CRM - Empowering Leaders

All of us want to know that we are part of a team, that we are working alongside a group of people who share the load and who are committed to our well being as much as they are committed to the task at hand - that we have people who are "watching my back." Granted, people are wired differently and some need more relational support than others, but no one wants to be sent out to play a position to then be ignored.

Meeting this relational need means creating time for encouragement, time for shared learning and growth. Ministry is about the work that we do and about the people we do it with. Unfortunately, most senior leaders worry more about the production of their people than about the people who produce.

Without adequate relationships... 

• We lose perspective... especially in the midst of demanding responsibility. 
  
• Mentoring becomes formal, often wooden, rather than natural and simple. 
  
• People can be destabilized or demoralized by problems. 
  
• People focus on the task alone and miss God's unique and ongoing work in them as they serve. 
  
• People reproduce the task-driven approach to the work at hand among those they lead, rather than truly developing the people they lead.