OK?” Take a moment soon after the service next level of leadership autonomy. That might away is not a natural thing to do. But Jesus did
to encourage her. Be positive, but don’t shy be to lead a full song, then a full set, then a it—he gave the leadership reins to his followers.
away from constructive feedback. When you full service. Eventually, she might lead her You remember them, right? Those followers
take time to intentionally develop, deploy, and own team. A growing leader requires growing Jesus identified and invited (Matt. 4:18-22),
review, you set up the emerging leader for responsibility. then developed, deployed, and reviewed with
more success the next time. And that’s where
– repeatedly - over three years (Matt. 10 & Luke
Repeat comes in. Simply repeat that process Replacing is a process too. As a leader- 10). Eventually, he released them to go (Matt.
of develop, deploy, and review. For each go- in-training like Kayla gets deeper into your 28) and he replaced himself as the physical, in-
around, work on something that will stretch her development pipeline, you need to be identifying person leader. And those same followers took
a little more. and inviting new potential leaders into that on that leadership role and started identifying
process. Why? Because at some point, you’ll and inviting, developing and deploying, and…
Before you know it, Develop, Deploy, Review, probably experience the bittersweet part of this well, you get the picture.
Repeat will become this upward climbing spiral phase: releasing Kayla to lead elsewhere—at a ________________________________________
towards fully equipped leaders on your team. new campus, or a church plant, or some other *By the way, my team did a crazy-fantastic
church that needs a worship leader. job on Easter Sunday. And I’m still employed.
Now, one of the real measures of a "leader of
leaders" is the next phase.
Bonus.
Now, as that leadership development spiral
continues to climb upward, the pinnacle of
RELEASE/REPLACE this process is when you and I fully replace
At some point, you need to release Kayla to the ourselves as the leader. Giving our leadership
Jon Nicol
The founder of WorshipWorkshop.com and
WorshipTeamCoach.com, two sites that help
worship leaders build strong teams and lead
engaging worship. He lives and serves in Lexington,
Ohio with his wife Shannon and their four kids.
WorshipTeamCoach.com
photo by Blue Amber
May 2018
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