Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Module 402 G
Long-Range Planning Mario Denton Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Passage to memorize Proverbs 4: 25-27 Let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze directly before you. Make level paths for your feet and take only ways that are firm. Do not swerve to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
It’s time to rebuild the wall
Nehemiah 2v18b
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Long–Range Planning • Looking ahead into the future is an integral part of leadership. • From a short range perspective things may appear to be out of control, but God is ordering all things in such a way that they will reach a glorious consummation. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Long–Range Planning. Proverbs 6: 6-8 • Go the ant your sluggard; consider its ways, and be wise! • It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, • yet it stores its provision in summer and gathers it foods at harvest. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Long–Range Planning: Isaiah 30: 1-5 • Ask yourself whether your values, the vision, the mission and the strategic plan reflect a dependence upon God? • Does the whole planning document honor God or his existence? Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Long–Range Planning: Romans 15: 22-29 Planning is crucial. But sometimes leaders need to respond to and take advantage of changes in the environment. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Long–Range Planning • To what degree have you disciplined yourself to be a long range planner? • Do you seek direction from the Spirit and counsel from godly people as you evaluate your plans? Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
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New ministr y Inertia Radical change & upheavel Catastrophic event
Ministry become irrelevant
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
The change-sensitive ministry Environmental forces (External factors requiring change )
Warning signals indicating the need to change
Ministry tracking
(Incremental changes in response to the environment)
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Strategy Development Workshop for your Ministry-
Effective leaders lay plans with the end in mind
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Process Opportunities and threats
Current Positioning/reality Future Positioning/reality
Stop, Initiate, Let go, Maintain
HEARTBEAT
Setting the scene • External forces • Strategic context • Culture
Key success factors to achieve positioning
Key external forces impacting on success
Strategic focus areas • Identification • Ranking • Sponsorship • Implementation steps
Enablers & inhibitors
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Your passion, mission and shared values
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Current Heartbeat What is complicating in your ministry right now? What keeps you awake (at night)? What inspires you/makes you tick in your ministry? What are some of the indicators of high vitality in your ministry? What gives your spirit, mind, heart and body energy? What are your dreams/ fears for your ministry? What would you like to be remembered for? Discuss your unfolding strategy for your ministry. What are the things (top priorities) you need to: Let go? Stop? Maintain? Initiate? If you could change anything in your ministry, what would it be? (Yourself, team, ministry) Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Summary of heartbeat. Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Extrapolation of key external forces are used to create a range of possible future environments
Scenario 1 Tomorrow
Key external forces Tomorrow
Regulation and Legislation
Behavior of Competitors
Scenario 2
Scenario 3
Tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow Yesterday
Today
Tomorrow Tomorrow
Scenario 4
Market growth and development
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Describe and rank the key external forces that will impact on the success of your ministry. •
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Assume it is five years later, looking back over the last five years and you conclude that your ministry has been an absolute great success… What major external forces would you have had to overcome and which would have accelerated your progress?
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Identifying the enablers and inhibitors of your ministry • Describe enablers and inhibitors. • Prepare to present your view to the group. • Group summarises enablers and inhibitors. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Identify strategic focus areas •
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Given the required key success factors, opportunities and threats, key external forces and enablers and inhibitors – what should the Ministry do? Generate a list of strategic focus areas that should be managed. Prepare to present your view to the group. Group summarises strategic focus areas.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Strategic focus areas: Implementation and sponsorship • Identify key short, medium and long term steps and indicate current progress. • Prepare to present your view to the group. Group summarises next steps. • Assign a sponsor to each strategic focus area. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Strategic focus area description • Short term actions:
• Medium term actions:
• Long term actions
• Sponsor:
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Next steps Step
Responsible
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
“MOST MINISTRIES DON’T FAIL FOR LACK OF TALENT OR STRATEGIC VISION. THEY FAIL FOR LACK OF EXECUTION.”T J Rodger
Cypress Semiconductor
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
THE LAW OF NAVIGATION Anyone can steer the ship but it takes a leader to chart the course. John Maxwell
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
THE LAW OF BUY-IN - People buy into the leader first, then the leader’s vision. - When people become confident in the leader, they become confident in the vision. - Buy-in is an ongoing process. John Maxwell
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
On being President (of South Africa) This has placed a great responsibility on my shoulders. We enter into a covenant that we shall build a society in which all South Africans, both black and white, will be able to walk tall, without any fear in their hearts, assured of their inalienable right to human dignity – a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world. To be the father of a nation is a great honour, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Some food for thought • Your highest thoughts are about your God. • Your deepest conversations are in your prayers. • Your most humble posture – on your knees. • Your most precious gift is LIFE. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Evangelism is like motivation for a church. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills. What a ministry leave behind is not what is engraved on stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Prayer Focus • Father, In the name of Jesus, I surrender myself to walk in the Word. Your word living in me produces the Life in this world. • The word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. It makes my way plain before me. • I boldly and confidently say that my heart is fixed and established on the solid foundation – the Living Word of God! Amen Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
As I Come Into Your Presence AS I COME INTO YOUR PRESENCE PAST THE GATES OF PRAISE INTO YOUR SANCTUARY TILL WE'RE STANDING FACE TO FACE I LOOK UPON YOUR COUNTENANCE I SEE THE FULLNESS OR YOUR GRACE I CAN ONLY BOW DOWN AND SAY... YOU ARE AWESOME IN THIS PLACE MIGHTY GOD YOU ARE AWESOME IN THIS PLACE ABBA FATHER YOU ARE WORTHY OF ALL PRAISE TO YOU OUR LIVES WE RAISE YOU ARE AWESOME IN THIS PLACE MIGHTY GOD
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Learning, application and commitment: James 1: 22-25 • “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. • Do what it says. • Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in the mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. • But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does.” (NIV) Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Learning, application and commitment • One of the Biblical truths (principles) that I have learned from this lesson was … • I intend to apply this truth (principle) in my business/Ministry by: ….. • With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately. I ask and expect my group to hold me accountable for this and to check with me periodically to determine if I am doing so. Please ask me ….. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Long-range Planning