Team Leadership Development can be challenging, especially in faith based settings. Here are some tips I to assist you in the process of developing leaders who empower others to lead.

1. iLEAD
Maximizing Your Ability as a Team Leader
D. Kelley

2. iLEAD
Maximizing your Ability as a Team Leader
Great leaders serve their teams by:
Listening in order to learn
Energizing their teams
Assessing how things are
Developing others

3. Listen

4. Learn from others
“None of us is as smart
as all of us.”
Japanese Proverb

5. Learn with others
Leaders are learners – we never arrive at a level of
knowledge and expertise where it is safe to simply stop
learning

6. Listen to yourself
“There is a person with whom you spend more time
than any other, a person who has more influence
over you, and more ability to interfere with or to
support your growth than anyone else. This ever-
present companion is your own self.”
– Dr. Pamela Butler

7. Energize

8. Encourage your team
Celebrate what your
team does, but
more importantly
appreciate who
they are!

9. Value Every Team
Member’s Contribution
Say this a lot!

10. Call to something greater
Something Greater [Video]
“The truest test of leadership is leading volunteers.”
- Tony Morgan

11. Be Enthusiastic
If you are not
excited about the
work that you get
to do for God
don’t expect your
team to be.

12. Assess

13. Evaluate Often
What are we
doing well?
What could use
some tweaking?

14. I can’t hear
you!
Communicate Clearly

15. What is your dream? What one thing are you
hopeful for as you lead your team?
Dream

16. Develop

17. Train/Equip
Most people want to do well at
the things they attempt doing.

18. Share the work!
“When you try
to do it all
yourself, you
are signing up
for burnout.”
– Jim Wideman

19. Delegate
Jesus with the disciples:
1 He trained them
2 He sent them to recruit and train others
3 He empowered them to care or others
- Tony Morgan

20. Expect blunders and use them as creative
opportunities and learning opportunities.

21. Disengage
“Living on limited rest gives the world a limited version of who
you are.” – Kirk Byron Jones, Say Yes to Grace

22. “When you rest : You maximize your energy; Handle
the unexpected better; and Enhance your
ability to make good decisions”
- Kirk Byron Jones, Say Yes to Grace

23. Embracing Limitations
CAN Do
You have the ability to do it, but it is not yours to do
TO Do
Needs to get done by someone (not necessarily you)
WILL Do
Tasks you are committed to doing & only you can do them

24. Tools Matter
Toodledo – www.toodledo.com
Evernote – www.evernote.com
Say Yes to Grace – Dr. Kirk Byron Jones

25. Effective Leaders
1 Listen in order to learn/grow
2 Energize those they serve
3 Assess their ministries often
4 Develop other leaders

26. D.Kelley
attheintersexion@gmail.com
iLEAD: Maximizing Abilities

27. Credits
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SophieG
~Brenda-Starr~
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nicole.pierce.photography ♥
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