and the Levites were gathered to Ezra the scribe that they might gain insight into the words of the law. They found written in the law how the LORD had commanded through Moses that the sons of Israel should live in booths during the feast of the seventh month. So they proclaimed and circulated a proclamation in all their cities and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hills, and bring olive branches and [h]wild olive branches, myrtle branches, palm branches and branches of other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.” So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each on his roof, and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God, and in the square at the Water Gate and in the square at the Gate of Ephraim”
Leadership Appreciates: - Appreciation is an incentive to do more and better. Leaders must learn how to say thank you. The Church of God is not just a place to see wrongs in everything or everybody. Human beings perform better when they are recognized and appreciated for job well done. Before pointing out errors acknowledge efforts and appreciate the good gestures. You can now point out whatever needs to be improved upon.
