While skimming the images one caught my eye. It references the contrast between looking like you work hard and actually working hard.
How many days have you gone home late from work after arriving early carrying a feeling of accomplishment simply from time invested when after examination you realize that you have actually accomplished very little. As a pastor our work is ambiguous at times. Many meetings. Sharing coffee with someone who needs direction, encouragement, direction or to share a "helpful" idea. We can put in a ton of hours and get very little done.
After the birth of my daughter I found myself really wanting to spend more time investing in family and in her. When Tanya was working it was easy leave with her and return with her to keep pretty standard work hours. But with them both at home I work hard to leverage as much time with them as possible.
In a recent post on Swerve, "Don't do it All - Part 3" Craig Groeschel talks about our effectiveness in a short work week. I have experienced the same thing on the last day before vacation. You delegate your teaching moments, you get other tasks covered by volunteer and you make sure that you have properly communicated with other team members and leaders.
I am looking at that list and thinking that these should be habits ever week. Do more in less time, share teaching moments with other gifted communicators, delegate anything you can and put a lot of effort into good communication.
I would love to hear you thoughts on the topic.
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I clicked on the link to "don't do it all part 3" and couldn't find the specific blog. It also didn't turn up by searching for it on swerve.
Without reading the full blog... I think delegating is a great skill that leaders need to learn. It not only frees up your time to do more productive things, but it also gives the body opportunity to work in their gifts, or skill sets, or whatever you want to call it. As you allow your team to assist you in tasks, they in turn (hopefully) will allow others to assist in their tasks. This gives everyone involved more ownership in the church.
I am a great delegator. (if that's a word) I think I learned much of it from Janie and Transistion tours.
One last thing. I once heard a very powerful and rich man speak about hiring servants. He said something along these lines, "In a half an hour I can make a deal worth millions of dollars. Why would I make beds. That's an $8/hour job which makes it an ineffecient use of my time."
It wasn't that the task of making the bed was beneath him, just not effective. So consider when delegating that one should not get rid of a task simply because it is undesirable.One should be making a decision based on what would be the most effectual use of time. Really of God's time that He has given us to steward.
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