2014 Global Leadership Summit Session 1: Bill Hybels #GLS14

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Founder and Senior Pastor, Willow Creek Community Church

SESSION 1: Opening Session

• Founded The Global Leadership Summit, now in 650+ cities and 105 countries
• Senior Pastor of Willow Creek Community Church, a pioneer in contemporary church strategy and one of America’s largest churches with more than 25,000 weekly attendees
• Committed to developing and mentoring leaders worldwide, including those in the most difficult, overlooked and under-resourced countries
• Best-selling author of more than 20 books including Courageous Leadership, Axiom and Simplify (August 2014)

Session Notes

• Hard fought leadership lessons
• Leaders are visionaries by nature. We see pictures of the future that produce passion.
• Leaders with the highest levels of achievement often have the lowest awareness of the spirit of the team
• God treasures people more than visions.
• 1) Use an outside agency to evaluate engagement levels.
• 2) Own the culture turnaround (don’t delegate to HR)
  • Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
• 3) Mandatory training for everyone who leads or manages people.
  • People join organizations; they leave managers.
  • You will never reach your full potential as an organization unless every manager is leading and loving people well.
• 4) Raise the level of candor in annual performance reviews.
  • Tell people what they should start… stop… continue…
  • 3Ms: Move something ahead. Modify what isn’t working. Motivate the people you lead.
  • Everyone wins when a leader gets better.
• 5) Ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict
  • “Reconcile” book.
  • View conflict as an opportunity to strengthen a relationship.
• In Christian orgs, only 54% of employees are engaged. In corporate America only 30%.
• Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.
  • 5 top was to develop emerging leaders – Bob Ikinger (sp?)
    • 1) put them in high challenge roles
    • 2) assign to a short-term task force
      • success or failure must be possible
      • emerging leader must take full charge
      • must work with a wide variety of people
      • must involve real pressures and a deadline
      • end product must be evaluated by senior leader
    • 3) Real time feedback
    • 4) Coaching and mentoring
    • 5) Classroom courses and seminars
  • Resourcefulness is one of the greatest weapon in a leaders arsenal.
  • “Figure it out and don’t call me” 🙂
  • Resourcefulness requires determination, creativity, collaboration and ability to learn. (not a direct quote)
  • When is the last time you assigned an emerging leader to a high-challenge task force to evaluate them?
• Find and develop leaders with a legacy mindset
  • Shepherd parable… discern between hireling-types and ownership-types
  • Hirelings have a short-term, ladder-climbing mindset, don’t sacrifice for long-term goals.
  • Legacy leaders address long-term culture, sustainability issues.
  • “Forgiven much, worship much.”
  • God has given you enormous freedom to choose what to do with your “dash.” You can choose to lead small and safe – you can choose to be a hireling – or you can be a legacy leader who leaves something beautiful behind.
  • No one drifts into legacy leadership; it takes intentionality.
  • What do you want your legacy to be?
• Endurance
  • James 1:12
  • The grander the vision, the greater the price tag.
  • The grandest vision ever was the redemption of humanity. It cost Jesus his life.
  • Need solitude breaks when I’m not responsible for other’s happiness.
  • It’s hard to hear God at Mach 2
  • If you lower the ambient noise in your life and pursue solitude, you can hear and experience the voice of God.
  • Story of Canadian woman trying to cross Atlantic in a rowboat. Radioed for help. Help provided by Queen Mary 2.
  • We have a Queen Mary-sized God… near to the broken-hearted… radio for help.