I’m at the leadership summit with the team from Revolution Church. This is by far the best leadership conference of the year. This is my 14th summit and every year, God stretches me and challenges me. So much wisdom and inspiration wrapped up into two days. I always blog my notes, so if you can’t attend or missed something, I’ve got you covered.

Here are some takeaways from session 6 with Sam Adeyemi:

• You don’t attract who you want, you attract who you are.
• There needs to be alignment between the identity of the leader and the followers.

• We can make champions out of ordinary people.
• The transformation that happens in people’s lives is the ability of your leadership.
• Real and sustainable change in people’s lives begins with a change in their sense of identity.
• We must help people see a new identity.
• What we believe is what we become.

• Changing how people see themselves is the hard work of leadership.

4 steps to change what people see and hear:

• Describe your vision over and over. 
• There is power in vision.
• The people you lead should be able to see themselves in your vision.
• A vision is not just a present self, but a future self.
• People don’t follow you because you are special, you lead because they are special.

• Great leaders change what people think about themselves.
• Set up a structured training system. 
• Is your training capable of producing the ideal staff and members of your vision?
• You must model the transformation you are talking about. 
• Those you lead need to see you transformed.
• Reinvent yourself over and over. 
• Constantly ask what the next level of success looks like.
• To grow, you must let go of who you have been.
• Many leaders are stuck because they no longer take risks because of fear of losing their success.

I’m at the leadership summit with the team from Revolution Church. This is by far the best leadership conference of the year. This is my 14th summit and every year, God stretches me and challenges me. So much wisdom and inspiration wrapped up into two days. I always blog my notes, so if you can’t attend or missed something, I’ve got you covered.

Here are some takeaways from session 5 with Lazlo Bock, Senior Advisor at Google:

• For too many leaders, there is a gap between what they believe and how they act.
• A leaders job is to find the best people, grow them as fast as possible, and then keep them at the company.
• The experience of work should be meaningful.
• We all want to be valued and have a voice in what we do. A leader needs to give that to their people.

• Treat your employees right and they will great things for you.
• The most important thing is to give your work meaning.
• If you are a leader, you need to give the work that your people do meaning.
• What meaning do people find from working at your church or company? What meaning are you giving to your people?
• A leader needs to remind people about the mission and meaning of your work.
• There are some people who remember the duty but forget the joy of the work we do.
• Only a 1/3 of workers feel a connection between their job and meaning.
• To create meaning: Figure out why you are doing the work you are doing. Remind yourself, this is why I’m here.

• A big mistake most companies make is to not trust their people enough.
• The only thing that drives performance in organizations is having a goal and make sure other people know that goal.

• If you are a leader, give your people more freedom than you are comfortable with.
• Ask what your people think.
• When people ask a question, ask them what they think.
• More freedom makes people happier and they stay longer.

• Recruiting and hiring is so important because that is how you transform an organization.
• Simple rules for hiring: Don’t let the interviewers make the hiring decision. Always hire someone who is better than me in some way.

I’m at the leadership summit with the team from Revolution Church. This is by far the best leadership conference of the year. This is my 14th summit and every year, God stretches me and challenges me. So much wisdom and inspiration wrapped up into two days. I always blog my notes, so if you can’t attend or missed something, I’ve got you covered.

Here are some takeaways from the third session with Bryan Stevenson, Founder and Executive Director of Equal Justice Initiative:

• You can’t be effective leader from a distance.
• Leadership requires that the people we are serving know that we are with them.

• The goal of leadership and life is to do something that brings you life and passion.
• Don’t simply settle.
• Problems can’t be solved from a distance.
• There is power in proximity. The answer comes in proximity.

• If you lead by fear and anger, you will allow yourself to be led to dangerous places.
• We need to understand the narratives that we believe.
• True narrative change can liberate us.
• Leaders can never give up hope.
• Hopelessness is the enemy of justice. It is the enemy of leadership.
• Hope is about talking about what we’ll do, not what we’ve already done.
• To be an effective leader means we must be willing to do uncomfortable things.
• What is it about us that resists and run from the people that are broken?

I’m at the leadership summit with the team from Revolution Church. This is by far the best leadership conference of the year. This is my 14th summit and every year, God stretches me and challenges me. So much wisdom and inspiration wrapped up into two days. I always blog my notes, so if you can’t attend or missed something, I’ve got you covered.

Here are some takeaways from the fourth session with Fredrik Haren, creativity expert and author of The Idea Book:

• There is no correlation between creativity and creative confidence.
• The #1 thing a leader must do is make the people around them more creative.

• Creativity is when a person takes knowledge and information and combines it in a new way.
• Just because people don’t see your creativity or worthwhile, doesn’t mean that it is not creative or worthwhile.
• Creativity has never been more important than it is now.
• Idea perception is the ability to see that the world has changed.
• What if leaders took the challenge of making their people more creative?
• You become creative by doing more creative things as a leader.