Audio from my session at ChurchPlanters.com on Building Buzz

Many of you have been asking where you can find the audio from my Building Buzz session from the ChurchPlanters.com conference last week.

The best place to find it is by downloading their app which is free in the iTunes store. Just search "Church planter." All the sessions are available on there.

Also, I have made it available for you to download here:

Just trying to "Add Value!" Feel free to pass it along to anyone you think could benefit.

http://www.mediafire.com/?9e67hcy1cf3bh6u



@MatthewKeller

Follow the Leader:: A Life Lesson...

     In Leadership, people follow the leader far more than they follow a vision statement, strategy, or bottom line.

     When it comes to leading our organizations, are vision statements, flow charts, spreadsheets and strategies important? Yes, but at the end of the day, what too few executives fail to remember is that...

People Follow People!!!

     Which challenges every one of us who are in a leadership position with 3 questions:

1.  Am I a Leader people can Trust?

     Let's be honest for a second...

           Can your team trust you? Does your team really believe that you have their best interest and the best interest of the organization in mind when you're making leadership decisions? Or do they know that we're secretly in it for our own gain?

            People follow people they can trust. After all, if they take a paycheck from you, then on some level they're trusting the well-being of their family to you. Leadership is a trust. And people follow people they can trust.

2.  Am I a Leader people can Know?

     In our day and age, it's not enough for people to just follow a vision statement or a set of company core values, people want to know the leader they're willingly following. And here in lies the risk.

We must risk being vulnerable. 

     As leaders, we must risk opening up and letting people in. The people we lead want to know us. How we think, what we're feeling, how we process information and how we make decisions. The more our people can know us, the more likely they will be to follow our leadership.

3.  Am I a Leader people can Emulate?

     At the end of the day, people want to follow someone that they want to be like. Of course every person wants to be unique in their personality, their style, etc. But...

When it comes to who we are on the inside, everyone of us are looking for people to emulate. 

     And let's be honest, none of us will follow long-term, someone that we don't want to be like on the inside.
     When we get to know someone more deeply and don't like what we see, over time, we'll begin to pull away from that person. So the challenge for us as leaders is this: Am I living my life and leading in such a way that people will want to emulate what they see? At the end of the day, people follow leaders they can emulate.

     As leaders, we don't have to know everything, but we must know ourselves, because people will follow us far more than they follow our vision statement, strategy, or bottom line.

 Application Question: How am I doing at leading myself well?