Four Secrets of Great Team-Based Leadership

Found this article on Team Building (there is a difference between a "team" and a "workgroup"). Below I share the bullet points and a link to the full article. 

Four Secrets of Great Team-Based Leadership
Leadership as a team makes ministry enjoyable and effective.
By Dave Ferguson

Here are four secrets of great team based leadership:

THE SECRET ABOUT THE CAUSE—"We are committed to the cause first and each other second."

Great leadership teams are always clear about the cause. There is no great team that is not clear about the cause. There is no good team that is not clear about the cause. A lot of other stuff may get fuzzy, but the cause is always very clear. 

THE SECRET ABOUT COMMUNITY—"We don't know when we are working and when we are playing."

I love the way Eric Bramlett describes working at CCC; "working here feels like recess". I can't tell the difference between working and playing; they feel the same!

When we are looking for new staff, my team mates have been coached to consider the three C's of character, competency and chemistry. For us, chemistry is always the first priority.

THE SECRET CHARACTERISTICS – "We may look crazy or chaotic to you, but there is a method to our madness."

One of the secrets of a great leadership team is that in their relentless pursuit of the cause they become a community with characteristics that are exactly how God made them. This may appear crazy or chaotic to the outsider, but there is a unique method to their madness.

THE SECRET FOR CREATING CULTURE—"We REALLY are going to change the world."

It is the lead team more than any other team that will create the culture and the ethos for a church. When you have a lead team that is clear about the cause; willing to die for the cause; and where serving feels like recess you have created a church culture where people start to believe that we REALLY are going to change the world!

Dave Ferguson serves as a resource for other churches and leaders seeking to expand through multiple church sites and provides visionary leadership for the NewThing Network (www.newthing.org).

Source: Four Secrets of Great Team-Based Leadership - BuildingChurchLeaders.com