Your Good Intentions Fall Short

6 Systems for Effective Staff Leadership

What is your plan to lead and support your staff?

If you're like me (and every other leader I know), great intentions don't always become reality.

When I was the lead pastor at Woodstock City Church, I knew my staff needed and deserved support. I wanted to support them and lead well.

But how?

Leading by example helps, and delegating is good. But I found most of my "leadership" was drive-by lessons. While helpful, sporadic leadership engagement is insufficient.

Systems Turn Intention Into Reality

The only way to ensure that what you hope happens actually happens is by creating and implementing a system. Systems are the secret to consistency.

To effectively and consistently do what you want, need, and should do, systems are a must.

6 Staff Engagement Systems Every Leader Should Create

Hope isn't a strategy or a system. If you hope to lead your team well, systems are the answer.

Here are the six staff engagement systems I used when leading Woodstock City Church: