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Talent alone does not make you a great leader. You've seen lots of talented and smart people who don't know what they don't know, and that's why we want to remember. To be a great leader, you must first be a great servant.

If you're too big to serve, you're too small to lead. Hey, welcome back to another episode, the trade rushed leaders podcast. I feel sincerely called to invest in you to help you get Better in your leadership because we know that everyone wins when the leader gets Better.

And right now, we're in a series of episodes were dropping one a week, which is more than Normal for us. We're doing that for the next few weeks. And what i'm doing is I want to talk about what you want to talk about.

I'm answering your questions if you have more questions, if you have feedback, if you have comments, you've got encouragement. You can emails anytime at leadership. At lifestyle arch, our team loves hearing from you. In the last episode, we talked about having developmental conversations today.

What I want to do is I want to answer questions from Younger leaders about how do you lead when you're Younger, how do you succeed when you're Younger or when you're new in leadership. And so we'll start with Christine, and I think K R Y S, T, I A and Christian emailed in and said, i'm a Young professional with few leadership opportunities. I'm struggling with tension between waiting for an opportunity and creating my own opportunity.

How do you baLance those? So Christian is a new leader and wanting to know, do I create a way, or do I kind of wait for someone to give me opportunity? Very fair, very sincere question.

And so Christian, I wish I had to ask you questions personally before answering IT because that would change how I answer IT. Um but I appreciate the fact that you don't want to overstep appropriate boundaries if you're a part of a team that sounds like you wants to have a posture of humility. You're not assuming that they're just going to give you respond ability and you don't want to come in uh, pride for, but you do want to make a difference.

So I respect your question. I would say this if you're choosing between being overly proactive or overly passive, I suggest proactive every single time as leaders. We always say that we'd rather a team member that we have to say wow to instead of getting up right, we'd rather slow someone down this got passion, then try to jump start someone who's hesitant.

And so let's say that you are going to be proactive and you want to kind of create some opportunities to make a difference. I would suggest you start by leading where you are. But like literally, even if you don't have a job yet, you're going to start influencing your friends in the right direction if you're Christians.

Hey, let's go to church and night. Let's go to youth group at night. Let's go to this type of a concert or whatever. And so you're going going to be a good example where where you are. If you're in any type of organization, I would suggest you look for three things you want to lead where you are.

Number one, look for need needs that you can meet, look for problems that you can solve and look for opportunities that you can sees. You're going to be pro activist. So we're looking for any kind of need that you can meet, any kind of problem you can bring a solution to, any kind of opportunity you can step in and take.

So we'll start with the first one, needs that you can meet. This is such a good opportunity. If you want to make a real difference in the world, don't focus on what you want, but on what others need.

This applies to every area of life in leadership. Don't just think about, this is what I want to do in life, but look at what other people need. Mmb you focused? Be loving to others and try to meet needs.

If you see a need, you can meet you at the same with any kind of problems. What are the best businesses? What are the best ministries? what? What are they? Essentially, there are solutions to problems.

There are groups of people who are solving problems as what a businesses their meeting needs, as what a ministry is you see in need and you're meeting IT. So if you're going to look for a need to meet or a problem can solve or an opportunity can see is you're going to be proactive and patient, not proactive, impassive that there's a difference. You're going be proactive and little bit patients in.

In other words, you're going get in there and you're going to mix IT up and you're going to look for needs you can meet and you're going to create some opportunities but don't rush the results. You want to be proactive and also you want to be patient. And if you're faithful ful in the small things scriptures teaches us that you can be trusted with more.

And so whether you are going to lead where you are. And then i'd say this Christian, i'd say no matter what, like invest in yourself, invest in your own leadership. Don't wait for permission from someone else to get Better.

Today, a lot of times you want someone to notice you, you want to get promoted. You want to be hired into a job, I mean, no matter where you are, no matter what you're do, and you can invest in yourself today. So six mental read books, listen to d cast, attend conferences, ask questions.

And what you're doing is you're getting Better. You're developing your own leadership. And why does this matter?

Because leadership isn't just a position to hold, is a disposition to develop. When you remember that not just a position you hold is a disposition you develop. You don't need a job or title to get a Better mindset. You're changing your mindset. You're developing your leadership.

And so Christian, I am sincerely praying that got opens the doors for you or he shows you which ones to nudge open because I believe there's nothing wrong would be in proactive and then uh, if you have time, want you eating us and tell us how you're growing and progressing, uh, because we care and we want to celebrate with, hey, crack here. We'll get back to the episode in just a minute. But I wanted IT.

First of all, I share a resource that I think find helpful to your leadership. There's a secret that i've learned about leadership, and we know that the best leaders are almost always the best readers. why? Because your influence and impact are in many ways of result of the books and ideas that you take in.

So as I look back over my years of leadership, there are forty four books that rise to the top as books that I believe that every leader's should read. So our team has created the list and organized IT into the areas that you'll want to grow in. To get this free list, go to live dutch shirts slash forty four books.

That's the number four hundred and four live dutch shirts slash forty four books. And I hope this will be a gift to you to dig into a list of great books, get reading and keep leading. Now back to the episode.

Let's answer another question. This is from Rebecca on youtube, and he asked this question. He asked, what are some of the best practices for emerging leaders who have the talent but now need to gain credibility? Okay, so they have the talent, but need to gain credibility.

I'm going to focus on these words for me. They have the talent, but they need to gain the credibility. The words, they are good at what they do, but someone hasn't recognized IT yet.

They have the, but they need to gain the credibility. okay. Rebeca, thank you for your question.

And since we've never met and I just had your question to go on, I don't know him about you. Based on what you've asked, I would say what I read into IT. And based on just your question, you have the talent, but you need the credibility.

When I hear a question like that, I just want to say I am really glad you confident you assume that you have talent, not credibility, and that's a good thing like having really, really hope you have confidence. But again, and i'm written into this question, and I hope you don't hate me even if I knew you or if you said more. And it's not just written question, but I see your body language, your spirit.

I read IT differently, but just this one who helped a lot of Young leaders grow has a real heart for Young leaders. Believe in Young leaders, care about them as one who helps a lot of Younger leaders grow and develop. Um I would suggest you refrain your question a bit and let's look at IT again.

You ask want to own the best practices for emerging leaders who have the talent but need to gain the credibility probably not your heart, but IT sounds like you you do have talent and you you just need someone to recognize your and that maybe totally true, like you maybe ridiculous, talented and you need someone to recognize your count. But that's actually not the way I want to hear that question from a new team member. And so I give you the heart behind IT with someone access to me.

I've got the town, but I need the credibility. What I hear is someone who might be overly confident. And the reason I hear that, because that was me in my twenties, I remember thinking, like I got the talent to preach that someone, please give me a place to preach.

When I didn't, I know I was twenty three. I didn't know what I didn't know. And you probably do have tell you probably really do, but you may not know what you don't know.

And that's why I always say don't let what you know distract you from what need to learn. Don't let what you know distract what you from what you need to learn. Don't let your talent distract you from what you need to develop.

You maybe talent, but you got some places to develop. And if you're saying I just need a place for credibility doesn't sound like you're ready to develop. And again, I don't know your heart and you probably are very talented and so is really, really important to come in with the right poster.

Instead of assuming the already talented and others need to recognize your talent, I suggest you post yourself as someone who has the potential and these mentors and experience. So i'd refraining the question this way and then I think it's going to take you a lot further, ask you this way, what are some best practices for emerging leaders who have the potential but need a gain experience? Same idea, but the way ask, it's totally different.

Hey, I think i've got potential, but I need experience. I need mentor. I need someone help me learn and to some of you right now you might think, okay, now you're just the old guy being nitpicky.

I might be a promise you might be but if you come to me and you say, i'm just tell ted and need someone to recognize the talent, what I feel is like I don't having them to offer you because you are too good and don't sell. You have much to learn. You just just need a chance.

And almost in that went in your heart, but that's what someone like me is going to hear. So what what we want to do, no matter where we are, we always want to lead with humility. why? Because humility is the soil from which great leaders grow.

Humility is the soil from which great leadership grows. And so rebeca, i'd say this, you probably have real potential, and you want experience. So what do you do? How do you build credibility? Well, you build credibility this way.

Credibility is built over time through consistency, character and competency. That's how you do is consistency, character and combine. Cy, so you're going to want to be consistent in everything you do. I would suggest you want to be consistently a little early to your work.

You maybe if you can stay consistently a little later than other people, consistently ask good questions, consistently add value, consistently be a student who who's wants to get Better and working to consistently seed expectations and then you're going to consistently lead with integrity. That's that's your character and you're going to deliver on results consistently. That's your competency.

why? Because consistency matters so much is not what you do occasionally that makes the difference, is what you do consistently. One more time as leaders is not what we do every now element. So what we do occasionally that that brings about greatness is what you do consistently. And I always tried to examine my heart.

I want to say, is my motive to add value or gain credibility? Is my motive to make a difference or to make a point? Is my motive my motive to get noticed? Or you're really push our organization for because I want to come in with the servants heart.

And when you come in with the servants heart, IT changes everything because talent alone does not make you a great leader. You've seen lots of talent and smart people who don't know what they don't know. And that's why we wanted remember to be a great leader, you must first be a great servant.

If you're too big to serve, you're too small to lead. And rebeca, I know I kind of mess with your question a little bit. And my heart is for youtube.

Take the talent they have developed, grow that got open doors and make a really, really, really big difference. And I have a feeling but there's greatness inside of you. Um let others develop and over time you can make a big, big difference. I start raping IT at this way.

I had a mentor tell me this in my mid twice, maybe the late twenty right before starting live church um he said I have a promise for you and I thought he's going to say you're going to great things he said person he says I promise you can be broken in which save that for another day which I didn't like but IT was true as second thing he said he said, hey, you'll very likely over restin ate what you can do in the short run and you'll very likely underestimate what you can do through a lifetime of faithful ness and ah we were at Dennis six thirty A M breakfast. He tell me this, you can, over rest, make what you need the short run. And I remember thinking, hey, how to start this church? And I approve.

Everybody wrong, really reach at time of people's, can be amazing, can blow IT up to mean fantastic. You and and we started and didn't go real well for a while. This kind of small and and yeah were six months and there's you know hundred six people come in and and anyway and he was right dead.

In the short run, I had higher expectations than the results that I had. And such good advice, and I want to say especially to the emerging and Younger generation, is um you may very likely over estimate what you can do in short run. And the reason is because you've seen viral fame, you see people blow up fast and see you think that um you can too and you you might but most things that are worth building, most things take time.

Those things that are sustained um are generally LED by someone that has ongoing character in talent. And so you may overreact, ate what you can do in the short run. But this is so, so true.

You're vastly underestimate what you can do through a lifetime of faithful ness. So when are you successful? You're not successful ten years from now when you get the title, when you get the bigger salary, when you get the contract, when you get verified, you're not successful.

Then you're actually successful when you're faithful and when you can, you be fateful and the only time you can really be faithful today. And so if you shop today and you're faithful, you do a good job. You leave with integrity.

You love where you serve way. You care about people you're fathers today. Then if you're faith with little, you can me trust you with more.

So take the talent that you have and be faithful that don't rush IT. Take your time, leave with consistency, with character, with competency. Over time, you will have the honor to serve many as a leader.

And i'll also say this because I care about you. You'll also have the burden and the responsibility. This is not all fun and it's not all lazy, but IT is all important, is a gift to be started is not easy.

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