How To Challenge Your Team To Their Highest Potential

If you’ve read my blog at all, you know I’m passionate about discipleship.

I love to raise people up. It thrills me to see young people go from scared, self-doubters to passionate worship leaders. It’s my favorite part of what I do.

What about you?

At the end of your life, will you stand alone with your accolades or will you have others beside you – world changers you’ve discipled?

We’ve recently been talking about the dissatisfied generation. We’re never content with where we are but longing for something more. As I mentioned in this post, one way to rescue yourself from this way of life is to pour yourself into another – rescue your self-absorption by raising others up.

Rather than building your own kingdom, invest your life into others.

Do you realize your influence?

You see, as a leader you have influence. People look up to you. When you speak, it matters to them. When you’re excited about something, they get excited about it. When you want to get something done, they’re behind you.

Wouldn’t you say we need to leverage that influence for the good of others and the glory of God?

How do we push our team members to their highest potential? Or better yet, how do you become this type of leader – one that attracts other great leaders and raises them up?

I thought of at least 5 ways:

1. Speak Encouragement

It’s easy to assume this – to overlook speaking encouragement. Speak it and speak it often. When you see improvement, share it with someone. When you see the slightest good, celebrate it like it’s party time. Seriously. Go over and above to breathe encouragement to your team.

Trust me, they are listening.

2. Give Them Opportunity

If you want to raise others up, you need to have high expectations for them. Challenge them to do things they don’t think they can do. Don’t just speak it, give them opportunity to do it. Oftentimes this is exactly what they need to move to the next level.

They need to be given a chance.

There is risk involved here. You can probably do it better, quicker, more efficient, and with less stress. But if you’re always the guy on the front lines, how will anyone else learn to do it?

3. Love What You Do

People who reproduce and raise others up have a passion that burns inside of them. They’re defined by something. There’s a quality about them that attracts others. If you don’t love what you do and give your life to a cause, you won’t attract great people.

If you’re wondering if you love what you do, you probably don’t. Your life is constantly communicating a central passion – a unified focus.

That is what you’ll reproduce.

4. Be What You Want To See

Imagine if your team members adopted your outlook on life, your habits, your prayer schedule, your consistency in God’s Word. Would they succeed? Oftentimes we want to see massive change in others while our own habits suffer. Do some serious self-assessment.

• Am I living my passion?
• Am I reading God’s Word?
• Do I take time to really pray?
• Do I work hard to accomplish difficult things?
• Am I setting goals for my life?

5. Communicate God-sized Vision

No one will rise up and reach their highest potential under a safe, boring leader.

If all you communicate is manageable, easy goals, you’ll lose the imagination of your team. Present a compelling, captivating story to them.

Recently my pastor presented a vision from God to plant 100 churches in the next 10 years. Umm, what? After our church heard that message, many complacent church goers expressed how they wanted to be a part of those churches as youth pastors, children’s pastors, and leaders.

It’s sort of an oxymoron. That’s an impossible vision for us to accomplish. But that is exactly why people rose up. In order for it to happen, God would have to work the impossible through unlikely people. And that’s how God works.

Dream big. Communicate big. Lead your team to do great things.

We need you.

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