Willow Creek GLS 2013
Becca and I spent the day today at the Global Leadership Summit in the satellite campus here in Colorado Springs. Every year, many Compassion employees go to the summit, and Becca was able to get a really good discount ticket as well. So we are soaking up some amazing teaching from Bill Hybels, Patrick Leoncini, Liz Wiseman, Bob Goff, Chris Brown, and more. Tomorrow we return for the second day.
I see a lot of great things for improving my ministry service at Celebrate Recovery in our church, as well as at my regular job at Compassion. It’s a blessing to be filled up and fed by great leaders and experts. These conferences are pretty common nowadays. But, I do enjoy the rapid and intense pace of information download. And, oddly enough I enjoy taking notes, something I rarely enjoyed in school.
One of the hardest sessions was asking the audience to consider if they are a multiplier or a diminished and to think about the leaders you’ve served under in the past. It was challenging to go back to consider difficult experiences with some managers and teachers. And to think about my own default attitudes that could lead me to diminish others unintentionally. I have noticed the power and value that I feel when other people believe in me and trust me. Trust is a powerful tool. As is the tactic of asking questions rather than giving orders.