Is your effectiveness as a leader growing? (95-2) Godly leaders desire to be effective and give their best to serve God with the gifts they have been given. Effective leaders consistently monitor their conviction and look for signs of leadership deterioration. Review 2 Samuel 15:1-37.
David’s leadership had been blessed by God and Israel had become a world power and served as a shining testimony of their God to all the nations around them. Over time David began to focus more on his personal needs and desires and less on his role as God’s leader. Second Samuel 15 chronicles one of the lowest points in David’s life as a leader of a nation and as a leader in his family. David’s son Absalom became so disillusioned with his father’s leadership that he determined to steal the kingdom and destroy his own father and family. The chapter ends with David fleeing the capitol city and setting up a clandestine network that will infiltrate Absalom’s team to confuse the advice Absalom receives from his advisors and get David insider information.
A few common sense ways to determine if your effectiveness as a leader is growing or fading:
- Consider your decisions and the resulting actions over the past year:
- Are you facing the challenges head on or delaying decisions that could be made because you don’t have the desire or energy to take on the challenge?
- Are you serving your team or frustrated because you don’t seem to get the respect and recognition you feel you deserve?
- Are you developing plans and strategies or simply reacting to situations?
- Are you excited about the assignment God has given you or just showing up for a paycheck?
- Do you have energy, excitement, a “feeling” of accomplishment, contentment and joy in your life or are you tired, frustrated with lack of momentum, and worried all the time?
- Are you hopeful that you can make a difference with your team or does any accomplishment seem hopeless?
- Consider the responses of your team to your leadership over the past year
- Are team members seeking your advice early (or per their normal pattern) or explaining mistakes later?
- Do you hear more complaints about wages now than before?
- Are there more disputes between members than usual?
- Are some team members, that you thought were happy, looking for other jobs?
Godly leaders seek God’s wisdom to avoid a crisis in leadership rather than wisdom to repair damage later. In which area above do you need to seek God’s wisdom to make sure your effectiveness as a leader is growing?
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