Deuteronomy 1:6-7, Joshua 13:1
One lesson you must learn from a fool is to avoid his ways.
WHEN SHOULD WE INITIATE CHANGE AS LEADERS
1. When you are always failing to achieve your goals.
2. When you notice a settlement mentality.
3. When there is a lack of drive and complacency steps in.
4. When the church plateus or when the church declines.
5. When productivity declines or fatigue sets in.
6. When team members need to be challenged to maximize their potential.
7. When there is much activity but little accomplishment.
8. When there is motion but not movement.
Three THINGS THAT WILL AFFECT YOUR FUTURE
1. The places you go to.
2. The people you meet.
3. The books you read.
THINGS YOU NEED TO CHANGE
1. Change Job description and the assignment of some people.
2. Change strategies and change plan.
3. Change location. Don't labour on hard ground.
4. Change structures.
5. Change your skills; self development.
6. Change your level of commitment.
7. Change your mode of communication.
8. You may need to change people; recruit people.
9. Change you mode of worship.
10. Change your mentors or instructors.
HOW DO YOU INITIATE CHANGES
1. Spend time in praying. Spend time talking to God.
2. Expect resistance.
◾ People who are tied to yesterday's answers, don't have a future.
◾ Anyone resisting change is resisting progress.
3. Learn to differentiate the assignment God gave to you and the strategy used to achieve it.
4. Who do you focus on? Is it the people you want to reach or the people you want to keep?
◾ The loudest voices are not the most important voices.
5. Be bold and decisive.
◾ Leaders who are bold overcome the fear of the unknown.
◾ Anybody who wants growth must learn to welcome changes.
THE 4 TYPES OF PEOPLE
1. The Early Adaptors (usually 10%).
2. The Early Majority (30%)
3. The Quiet Majority (50 %)
4. The Opponents (10%)
Those who oppose change are not in the majority, and they are not speaking for the majority. And oftentimes, they do not have a better idea.