1-3-6-Functions

1-3-6-Functions of Management

Read Exodus 17: 10-13

Aron and Hur stood by Moses' side and held up his arms to ensure victory against Amalek. We need to "lift up the hands" of our spiritual leaders as well. Shouldering some responsibility, lending a word of encouragement, or offering a prayer are ways of refreshing spiritual leaders in their work.

When and how have you needed your faith propped up?

What battle has God won in your life lately? What would you name your alter: "The Lord is my _____?

Functions of Management

Energize

Today managers are masters of making things happen. This most important function is to get people excited and inspired. Great managers create for more energy then they consume.

Empower

Managers still provide vision, establish organizational goals, and determine shared values. However, managers must establish a corporate infrastructure - skills training, teams and so forth - that supports empowerment.

Support

Managers must be coaches trainers, colleagues, and cheer leaders, to those they work with. The main concern of today's managers needs to be shaping a more supportive environment. It means that you provide training, resources, and authority to do their jobs, and then you get out of the way, until thy fall, and then you help them pick up the pieces. A key is to establish a spirit of openness.

Communicate

Plan-Buy a planning calendar and keep it up to date. Set aside 20 minutes at the beginning of your business day to set your priorities for the day. D your highest priority first and your lowest priority last. Assign assistants the tasks of intercepting and destroying junk mail. Set aside at least 20 minutes at the end of your business day to tie up loose ends.

Delegating

Communicate the task. Describe exactly what you want done, when you want it done, and what end results you expect.
Furnish context for the task. Explain why the task needs to be done, its importance in the overall scheme of things, and possible complications that may arise during its performance.
Determine standards. Agree on the standards that you will use to measure the success of a task's completion. These standards should be realistic and attainable.
Grant authority. You must grant the authority necessary to complete the task without constant road blocks or standoffs.
Provide support. Determine the resources necessary to complete the task and then provide them. Successfully completing a task may require money, training, advice, and other resources.
Get commitment. make sure that the assignment has been accepted. Confirm their expectations and understanding.

Leadership

Great organizations need great management. How ever great management does not necessarily make a great organization. For an organization to be great, it must also have great leadership. Leaders have vision.

Leaders, challenge others to achieve goals, create a compelling vision of the future, and then unlocking the potential. Leaders apply these skills:

Inspire-to take action and to achieve great things. Leaders clear the roadblocks to creativity and pride. The help people to tap into energy and initiative that they didn't know they had.

Communicate-leadership is a two way interchange of ideas where leaders create a vision, develop and communicate ideas of how best to reach the vision.

Support and facilitate.

Training

The best leaders are trainers - that is, individuals who guide, discuss, and encourage others on their journey. A trainer is a colleague, counselor, and cheerleader, all rolled into one.

	Trainers set goals.
	Trainers support and encourage.
	Trainers emphasize team success over individuals success (Winning takes the combined efforts of all members of a team).
	Trainers can quickly assess the talents and shortfalls of team members - tailor their approach.
	Trainers inspire the members of their team.
	Trainers create environments that allow individuals to be successful.
	Trainers provide feedback.

Meetings

	Be prepared,
	Have an agenda,
	Start on time and end on time (or sooner).
	Have fewer but better meetings,
	Think inclusion not exclusion,
	Maintain the focus
	Capture action items,
	Get feedback

The Person of Christ.

It is important to appreciate the influence of the person of Christ on the gospel writers. A brief statement from W.D. Davies (Invitation to the New Testament, p. 115) illustrates this: "It is more likely that the trust, the creativity, the originality which lies behind the Gospel tradition of the works and words of Jesus should be credited to him rather than to the body of Christians. The kind of penetrating insight preserved in the Gospels points...to a supreme source in a single person, Jesus, rabbi and prophet."

A Sense of Mission

The early Christians were concerned with Jesus' words and His commission to them to proclaim the message. Peter asserted, "we cannot but speak the things which we saw and heard" (Acts 4:20). They spoke "all the words of this Life" (Acts 5:20). John writes that the apostles declared all that they saw and heard (1 John 1:1-3). Paul called himself a debtor to preach the Gospel (Rom. 1:14-15), and he faithfully passed on to his hearers "that which also I received (1 Cor. 15:3). In time this proclamation was written; thus came the gospels as well as the rest of the New Testament.

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