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3 Steps to Increasing your Effectiveness as a Leader

The following is an excerpt from the March 15, 2002 edition of To The Point, Arrow's free leadership e-letter.

If your leadership time is spent on busy work that could be delegated then it is time to pause and reevaluate. Here are three steps that can help:

1. Plan a 24-hour retreat spending time in solitude and outlining the projects you would like to be working on – but currently have no time to address. Pray, asking the Lord to instill a renewed view of stewardship of your time. Plan at least half a day each month for this exercise, or the pattern of busyness will repeat itself quickly.

2. Fill out a two-week calendar of your schedule and allow a trusted friend, your spouse or perhaps member of your team to objectively review your use of leadership time.

3. Identify one thing you can stop doing all together, and three things you can delegate to someone else who can do it 85% as well as you could alone. This will help you to let go of some things you might be enmeshed in currently.

Every time you leave the steering wheel of your organization to do tasks that God has prepared others to do, you leave the organization without anyone driving. So it is important to ask, “What would you like be doing if you weren’t so busy?”

"What you are doing is not good. You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone. . You must be the people's representative before God and bring their disputes to him. Teach them… And show them the way to live and the duties they are to perform… select capable people… who fear God, trustworthy people… and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. Have them serve … the people at all times, but have them bring every difficult case to you; the simple cases they can decide themselves.” Exodus 18: 17-22

Leaders can never dodge the difficult cases, so go find those who can be appointed to handle simpler duties.

That’s it - to the point,

Dr. Carson Pue

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