The Discipline Leadership Requires
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Leadership Straight from Bill Hybels
The Discipline Leadership Requires
The best leaders are not just the ones
who cast white hot visions.
They are ones who cast those visions
then who discipline the work flow,
discipline rhythm, schedule,
retreats, check-ins...
It's discipline that moves that ball
up the field so visions become reality.
I was kidding with a group
a couple of days ago.
I asked, "How many of you do
staff performance reviews?"
Maybe a third of them went up.
To prove the point I was trying to make,
I said, "So you really believe
in these things?"
They replied, "Yes, you told us
we should do them so we do."
I said, "How often?
In what month?"
About half in the room did not know.
I said, "Did you do it last year?"
We did not get
around to it last year.
We are sure we are going
to do it next year.
That is not disciplined leadership.
Disciplined leadership says
here is our year, we have
our off-site during this time.
Then we move everything.
We decide what we're going to do
between now and mid-year.
In May at Willow we do
our staff engagement survey.
We do our staff performance reviews.
We have our second off-site in July,
where we do the same thing we did here
and get our new work flow.
We do our staff performance review in January.
When you set up the rhythm...
the rhythm by which you stay a disciplined
organization doing right things if you like or not,
every time we come up to
staff performance reviews
our HR person will say to me,
"Now next week you have
to do many performance reviews."
My reaction is exactly
the same every time.
I say, "You cannot...it's going to wreck my...
I have to preach...
it's a horrible idea."
He says, "We are committed,
we do it every June and January.
The whole organization is going to do it.
You have to do it."
I say, "Thanks for wrecking
my day, buddy."
When I do them, I cannot imagine
if I had put those off
and if he would have 'caved in'
and said we should skip them.
You cannot skip these things.
Our off-sites for our executive team
and leadership team
these are planned
two years in advance.
These are never missed.
Everyone comes.
No question.
These are the things
on the calendar.
They are completely disciplined.
They have to be.
Or you will get near them
and you will say, "We are going
too fast and it's too busy."
And you will not do the things
you know you need to do.