W25D4 - Productivity
June 25, 2014
"Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress. Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers" - 1 Timothy 4:15-16.
Leaders are role models which means what they do and who they are both significant teaching behaviors that others tend to emulate. Thus, leaders are the standard bearers for the organization and set the tone for ethics, attitude, and work habits. In today's passage, Paul urged Timothy to make progress by giving himself wholly to the work at hand and to do so publicly so everyone around him would see his progress. Leaders must also model humility, but must do it in a public kind of way so followers will know what that humility looks like in action while viewing leaders as they respond to the pressures and distractions of daily work.
LEADERSHIP STEP: Your Step today is to open up your life for the benefit of others. While everything in you might want to hide your growth, productivity, and decision-making process, you have a responsibility to work in a glass office so others can see into it. How can you do this? A few examples would be teaching at your staff meetings, holding special teaching sessions via video or in person, having regular times of questions and answers, writing a book, starting a blog, or being more transparent with those you coach or mentor.
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