Leadership Principles from God’s Word:
Decision Making Mario Denton Module 603 A Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Passage to memorize James 4: 13-15 … “ Why you do not even know what will happen tomorrow …instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Decision making is a core competency of a leader • Decisions reveal values. • They require obedience and dependence upon God. • Thy demand wisdom. • Keep your eyes wide open when you make decisions. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Nehemiah and his huge challenge: Nehemiah 1:1-11 • He carefully studied the situation. • He empathized with those who were hurting. • He humbled himself before God. • He prayed. • Nehemiah adored God, confessed his nation’s sin and finally petitioned God for help. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Two key prerequisites for decision making • Our prayers can make a difference in decisions. Gen 18: 16-33 • Good decision making require adequate information and careful analysis of all the pertinent facts • Once made such decision should be decisively communicated and implemented Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
The value of wise counsel • The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice. • Proverbs 12:15
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
The value of wise counsel • Pride only breeds quarrel, but wisdom is found in those who take advice. • Proverbs 13:10
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
The value of wise counsel • Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisors they succeed. • Proverbs 15:22
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
The value of wise counsel • Listen to advice and accept instructions, and in the end you will be wise. Proverbs 19:20
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
The value of wise counsel • For waging wars you need guidance, and for victory many advisers. Proverbs 24:6
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
What are your TOP FIVE priorities that need the most attention?
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
START It’s the start that stops most people.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
The bridge you burn now may be the one you later have to cross.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. Roy Disney
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
What can you do to live a more balanced life?
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
What is complicating your life right now? How can you simplify it?
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Your true religion is the life you live, not the creed you profess. Unknown
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
What you will do in your ministry is what matters, not what you can do. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
When we put our trust in any person, we will be disappointed. God is the only One of our faith and hope .
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
The value of wise counsel • In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps. Proverbs 16:9 • Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails. Proverbs 19:21
• To man belong the plans of the Heart, but from the Lord comes the reply of the tongue.
Proverbs 16.1 • Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. Proverbs 16: 3
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Develop your mental sharpness: Proverbs 11:1-6 • The fear of The Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline • Proverbs1: 7
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Understanding real issues • What caused the problem? • Who allowed it to happen? • What has happened as a result? • What forces are trying to stop the problem from happening? • What are the side issues? Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
What do you see?
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Understanding the real issues 1. Have you removed the fog from the problem by focusing on where the change might be needed? 2. Have you gathered information that will determine the real source of the issue, and not just the symptoms?
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
High Performance Leadership Pay & Incentives
Stakeholder Commitment Strategy
Talent Creation
Business Processes Structures
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
The seven sets of critical ministry practices Strategy
Structures
The ways in which strategy is formulated and utilised as a primary driver of performance within the ministry. The extent to which structures are designed to reinforce and drive performance by optimizing the ministry’s supply chain and the fulfillment of accountability at all levels
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
The seven sets of critical ministry practices Business processes
People capacity
The adoption and widespread use of a set of integrated business processes that reinforce and cause high performance Ministry practices and disciplines that ensure the optimum development and utilization of people and their ability to contribute to performance
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
The seven sets of critical ministry practices Stakeholder commitment
Pay and incentives
Developing the alignment of all stakeholders so that they operate as active contributors to the competitiveness of the ministry
The alignment of pay and incentive systems that attract, retain, and enhance the commitment of people across all levels
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
The seven sets of critical ministry practices Change leadership
The use of proven leadership and processes for implementing change turning strategy into operational action that delivers competitive performance
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Problem Statement‌
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
what is change management? looking at it over time…
Transition Phase
D
C
Continuous Improvement Steady State
Productivity
A Valley of despair
Change Implementation
:: Objectives of Managing Change:
Stabilize
B
• Minimize A: Duration of performance dropoff during transition phase • Minimize B: Depth of performance drop-off during transition phase • Maximize C: Performance level after implementation • Maximize D: Continuous improvement
Time Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
the change management goal... Internalisation
The Commitment Curve
Institutionalisation company wide
Commitment Phase
Adoption Pilot Implementation Positive Perception
Acceptance Phase Understanding
Awareness
Preparation Phase
Contact
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why do projects fail?
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
implementing change successfully
Shared Vision Leadership Communication Sustained Ownership Change Receptive Culture
Right Results Specific interventions to address People Issues: • Organisation design • Performance Management • Competencies and Skills • Organisational Culture • Leadership • Reward and Recognition
Project Management Measures in place
Successful implementation of the transformation programme will require all seven success factors to be addressed effectively
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
sustained ownership An organisation will increase its commitment to change through involvement and respect for people’s capacity to overcome challenges.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
creating a receptive culture‌
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
managing the journey‌
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
change plan The actions required to implement the change can be grouped into four main areas, based on the extent to which they encourage employees to pull-through the change, and the level of organisational impact… Planning for and managing the move from the “as is” organisation to the desired “to be” state Critical products developed that provide individuals and the function with knowledge, skills, tools, frameworks and support to perform their work successfully
Navigation
Leadership
Enablement
Ownership
Ownership and commitment to change experienced by all individuals affected by the change throughout the function
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
change plan The actions identified in the Change Plan, when implemented in line with the seven key change components, ensure that the change can be sustained... Shared Vision Leadership Communication
Navigation
Leadership
Enablement
Ownership
Sustained Ownership Change Receptive Culture Project Management Measures in place
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
are you there yet? measures and metrics
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The end Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
No decision is wise if it is made independently of God
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Prayer Focus • Father, in Jesus name, I thank you for filling me with the knowledge of Your will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding that I may walk worthy of You, Lord being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of You. Amen Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
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: Decision Making
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: Decision Making
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making