Episode 221

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The Distinction Between Shepherds & Leaders

March 20

221

Leader Notes

Intro:
  • Goal of this: To Be Helpful to our team & Others
  • 2nd Goal: To Help People Move from one level to another.
  • Thesis: Learning to lead, when you know how to shepherd, is a higher skill set.
Distinctions:
  • Shepherd: Care.
    • Where the word pastor comes from. “To lead to pastures”.
  • Leader: Moving from one place to another.
  • You can be in a leadership position and not moving anyone, just caring.
The Dynamics:
  • Not talking about led poorly andtyrannical
  • Led Well, No Shepherds:
    • High Impact
    • When people go “through it” they’ll drop out!
    • They’ll look back on that season as one of the highest impacts of their life and glad they’re done with it.
  • Only Shepherds:
    • People will be well cared for and supported.
    • We think: People will love it and this is healthiest.
    • Reality: We were meant to grow and we respond to challenges. The organization and people will stall out
The Concern:
  • We’ve so many abuses of toxic leadership that we quite valuing moving people to a better place.
  • We’ve made the mistake of misdefining care as coddling.
  • To let someone sit comfortably in their dysfunction, or missed potential, is neither leading nor shepherding.
Thesis:
  • You should not lead if you do not care about people.
  • If you truly care about people, you need to learn how to lead and not just shepherds.
  • Shepherds make people feel better, leaders are able to make the world better.
  • Shepherds help people feel good, leaders enable people to do something great.

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