The Five Habits Of Effectiveness: Insights From Leaders Who Have Finished Well

March 2009

Similarities in the lives of almost all great leaders can be recognized. Consider the following five habits found amongst those who found that they loved Jesus more today than yesterday.

1. Effective leaders maintain a positive learning posture throughout their entire lives. They never stop learning. Whether informally through reading, personal growth projects, and personal research, non-formally through workshops, seminars, and conferences or through formal training such as continuing professional education or degree programs.

2. Effective leaders are committed to mentoring and being mentored. They take leadership development seriously involving themselves and potential leaders they are discipling in new and challenging growth opportunities.

3. Effective leaders live by a dynamic statement of personal calling. They allow God to continually shape their unique and ultimate contribution. Their statement of personal calling is dynamic as it is reviewed and refreshed at least monthly.

4. Effective leaders experience repeated times of renewal. Effective, godly leaders develop intimacy with God, which, in turn, overflows into all of their life. The essential ingredient of leadership is the powerful presence of God in a leader’s life and ministry.

5. Effective leaders increasingly perceive their life in terms of a big picture, lifetime perspective. They manifest a growing awareness of their sense of destiny.

These five habits are based on the research of J. Robert Clinton where he found these habits to be consistently seen in leaders who finish well. If you would like to know more about cultivating these Habits of Effectiveness please contact me at (800) 984-9092. God bless you as you serve and lead.

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