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0 00:00:08,540 --> 00:00:08,740 -- Yeah, 1 00:00:17,540 --> 00:00:22,250 -- this is lead 12 12 a podcast on christ centered 2 00:00:22,250 --> 00:00:26,540 -- leadership based on romans 12 12 rejoice in hope, 3 00:00:26,540 --> 00:00:29,750 -- be patient tribulation, be constant in prayer. 4 00:00:30,140 --> 00:00:32,750 -- Thanks for listening. Here's Dave and chris 5 00:00:33,340 --> 00:00:37,450 -- the greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. 6 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:42,770 -- He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. Ronald Reagan. 7 00:00:42,780 --> 00:00:45,950 -- That's a beautiful quote, I love that and it's so true 8 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:48,360 -- a man, it is true. And I think 9 00:00:48,740 --> 00:00:52,920 -- one of the things that we have to look at as leaders is how do we motivate 10 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:59,270 -- people to get on board to see the mission at hand and get excited about it? 11 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:03,860 -- And sometimes that's easy, Sometimes that's hard as a minister. 12 00:01:03,860 --> 00:01:06,720 -- I find that to be a little easier because I know 13 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:11,060 -- what motivates me and that's jesus christ and when that's what 14 00:01:11,940 --> 00:01:13,220 -- then you can do more things. 15 00:01:13,230 --> 00:01:16,950 -- Yeah, -- and that's a great quote, I want to remember that one. That's a very good quote 16 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:19,030 -- Ronald Reagan. There you go. 17 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:19,920 -- He had a lot of them. 18 00:01:19,930 --> 00:01:21,390 -- He did absolutely. 19 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:24,760 -- So Dave last week we talked about emotional intelligence and 20 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:27,620 -- that wrapped up our discussion of the trade based leaderships. 21 00:01:27,620 --> 00:01:31,150 -- If you were going to build a leader based on personality traits. Right? 22 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:34,320 -- So now we're going to start talking about skills based leadership. 23 00:01:34,330 --> 00:01:37,560 -- What are the skills that someone needs to be a good leader. 24 00:01:37,940 --> 00:01:39,770 -- These are things that they can learn. 25 00:01:39,780 --> 00:01:40,600 -- Absolutely. 26 00:01:40,610 --> 00:01:45,160 -- So this is good, this is good stuff. I hope you, 27 00:01:45,540 --> 00:01:47,110 -- I hope we are helping you. 28 00:01:47,110 --> 00:01:50,320 -- I hope that we're teaching you one thing that chris and I 29 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:53,350 -- want to make sure you know on our website you can take. 30 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:55,680 -- Um I think you got a quiz that you were putting on 31 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:57,020 -- their last week, 32 00:01:57,020 --> 00:01:59,220 -- we had a quiz for the emotional intelligence and 33 00:01:59,220 --> 00:02:01,560 -- this week we've got a quiz for the skills based 34 00:02:01,940 --> 00:02:02,930 -- leadership theory. 35 00:02:02,940 --> 00:02:05,890 -- You can log in to take the test and see how 36 00:02:05,890 --> 00:02:08,360 -- you rate with the skills that are important to leaders. 37 00:02:08,370 --> 00:02:09,699 -- We'd love to get to know you. 38 00:02:09,699 --> 00:02:12,640 -- So give us that opportunity and we'll do all 39 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:15,850 -- we can to help you and your leadership journey. 40 00:02:15,860 --> 00:02:20,660 -- That's absolutely right at their lead. 12:12.com. 41 00:02:20,940 --> 00:02:22,860 -- So what does lead leadership? 42 00:02:23,010 --> 00:02:24,430 -- Skills based leadership? 43 00:02:24,430 --> 00:02:29,860 -- Give us skills based leadership teaches us and gives us four things. 44 00:02:29,870 --> 00:02:33,960 -- It provides a way to delineate or identify the skills of a leader. 45 00:02:34,340 --> 00:02:36,860 -- In other words, what skills are important to be a leader. 46 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:40,230 -- It applies to all leaders and all organizations, 47 00:02:40,230 --> 00:02:42,810 -- meaning the lowest level leader to the highest level leader. 48 00:02:42,820 --> 00:02:44,660 -- These same skills, apply 49 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:47,340 -- the skills inventory can provide insights 50 00:02:47,340 --> 00:02:49,860 -- into the individuals leadership competencies. 51 00:02:49,870 --> 00:02:53,660 -- It can tell us, in other words, if you're good somewhere, if you need help somewhere 52 00:02:54,140 --> 00:02:57,550 -- And the test scores allow the leaders to learn about areas when they can 53 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:00,840 -- seek further training and better themselves in a good way to do that. 54 00:03:00,850 --> 00:03:02,350 -- Lead 12:12.com. 55 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:04,100 -- Hey, there's a 56 00:03:04,100 --> 00:03:08,480 -- plug. Maybe we should have did this 57 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:10,960 -- one. Uh 58 00:03:11,340 --> 00:03:15,580 -- My daughter said we used to many last time we're gonna even use more? 59 00:03:15,590 --> 00:03:20,250 -- Yeah, -- yeah, we are so excited, 60 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:23,800 -- take that. Thank 61 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:24,610 -- you. Thank you very 62 00:03:24,610 --> 00:03:25,920 -- much, tip your waiters 63 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:26,770 -- And waitresses. 64 00:03:26,780 --> 00:03:31,040 -- Okay, so you get me going. 65 00:03:31,050 --> 00:03:34,710 -- The skills approach is predicated on the notion that leaders 66 00:03:34,710 --> 00:03:37,640 -- possessed certain abilities that enable him or her to lead, 67 00:03:37,650 --> 00:03:39,500 -- makes that makes common sense, right? 68 00:03:39,510 --> 00:03:44,360 -- It does. This was developed by a person named Robert Katz way back in 1955, 69 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:46,550 -- wow With his studies, 70 00:03:46,550 --> 00:03:48,950 -- he determined that there's three skills that the 71 00:03:48,950 --> 00:03:51,960 -- effective leader must have and must continually developed. 72 00:03:52,340 --> 00:03:57,020 -- Those are technical skills, human skills and conceptual skills. 73 00:03:57,030 --> 00:04:00,000 -- So the key that you're saying there that I'm getting is you 74 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,930 -- have to grow and john john Maxwell says change is inevitable, 75 00:04:04,940 --> 00:04:08,920 -- growth is optional, so you're going to change, 76 00:04:08,930 --> 00:04:12,990 -- it's up to you if you want to grow and you've got to have that desire, 77 00:04:12,990 --> 00:04:14,360 -- you gotta have that want 78 00:04:14,540 --> 00:04:17,230 -- um, it's with anything and I gotta be honest with you. 79 00:04:17,230 --> 00:04:18,950 -- Sometimes I think we just, 80 00:04:18,959 --> 00:04:24,810 -- we kind of get stale and we forget that we still got to work on these skills that 81 00:04:24,810 --> 00:04:29,550 -- God has given us to be better leaders to help each other to build each other up. 82 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:35,260 -- You know, it's all about foundational building and once you do that, it can change 83 00:04:35,540 --> 00:04:38,150 -- your perspective on anything when you're 84 00:04:38,540 --> 00:04:42,490 -- encouraging and building someone up and that's really one of the 85 00:04:42,490 --> 00:04:44,750 -- things that we want to do for you there listening, 86 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:50,930 -- how can we encourage, how can we build, how can we help you in your ministry or in your, 87 00:04:50,940 --> 00:04:55,220 -- your job or in your whatever to make you uh, 88 00:04:55,230 --> 00:04:58,420 -- see that you can do better for people and become a better leader. 89 00:04:58,420 --> 00:04:58,870 -- Does that make 90 00:04:58,870 --> 00:05:00,070 -- sense? It makes perfect sense. 91 00:05:00,070 --> 00:05:03,660 -- And I think the way john Maxwell said that it was so beautiful, 92 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:05,110 -- growth is optional. 93 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:07,910 -- How many times have someone got a decent job and they 94 00:05:07,910 --> 00:05:09,720 -- decided this is as far as I'm going to go, 95 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:11,460 -- I don't need to improve anymore, but that's 96 00:05:11,460 --> 00:05:12,770 -- never true and it's going 97 00:05:12,770 --> 00:05:14,710 -- to change it is. 98 00:05:14,710 --> 00:05:15,650 -- Yeah, it's always 99 00:05:15,650 --> 00:05:19,790 -- just a fact and whether it's ministry, whether it's business, 100 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:20,960 -- whether it's 101 00:05:21,540 --> 00:05:24,240 -- weight lifting, whatever it is, 102 00:05:24,250 --> 00:05:26,810 -- something about that's going to change and be a 103 00:05:26,810 --> 00:05:28,880 -- little bit different and you can learn how to, 104 00:05:28,890 --> 00:05:30,060 -- to, to, 105 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,220 -- to grow better. Is that a right term? 106 00:05:33,220 --> 00:05:35,320 -- I don't know if that's the right term, but grow, 107 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:36,070 -- we'll go with that. 108 00:05:36,070 --> 00:05:37,350 -- Yeah, but 109 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:41,350 -- yeah, yeah, ladies and gentlemen, 110 00:05:42,140 --> 00:05:45,860 -- I want to grow better. That's my t shirt for this week, 111 00:05:46,540 --> 00:05:50,160 -- Dave, I'm Gonna Grow Back 2021. 112 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:50,730 -- There we go. 113 00:05:50,740 --> 00:05:54,060 -- Ladies and gentlemen, so let's talk about these three skill sets, 114 00:05:54,070 --> 00:05:57,190 -- let's start with technical skills, what what is technical skills, 115 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:01,660 -- obviously it's the knowledge and proficiency of, of a particular field, 116 00:06:01,940 --> 00:06:04,080 -- but this field has to relate to what you're doing, 117 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:07,460 -- like if I were going to be a supervisor of engineers 118 00:06:07,740 --> 00:06:11,000 -- and I happen to play a great heart or something that 119 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:12,920 -- wouldn't be a good technical skill for me to have. 120 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:15,120 -- I would have to have technical skill in engineering to 121 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:17,160 -- be able to understand what they're doing and help them. 122 00:06:17,740 --> 00:06:21,600 -- Not that I wouldn't want to hear you play the harp. 123 00:06:21,610 --> 00:06:23,270 -- Maybe I should have said harmonica, 124 00:06:23,280 --> 00:06:24,740 -- I just don't see 125 00:06:24,740 --> 00:06:26,980 -- you playing a harm That that would be, 126 00:06:26,990 --> 00:06:28,350 -- I don't have that skill. 127 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:33,170 -- You -- always think of heaven a little like that, don't you? Yeah. Playing heart. 128 00:06:33,180 --> 00:06:36,390 -- But I've never pictured you to be that person. That was amazing. 129 00:06:36,390 --> 00:06:37,410 -- That's not me. 130 00:06:37,420 --> 00:06:45,160 -- Well, I 131 00:06:45,540 --> 00:06:45,740 -- Yeah, 132 00:06:46,340 --> 00:06:48,680 -- thank you. So we're back to technical skills. 133 00:06:48,690 --> 00:06:54,100 -- Technic technical skills is the only of the skill sets that interacts with objects. 134 00:06:54,110 --> 00:06:56,740 -- This is one where you have to be good with whatever you're doing. 135 00:06:56,740 --> 00:07:01,070 -- If it's if it's flipping hamburgers, which I did, that if it's fighting, which I did, 136 00:07:01,070 --> 00:07:04,880 -- that if it's leading people, that's something that I've done as well. 137 00:07:04,890 --> 00:07:08,860 -- But the technical skill in this area is interacting with objects. 138 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,060 -- Amen -- the technical abilities are critical 139 00:07:13,540 --> 00:07:18,550 -- for the entry and mid level management when you're the top level manager, 140 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:20,960 -- technical skills is not as important, 141 00:07:21,540 --> 00:07:24,060 -- but if you're managing directly managing people 142 00:07:24,070 --> 00:07:26,510 -- or managing people that manage people. 143 00:07:26,510 --> 00:07:29,730 -- Mid level manager technical skills are very important and the last one for the 144 00:07:29,730 --> 00:07:34,040 -- technical skills is what we just discussed that upper and senior level managers. 145 00:07:34,050 --> 00:07:36,750 -- Technical skills are not as important because you're more concerned 146 00:07:36,750 --> 00:07:40,160 -- with the big picture than the individual jobs everyone does. 147 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:47,590 -- Let's move on to human skills. Human skills is the capacity to interact with others. 148 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:49,250 -- If you have good human skills, 149 00:07:49,250 --> 00:07:52,310 -- you're able to establish a trusting environment and where the employees 150 00:07:52,310 --> 00:07:55,930 -- facilities and they're empowered to contribute and do their best. 151 00:07:55,940 --> 00:08:00,750 -- Yeah, this one I think I feel more comfortable in, if I'm honest with you, as far as 152 00:08:01,140 --> 00:08:02,610 -- my leadership skills, 153 00:08:02,610 --> 00:08:04,310 -- I feel kind of falls in that 154 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:05,620 -- you have fantastic human 155 00:08:05,620 --> 00:08:07,440 -- skills and here's the best part checks 156 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:07,870 -- in the mail. 157 00:08:07,870 --> 00:08:08,760 -- Thanks. 158 00:08:08,770 --> 00:08:10,950 -- You know, 159 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:14,900 -- it -- is the human skills is the only skill 160 00:08:14,900 --> 00:08:18,650 -- set that is critical at all three management levels, 161 00:08:18,650 --> 00:08:19,890 -- lower middle and senior. 162 00:08:19,890 --> 00:08:23,460 -- So human management skills you could argue are the most important. 163 00:08:23,540 --> 00:08:28,070 -- Well, you you can't motivate people if you don't understand 164 00:08:28,070 --> 00:08:28,930 -- that. So true. 165 00:08:28,940 --> 00:08:30,240 -- Absolutely, so true. 166 00:08:30,250 --> 00:08:31,520 -- So there you go, 167 00:08:31,530 --> 00:08:32,720 -- how many times have you heard that 168 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:35,659 -- the beatings will continue until morale improved? 169 00:08:35,669 --> 00:08:37,270 -- There it is, that's true. 170 00:08:37,270 --> 00:08:39,950 -- I mean, we need to understand that, 171 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:43,140 -- that the best way we can understand our leadership, 172 00:08:43,140 --> 00:08:47,060 -- those who are leading is to understand those who we are leading, 173 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:53,650 -- um try absolutely, you know, to have empathy, to understand them to, to 174 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:58,550 -- learn how to encourage them in their walking in their journey. 175 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:04,260 -- Human skills, that's that's probably if you've ever had a good boss, 176 00:09:04,740 --> 00:09:06,180 -- they've had high human skills, 177 00:09:06,180 --> 00:09:09,060 -- chances are no matter if they have good technical skills, 178 00:09:09,060 --> 00:09:12,670 -- if they don't have the human skills, you wouldn't consider them a good person, 179 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:13,560 -- I got you. 180 00:09:13,940 --> 00:09:16,710 -- So let's move on to the last one, the conceptual skills, 181 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:20,200 -- this is the capacity to work with concepts and ideas, 182 00:09:20,210 --> 00:09:22,080 -- these are the people that create visions, 183 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:26,070 -- strategic plans and they establish a course of action and the higher 184 00:09:26,070 --> 00:09:28,960 -- you go up the career ladder and the more important this becomes, 185 00:09:29,340 --> 00:09:31,700 -- so as you can imagine as you climb the career ladder, 186 00:09:31,710 --> 00:09:35,040 -- technical skills become less and less important to hire you go 187 00:09:35,050 --> 00:09:38,850 -- and conceptual skills become more and more important as you go, 188 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:43,830 -- That makes sense. It does, it makes total sense. 189 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:47,120 -- So here's an interesting concept about the skills approach, 190 00:09:47,130 --> 00:09:49,860 -- there's different combinations for different levels of 191 00:09:49,860 --> 00:09:51,840 -- leadership and we went through this briefly, 192 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:53,340 -- but let's hit on this a little bit more. 193 00:09:53,350 --> 00:09:54,170 -- For example, 194 00:09:54,170 --> 00:09:56,440 -- a good supervisor has to have very high 195 00:09:56,440 --> 00:09:59,560 -- technical skills along with very high human skills, 196 00:09:59,740 --> 00:10:02,390 -- but the conceptual skills doesn't matter so much, 197 00:10:02,390 --> 00:10:04,960 -- they don't need to be able to set the company's vision 198 00:10:05,340 --> 00:10:08,300 -- or make sure that everyone in the company is on the 199 00:10:08,300 --> 00:10:10,200 -- same page and we're all fighting for the same thing, 200 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:12,860 -- that's the people higher up the chain of responsibility. 201 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:18,210 -- Like we're a good manager needs to have moderately high technical skills, 202 00:10:18,210 --> 00:10:20,460 -- not as much as the low level manager 203 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:24,930 -- and moderately high conceptual skills, but not as much as the top level manager, 204 00:10:24,940 --> 00:10:27,490 -- but they have to have excellent human skills, 205 00:10:27,490 --> 00:10:30,400 -- a middle level manager has to have great communication, 206 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:34,270 -- has to be able to build environment for people feel trust and empowered, 207 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:37,610 -- that's all that it takes to be a good mid level manager 208 00:10:37,620 --> 00:10:39,050 -- and let me ask this again, 209 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:42,310 -- these are all things that we can get better at correct. 210 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:45,860 -- Absolutely, and we just have to learn how to strive to 211 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:50,210 -- to get our people skills and to learn these these concepts. 212 00:10:50,210 --> 00:10:53,960 -- I think it will change everything if you have a desire to do that 213 00:10:53,970 --> 00:10:58,920 -- and doesn't mean that you have to get your PhD like chris I mean, 214 00:10:58,930 --> 00:10:59,960 -- don't get me wrong, 215 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:01,170 -- he's got it, 216 00:11:01,170 --> 00:11:03,190 -- he's it's 217 00:11:03,190 --> 00:11:09,090 -- pretty impressive, but thank you, that's funny, 218 00:11:09,100 --> 00:11:13,310 -- but the desire to want to grow to want to learn to 219 00:11:13,310 --> 00:11:17,850 -- want to be a better leader just comes from that heartfelt, 220 00:11:17,860 --> 00:11:20,620 -- I'm going to do better, I'm gonna be better. 221 00:11:20,630 --> 00:11:21,950 -- Um and I think 222 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:23,880 -- you have to have that passion, 223 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:28,750 -- you have to have that one and that's what I want to encourage you today is um 224 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:32,190 -- a lot of this leadership stuff is just desire. 225 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:36,460 -- If you have that desire, I think you can you can step it up and learn, 226 00:11:37,140 --> 00:11:37,440 -- you know, 227 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:41,260 -- that the first step would obviously be to learn the areas that you 228 00:11:41,260 --> 00:11:43,960 -- need help with and you can do online quizzes to do that, 229 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:46,580 -- you can get people to give you feedback if you have 230 00:11:46,580 --> 00:11:48,460 -- people that you trust and will be honest with you, 231 00:11:48,460 --> 00:11:53,310 -- ask them what areas you need help with, whether it's the technical skills, 232 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:55,260 -- if it's the human skills or if it's a 233 00:11:55,260 --> 00:11:58,460 -- conceptual skills and those can easily be improved on. 234 00:11:58,540 --> 00:12:01,960 -- You -- can't let your feelings get hurt and I struggle with this. 235 00:12:01,970 --> 00:12:05,740 -- If I'm honest, sometimes if somebody says, well you need to do this better, 236 00:12:05,740 --> 00:12:08,560 -- I just want to say, well you need to get a haircut. 237 00:12:09,140 --> 00:12:09,350 -- Mhm. 238 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:11,310 -- That's not right. 239 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:14,330 -- You got to be able to not where you're, you know, 240 00:12:14,340 --> 00:12:18,080 -- chris you mean you as much as said in that last paragraph, 241 00:12:18,090 --> 00:12:21,960 -- you have to understand the importance of 242 00:12:22,340 --> 00:12:25,010 -- it's okay that you're not okay, 243 00:12:25,020 --> 00:12:29,120 -- you're not doing this as good as if you're doing it as good as you can. 244 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:31,930 -- There's still something else. You can change its 245 00:12:31,930 --> 00:12:33,170 -- constant growth 246 00:12:33,180 --> 00:12:33,860 -- again. 247 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:36,450 -- Growth is essential. 248 00:12:36,460 --> 00:12:41,460 -- Um It's one of the most important things that we have to desire to do. So anyway, 249 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:42,560 -- there's my two 250 00:12:42,560 --> 00:12:43,620 -- cents were very good. 251 00:12:43,620 --> 00:12:47,460 -- Yeah, and it was all good stuff could begin on that. Thank you. 252 00:12:47,470 --> 00:12:50,790 -- The last of the skills combination is for the top 253 00:12:50,790 --> 00:12:54,320 -- manager and a good top manager needs very high human 254 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:57,560 -- skills because they have to interact with everyone from the 255 00:12:57,560 --> 00:13:00,760 -- board of directors down to the Trustees to everyone. 256 00:13:00,940 --> 00:13:05,500 -- They also need high conceptual skills, this is where they do the visions, 257 00:13:05,500 --> 00:13:06,360 -- the missions, 258 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:09,980 -- the planning everything that's gonna be happening and they have to be able 259 00:13:09,980 --> 00:13:13,570 -- to get the employees buy in and everyone's on the same page, 260 00:13:13,580 --> 00:13:18,850 -- but the top level manager does not necessarily have to have high technical skills. 261 00:13:18,940 --> 00:13:21,910 -- They don't need to know the nuts and bolts of how things get done. 262 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:23,650 -- They concentrate on the bigger picture 263 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:29,760 -- motivators, -- motivators is exactly a way to put that. 264 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:31,390 -- Yes, they need to be the cheerleaders. 265 00:13:31,390 --> 00:13:34,610 -- The coach's the people that make you want to get out there and do your best. 266 00:13:34,610 --> 00:13:34,950 -- Yeah. 267 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:38,960 -- And scripturally who you would want to look to and learn from his Barnabas. 268 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:41,610 -- He was absolutely son of encouragement. 269 00:13:41,620 --> 00:13:47,160 -- You know, the things that he did was he built, he built people up. He would, he would 270 00:13:47,540 --> 00:13:53,300 -- teach them and love on them and show them grace and God blessed his ministry. 271 00:13:53,300 --> 00:13:58,280 -- And he was called the son of encouragement. So that's a pretty good name. Yes, it is. 272 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:01,350 -- You can call me that. I'd be okay with it. So 273 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:03,850 -- I've been called a lot worse. Yeah. 274 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:07,090 -- We're not going to get all the different names that we can go in there. 275 00:14:07,090 --> 00:14:12,780 -- A son of Yeah, no, let's go. A son of encourage 276 00:14:12,790 --> 00:14:14,110 -- right? 277 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:14,520 -- There you 278 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:14,910 -- go. 279 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:17,830 -- So dave, let's say that this is really resonated with you. 280 00:14:17,830 --> 00:14:20,580 -- You've decided that of all the leadership theories. 281 00:14:20,580 --> 00:14:25,250 -- You're going to embrace the skills based leadership theory, the skills approach. 282 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:27,450 -- What are the advantages of this? 283 00:14:27,450 --> 00:14:31,390 -- The first one is this was the very first approach to 284 00:14:31,390 --> 00:14:36,930 -- conceptualize and structure the leadership process around skills before this, 285 00:14:36,930 --> 00:14:39,570 -- we knew leaders had skills but we didn't know what they were, 286 00:14:39,570 --> 00:14:40,960 -- it was it wasn't important. 287 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:43,250 -- This was the very first one to say these are 288 00:14:43,250 --> 00:14:45,140 -- the skills that are important to be a leader. 289 00:14:45,140 --> 00:14:48,140 -- It was groundbreaking in the time. That's amazing. Yeah. 290 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:48,560 Mm 291 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:53,380 -- One of the second advantages is by defining the leadership in terms of abilities. 292 00:14:53,390 --> 00:14:57,640 -- Suddenly leadership becomes available to everyone if you weren't a leader, 293 00:14:57,650 --> 00:14:59,010 -- but you wanted to be a leader. 294 00:14:59,020 --> 00:15:01,380 -- Here's the skills you work on now. You're a leader. 295 00:15:01,390 --> 00:15:02,750 -- Yeah. And I think 296 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:07,360 -- that's something that I think any of us can, can catch on if we want it. 297 00:15:07,370 --> 00:15:09,260 -- Um you just gotta have again 298 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:12,080 -- desire, -- desire is it? 299 00:15:12,090 --> 00:15:13,510 -- And the last advantage, 300 00:15:13,510 --> 00:15:16,140 -- there's a lot of other advantages of the last major advantages. 301 00:15:16,140 --> 00:15:19,670 -- This provides a comprehensive view of leadership that takes into 302 00:15:19,670 --> 00:15:23,450 -- account a wide variety of factors like problem solving skills, 303 00:15:23,450 --> 00:15:25,130 -- social judgment skills, 304 00:15:25,140 --> 00:15:28,280 -- So many of the skills fall under these three categories 305 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:30,460 -- and it's easy to see where you need to improve. 306 00:15:30,740 --> 00:15:36,860 -- So what are some of the pitfalls the criticisms of skills based leadership? 307 00:15:37,540 --> 00:15:40,060 -- The first is the approach breath 308 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:43,830 -- it definitely extends beyond the boundaries of leadership 309 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:46,990 -- which makes it less precise and more general, 310 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,800 -- Like if I say you need to improve your human skills? 311 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:51,440 -- Well that's a broad category. 312 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:52,930 -- What do you need to do 313 00:15:52,940 --> 00:15:55,500 -- specifically how do I exactly that 314 00:15:55,500 --> 00:15:56,910 -- give me a checklist? 315 00:15:56,910 --> 00:16:00,360 -- Abc how do I get there if this doesn't provide that? 316 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:03,800 -- The second is the predictive value is limited, 317 00:16:03,810 --> 00:16:08,480 -- it doesn't explain how these skills translate into leadership performance. 318 00:16:08,490 --> 00:16:12,740 -- We know that leaders have these skills, but if you improve your leadership, 319 00:16:12,740 --> 00:16:15,270 -- let's say you've decided to approve your human skills, 320 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:17,600 -- we don't know how that's going to affect your leadership. 321 00:16:17,610 --> 00:16:20,080 -- We can't say One plus one equals two. 322 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:21,310 -- You improve your leadership, 323 00:16:21,310 --> 00:16:24,110 -- you're going to get new people that doesn't work that way. 324 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:28,500 -- So sometimes you just gotta keep trying. Exactly. 325 00:16:28,510 --> 00:16:32,960 -- And the last criticism is the individual with trade 326 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:36,020 -- like characteristics are included in this skill model. 327 00:16:36,030 --> 00:16:39,490 -- It's very similar to trade based except this is skills 328 00:16:39,490 --> 00:16:41,890 -- is not personality traits and things that you do, 329 00:16:41,900 --> 00:16:43,550 -- but they're so similar 330 00:16:43,740 --> 00:16:45,200 -- that sometimes they overlap. 331 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:45,930 -- For example, 332 00:16:45,930 --> 00:16:48,280 -- human skills could actually be a trait you were 333 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:50,460 -- born with and not something that you worked on, 334 00:16:50,940 --> 00:16:51,470 Gotcha 335 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,210 -- and that is skill based leadership. 336 00:16:55,220 --> 00:17:00,760 -- So do you find this one with what you do it with the work that you do? 337 00:17:01,140 --> 00:17:04,640 -- Do you apply this pretty well or is it something that's not 338 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:06,599 -- as easy as some of the other things we talked about? 339 00:17:06,609 --> 00:17:08,410 -- It's one of the easier ones, 340 00:17:08,420 --> 00:17:11,099 -- The trade based one can be a little more difficult and later on as 341 00:17:11,099 --> 00:17:15,880 -- we get into the more advanced style leaderships you'll see that this this one skill 342 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:20,089 -- based skills approach goes hand in hand with so many others that if you 343 00:17:20,089 --> 00:17:23,760 -- want to be that transformational leader or you want to be that servant leader, 344 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,560 -- well you need to improve your human skills or 345 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:29,010 -- you may need to improve your conceptual skills. 346 00:17:29,010 --> 00:17:34,140 -- In some cases this one is is a good building block to start with and before we 347 00:17:34,140 --> 00:17:37,640 -- can get to some of the more advanced theories we really needed to tackle this one. 348 00:17:38,110 --> 00:17:39,060 -- Okay, 349 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:43,340 -- Well listen, we are so glad that you've taken your time to listen to us. 350 00:17:43,350 --> 00:17:46,560 -- I want to encourage you with some scripture out of Philippians four 351 00:17:46,740 --> 00:17:49,560 -- Verse 12, Paul's kind of kind of 352 00:17:50,140 --> 00:17:52,370 -- he's having a rough time and this is what he says, 353 00:17:52,370 --> 00:17:56,170 -- I know what it is to be in need and I know what it is to have plenty. 354 00:17:56,540 --> 00:17:59,630 -- I have learned the secret of being content in 355 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:03,410 -- any and every situation whether well fed or hungry, 356 00:18:03,420 --> 00:18:06,240 -- whether living in plenty or in one, 357 00:18:06,250 --> 00:18:09,720 -- I can do all things through him who gives me strength now? 358 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:13,400 -- We quote 13 a lot because it's an easy fix. 359 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:18,460 -- But he says, even when I'm hungry, even when things aren't going away, even when 360 00:18:18,740 --> 00:18:22,850 -- none of the people that I'm leading following my direction, 361 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:26,940 -- I can still find contentment when I am in 362 00:18:26,940 --> 00:18:30,090 -- the center of God's will and that's jesus christ. 363 00:18:30,100 --> 00:18:34,900 -- So we hope that you can thank you, we want to pray for you. 364 00:18:34,910 --> 00:18:37,860 -- We want to we want to help you develop as a leader. 365 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:40,890 -- Please give us that opportunity. Thanks for listening. 366 00:18:40,890 --> 00:18:44,130 -- We don't take that for granted. Quick shout out to Jeff Bond. 367 00:18:44,130 --> 00:18:45,560 -- He's listening to every one of them. 368 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:51,230 -- Thanks Chef, one of my buddies and every once in a while if you listen, 369 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:53,120 -- we may do a shout out. 370 00:18:53,120 --> 00:18:56,350 -- There we go. Thanks for listening guys, we love you. 371 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:02,300 -- This is an lbs production, which stands for pounds. 372 00:19:02,300 --> 00:19:03,350 -- I don't know if you knew that or not, 373 00:19:03,350 --> 00:19:08,530 -- but it also stands for laughing because we're saved, but we kind of like the pounds, 374 00:19:08,530 --> 00:19:13,700 -- so um Chris will lift them and I will gain them and we will have a great time. 375 00:19:13,700 --> 00:19:14,460 -- Thanks for listening. 376 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:15,670 -- Mhm.