Leadershifting: Changing Gears with the Years
Reggie McNeal
South Carolina Baptist Convention
What are you looking at?
Shifting gears in ____________ and __________________: people
are built to last
• Shifting to a ____________________ economy
• Shifting from focusing on _____________________ to
personal ____________
• Shifting from making __________________ to turning
out _________________
• Shifting from building __________________ into
transforming _____________
• Shifting from _______________ vision
to __________________ vision
Shifting from _____________ worship to _____________ worship
Shifting gears in leadership: what ______________________ are you
trying to solve?
•Converting to collaboration
Collaboration is fundamentally about the way a leader
sees ____________________________
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•Shifting to a ___________________ style appropriate for
the __________________ age
–Managing ___________________ workers
–Managing ______________________ worker
–Knowledge worker congregation includes
•Vision value _______________________
•Celebration of ______________________
•Playing to _________________________
•Openness to _______________________
•Fluid _____________________________
•Highly ________________________ environment
• ________________ and ___________________
• ______________________ integrity of the mission
• Works from a _______________________ economy
- Primary task of leadership is to _______________
corporate ______________
•Taking responsibility for your own development
–Find your ______________________
–Get a ___________________ (or two)
–Look for cultural ____________
–Become __________________________ about communication
–Develop new __________________________ for leadership
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Learning Guide
• This module identified six shifts occurring in culture and mission. Pick two that most challenge you.
–Shift :
•Will require what changes in you?
–Attitude
–Actions
–Shift :
•Will require what changes in you?
–Attitude
–Actions
–Share with your cluster for accountability.
•This module discussed three major shifts in leadership. Pick the two that most challenged you.
–Shift :
•Will require what changes in you?
–Attitude
–Actions
–Shift :
•Will require what changes in you?
–Attitude
–Actions
Learning Guide
•Pick three new metaphors of leadership from the module that speak to you. Why do you resonate with these?
•What two additional metaphors of leadership (not included in the module) can you describe that captures some of your role?
