Craig Groeschel spoke on intergenerational leadership – how older leaders can work with younger leaders. I mostly took notes on the part that applied to me as a relatively young leader. 🙂
A few abridged notes:
- When you delegate tasks you create followers
- When you delegate responsibility you produce leaders
- Tim Elmore: told emerging generation to pick one word that starts with the letter ‘E’ to describe themselves. Most common answers:
Exceptional
Excellent
Extraordinary
- Number one word employers used of this generation: Entitled
- You can’t speed up maturity
- We tend to overestimate what God intends to do in the short run
- We grossly underestimate what God will do in the long run if we remain faithful
- Most common question from 20-somethings:Â How do I lead up
- Craig asked his pastor: Why did you let me lead up?
- Answer? Because you showed me honor
- Honor publicly results in influence privately
- The emerging generation often doesn’t show honor
- Our leaders have been chosen and equipped by God
- Honor — to treat as valuable, esteem
- The lack of honor for the older generation in the ministry limits what God can do
- If you want to be over, you need to learn to be under with integrity
- I have great hope for this younger generation
- This generation is the most cause driven, mission minded generation in the history of the world
- They ache to make a difference in this world
- You see something you don’t like and it disturbs your soul and it lights a fire under you
- And you’re willing to say “not on my watch. I am not OK with this”
- You’re willing to walk away from the so many materialistic traps that my generation got caught up in
- But you feel entitled: You need to understand what you deserve — you deserve hell
- When you understand that, it frees you from entitlement