The Lid on Your Leadership
The Biggest Hindrance to Growing in Your Influence
What do you think the biggest hindrance to developing leadership?
Is it a lack of skills?
A lack of education?
Is it the wrong personality type?
I’ve been a leader in the church world for over 20 years and observing people has led me to believe that there is a lid on how much a leader can grow.
Now to be honest, there is more than one lid or one main cause of leadership failure. For instance, I’m not writing about integrity today but if you don’t have it, that is definitely a lid on your leadership. If you don’t treat people well, lie, practice immoral behavior or steal, then you are definitely going to have problems growing in leadership. People won’t trust you when you lack integrity. Wherever you compromise to get an advantage early on, will cripple you later on as a leader. The lid of lacking integrity is almost self-evident.
Lacking certain skills or continuing education can be a lid as well. Times change and the skills that get you to a certain level of leadership may not keep you if the demands and responsibilities of your position change over time. I’ve seen leaders with great integrity no longer progress with the growth of their organization because they don’t learn new skills to address the new challenges of growth. If you quit growing and your organization, business or church doesn’t you will be left behind. You need to keep learning and refining your skills or you can hit a lid on your leadership.
But I think there is a lid that a lot of people don’t recognize on leadership but it could limit you more than a lack of skills and almost affect you as much as a lack of integrity. The lid on your leadership that is often ignored is…
