Leadership Principles from God’s Word:
Communicating Vision Mario Denton Module 501 F Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Brian teaser: How many boats/ships do you see?
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Passage to memorize Nehemiah 2:17-18 Come let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and we will no longer be in disgrace. ‌ They replied: Let us start rebuilding.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Overall Purpose: To commend communicating vision as an effective tool of leadership for carrying out the work of evangelism. Objectives: Participants will be convinced that commicating vision for life and ministry is biblical; it pleases God and benefits people. 2.
Participants will learn how to write a mission statement for themselves and their ministry
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Objectives (Cont.) 3.
Participants will do a vision audit, and align their goals accordingly.
4.
Participants will be able to comminicate their vision with those close to him/her in his/her ministry
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Building the temple: 1 Chron 28: 1-21 • David make it clear that the vision had come from God. • He informed Solomon that his role would be to lead the charge in building the temple. • David gave his son sufficient detail. • David gave his son encouragement. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Stretch your people • A great guideline for helping people reach their potential and maximize their effectiveness is to stretch them out of their comfort zone … but never out of their gift zone. Dick Wynn
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
John 4:35 • The Bible is a vision-casting book. • I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields; they are ripe for harvest. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
If a vision is well stated, people will demand evidence • The very strength of a vision statement will stimulate resistance. • There is time for persuasion and selling the vision, and a time for pushing it to get it accomplished. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Communication vision: Deut 6:4-9 • Spiritual and moral principles are best conveyed in the laboratory of life; they are conveyed as much through character as they are through words. • Truth is most effectively proclaimed through the consistency of words and works. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
The Ripple Effect Drop a pebble in the water, just a splash and it is gone, but there are half-a-hundred ripples circling on and on and on.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
The Ripple Effect Spreading from the centre, flowing onward to the sea, and there is no way of telling where the end is going to be. Drop a word of cheer and kindness, just a splash and it is gone. But there are half-a-hundred ripples circling on and on and on, bearing hope and joy and comfort on each splashing, dashing wave 'til you wouldn't believe the volume of the one kind word you gave. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
The Ripple Effect Drop a word of cheer and kindness, in a minute you forget. But there is gladness still a-swelling, and there's joy a-circling yet. For you've rolled a wave of comfort whose sweet music can be heard, over miles and miles of water all around the world, by just dropping.... One Kind Word
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Criteria for communicating the vision • Visions that don’t communicate value wont be embraced. • An effective vision offers something better that the present situation. • It is tailor made for your circumstances
• A vision must have long term ramifications that must be worth passing on to the next generation • It requires faith to complete. • It must be single and concrete
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Jesus : Casting a vision. Luke 5:1-11 • Jesus called his disciples after He had already established credibility. • Jesus gave them a vision bigger than themselves. • Jesus equip them to fulfil the task. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
The Visionary …I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth…. Kennedy May 25 1961 Armstrong 20 July 1969
…one small step for man one giant leap for mankind..
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Change process BUILDING OF FUTURE Create & determine need for change Generate vision against need Determine current situation Compare vision with current situation
AWARENESS VISION CURRENT SITUATION GAP
MANAGEMENT OF TRANSITION Plan - Identify interventions Strategic development Implement Monitor & evaluate
RE-FREEZE
CHANGE
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Overall people change approach CREATE
PICTURE
EXPLAIN THE
EXPLAIN
READINESS
DISCOMFORT
THE FUTURE
BENEFITS
THE JOURNEY
ASSESSMENT
EXPLAIN
PROVIDE
WHATS IN IT
THE
THE
FOR
VISION
ME?
SERIOUSNESS
ROAD MAP
SURVEY DIAGNOSIS
AWARENESS PHASE
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Overall people change approach EXPLAIN
‘SNIGGER’
CREATE
PREPARE FOR
IMPLEMENT
CHANGE PLAN
TEST
EXPECTATIONS
REALITY
REALITY
RELEASE PLANS
PLAN PILOT
COMMIS. PILOT
TEACH NEW
OBJECT PLANS
EXPOSURE TO
OBTAIN RESULT
SKILLS
CHANGE PLANS
PROTOTYPE
CELEBRATE
KNOWLEDGE
PEOPLE SYSTEMS INFRASTRUCTURE
TRANSFORMATION PHASE
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Overall people change approach MEASURE
RETRAIN
PROBLEM
REWARDS
SUCCESS
REDEPLOY
SOLVING
RECOGNITION
REGULAR
EMPATHY
FEEDBACK, PERFORMANCE ANALYSES
SUPPORT TRUST
SET UP SMALL TEAMS
REWARDS RECOGNITION
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT PHASE
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Overall people change approach CREATE DISCOMFORT
Drivers Gaps Threat
PICTURE THE FUTURE
End state Architecture
EXPLAIN THE BENEFITS
Business case
EXPLAIN THE JOURNEY
Road map
READINESS ASSESSMENT
Survey Diagnosis
AWARENESS PHASE EXPLAIN CHANGE PLAN
‘SNIGGER’ TESTING
Release plans Object plans Change plans
Exposure to prototype
CREATE EXPECTATIONS
Comm. pilot site results Celebrate successes
PREPARE FOR REALITY
Learning new skills/knowled ge-ge/attitude
IMPLEMENT REALITY
People Systems Infrastructure
TRANSFORMATION PHASE MEASURE SUCCESS
KPI’S Feedback PA
RETRAINING DEPLOYMENT
Remedial
PROBLEM SOLVING
Small teams
REWARDS RECOGNITION
Rewards Recognition
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT PHASE Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Thinking about your purpose • Point to ponder: You were made for a mission. • Verse to remember: “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew 28:19-20 (NIV) • Question to consider: What fears have kept you from fulfilling the mission God made you to accomplish? What keeps you from telling others the Good News? Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Life’s defining moments 1. Find your passion. What do you care about most? Create an overview of what drives you and what you could do without. Allow your passion to take more priority in your life.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Life’s defining moments 2. Follow the big picture of your
life. Don’t waste time on things that aren’t important or that don’t become part of the big picture. Allocate your time more efficiently.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Life’s defining moments (Continued)
3. Spell out to yourself a dream version of your passion. How does it feel? What does it look like? Where would it take you?
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Life’s defining moments (Continued)
4. Get a move on. Don’t wait
until a better time to move toward what you want. There is no better time. The time is now.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Life’s defining moments (Continued)
5. Stay open to changes. Just because things aren’t going exactly to plan doesn’t mean they are not in alignment. Trust the process.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
How to write a working mission statement • Write down a list of things you love to do. • Make a second list of positive attributes about yourself. Start with the words “I am…” • Make a third list of things that you want most in your life. • Here are some additional list ideas: Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
How to write a working mission statement (Continued) • • • • • • • •
What do I keep gravitating to? What did I like to do as a child? If I could change anything what would it be? What interests me most right now? What do I like most about myself? What fills my soul? What can I do well? What are my most unique traits?
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
How to write a working mission statement (Continued) • Compare and contrast all your answers. Combine them in ways you never considered. Somewhere in there is your true mission in life. • Use these words to write a personal mission statement. If the words feel flat and unexciting, you’re on the wrong track. If they overwhelm you with emotion or excitement, you’re on to something! Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
The vision audit 1. Does the ministry have a clearly stated vision? 2. If the ministry continues on it’s current path, where will it be heading over the next decade? 3. Do the people in the ministry know where the ministry is headed? 4. Do the structures, processes, personnel, and incentives support the current direction? Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
The six characteristics of an effective vision Imaginable
Focused
Desirable
Flexible
Feasible
Communicable
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Clarifying an ministry’s mission 1. What ministry should we be in? 2. Why do we exist? 3. What is unique/ distinctive about our ministry? 4. Who are our principal customers, clients or users? 5. What are our principal services, and segments, present and future? Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Clarifying an ministry’s mission (Continued)
6. What are our principal outlets and distribution channels, present and future? 7. What is different about our ministry from what it was 3 and 5 years ago? 8. What is likely to be different about our ministry 3 to 5 years in the future? 9. What are our principles concerns, and how are they measured? 10. What issues are important in our ministry’s future? Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Without vision there is no direction, without direction there is no purpose, without purpose there is no targets, without targets, there are no priorities, without priorities, there is no plan and without a plan there is no hope. Dr David Cormack
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Vision without action is merely a dream; action without vision just passes the time; vision with action can change the world. Joel Arthur Barker
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.. Jack Welch
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
The soul ‌ never thinks without a picture. Aristotle
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. Jonathan Swift
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
Prayer Focus • I trust in you, Lord with all my heart and lean not to my own understanding. • I walk in the light of the word. • Holy Spirit, you are my Counsellor teaching me to educate, train and develop my human spirit. • The word of God shall not depart out of my mouth. I am a doer of the word and put your Word first. Amen Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
WE HAVE A VISION We Have A Vision For This Nation We Share A Dream For This Land We Join The Angels In Celebration And By Faith We Speak Revival To This Land Where Every Knee Shall Bow And Worship You And Every Tongue Confess That You Are Lord Give Us An Open Heaven And Anoint Our Prayers This Day And Move Your Sovereign Hand Across This Nation Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
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: Communicating Vision
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: Communicating Vision
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Communicating Vision