Responsibilities of Team Leaders

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To help build a unified team, the kind that functions according to God’s design, team leaders must provide the following to promote the qualities it takes to get there:

Training

Don’t assume the team will be unified and accepting of each other’s differences but rather provide pre-team training of what it takes to be on a team as well as continued trust-building exercises.

Leadership Skills Required: communication, modeling

Empowerment

Don’t expect people to merely attend meetings and give occasional input but rather truly give them authority to do their parts.

Leadership Skills Required: delegation

Accountability

Don’t let self-centered attitudes fester but rather point to the attitude and servant heart of Jesus as the standard for the team.

Leadership Skills Required: coordination, conflict management

Motivation

Don’t forget the big picture and get lost in all the details but rather promote the development of perspective and an expectancy toward what God will do for the whole.

Leadership Skills Required: vision-casting

When team leaders fulfill these responsibilities, it tends to build the qualities needed in team members to work as a unified group.

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Church Leadership Skills: Team Building

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Qualities Needed in Team Members

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God designed the church to function as a unit … a body, a team (1 Cor. 12) … which requires unity. Following are four qualities that will help team members be more united. You will notice that it requires the removal of “self.”

Trust

All must learn to respect and accept one another regardless of opinions, personalities, or differences in gifting and abilities.

Engaged

All must eagerly do their part according to God’s design.

Adaptable

All must humbly accept what’s best in order to accomplish God’s purposes rather than push their own agendas or personal gain.

Missional

All must look at the big picture and strategically pursue God’s purposes.

Note the word “all” under each of the above team qualities.  To truly be a unified team and reach optimal effectiveness, each member of the team must pursue these qualities.

In the next post we will look at the team leader’s responsibility to promote these kinds of qualities. You can subscribe to the blog to receive e-mail notification of new posts.

You’ll find this acrostic in the Steering the Church Toward God’s Purposes Leadership Guide where team building, along with 24 other leadership responsibilities, is examined in light of our church purpose to love God and people. In addition to the acrostic as it is above, you’ll also find a line under each letter of the kind of commitment it takes to get there.

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