Every year, my team and I attend the leadership summit and it is always refreshing, challenging and recharging for me. Easily the best leadership material in a conference that is out there. I try to share some of the highlights I took from each session.

Here are some thoughts from the session with Patrick Lencioni on Motivation and how it Shapes our Leadership:

• I think a lot fewer people should become a leader. 
• Don’t be a leader unless you’re doing it for the right reason.
• There are two kinds of leadership: responsible and reward.
• Responsible leadership is comparable to servant leadership.
• Many of the things you do as leaders don’t have a reward.
• You have to understand your leadership motive if you’re going to be a good leader. 

A leader who is reward centered won’t do is:

• They don’t like to have an uncomfortable, difficult conversation.
• They avoid them and push them off to others. And people suffer.
• To be a leader, you have to have awkward conversations.
• They don’t like to manage their direct reports. 
• A good leader knows what their people are working on, coaches them and keeps them aligned.
• If people aren’t managed, they lose motivation.
• They don’t like to run great meetings. 
• A leader can’t abdicate meetings or delegate them to someone else.
• Bad leaders don’t like to do things that are tedious or boring.
• Bad meetings lead to bad decisions.
• They don’t like to talk about how they interact with each other because it’s difficult. 
• They don’t like to repeat themselves and overcommunicate. 
• Great leaders never get tired of reminding people what they do as a church or company.
• Leaders don’t entertain, they keep people focused.
• Our people suffer because of poor leadership.