Everyone Doing Their Part

Eph 4:16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.(NIV)
Being in a profession where traditionally twenty percent of the people do eighty percent of the work poses some very interesting problems. A very important characteristic for a leader in this type of environment is the ability to create buy in. That is helping everyone to realize that they are a part of things, in fact, a very important part of things. This requires a leader to be able to discern what gifts or talents people have and then being able to get them contributing those talents to the team as a whole. In order to do this, the people need to feel believed in and therefore empowered. This characteristic can be seen, when you go into an environment and see that everyone is involved, but not just involved but enjoying their involvement.I would say, that this is something that I really try to do. I really try to look at everyone and see their strengths. See the gifts and talents that they have and then help them to see how they can use their talents within our church. My belief is that everyone needs to participate, everyone needs to be involved. Everyone, has something to offer and when you get everyone involved and offering, it creates and very loving and happy family environment. People need to be needed, they want to know that they fit and that they are important. When we can enable people as leaders, when we can learn to see the attributes that they bring, incredible things happen.