3. Community.
Your church, staff and community all have a unique style. This has to do with issues like pace, high control versus high trust, people versus tasks and insiders versus outsiders. New England is a different animal that the South, and every leader has their best fit. Everyone has a natural style, and the better the fit of the leader with the style of the church, staff and community then the higher the lid.
4. Chemistry.
While the majority of chemistry is natural, it can be built. The potential of a leader is determined by their inner circle. And if they don’t have strong chemistry with the team, their lid is going to be artificially lowered.
5. Competency.
Competency lids can be issues related to quality, quantity or results in reproduction. There are significant differences in leading a church of 100, 500, 1,000 and 10,000. And the higher you go, the less you must “do” and the more you must be able to “see and relate.” You move past the science side of leadership to the art side of managing the momentum and feeling of the room.
6. Courage.
Managers are consumed with doing things right, and high-level leaders are consumed with doing the right things. High-level leaders fear missing opportunities more than making mistakes. Great leaders are courageous enough to be the boss and make unpopular decisions and, at the same time, humble enough to make mid-course corrections.
