Ron Edmondson

MARCH 23, 2021

The critical leadership error: We forget people are trying to follow. We get so caught up in our own world we forget people we are trying to lead are trying to follow us. Have you ever tried to follow someone in a car? I have followed people who take quick turns without using a blinker.

Leadership 70

Leadership Self-aware Edmondson Follow-up 70

Ron Edmondson

MARCH 20, 2024

The same children labeled as “strong-willed” by their parents often grow up to be strong-willed adults. In fact, I’m convinced many strong-willed people end up leading simply because they couldn’t be led. They aren’t the rule followers on the team. Perhaps you know one. In fact, perhaps you are one. (I

Resistance 73

Resistance Maturity Guidelines Edmondson 73

Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 11, 2024

The three functions within life cycles are: Starters Starting involves those who can dream, vision-cast, and recruit people to follow a new idea or initiative. Maintainers Maintaining involves setting up and managing systems in an effort to continue the progress usually begun by others. BTW, this is the group where I typically fit.)

Organization 61

Organization Edmondson Follow-up Innovation 61

Ron Edmondson

MAY 23, 2023

Falsely we can believe that if people knew what we were really feeling they may not respect us, may not follow us, and – just being candid – may not even like us. We would also attract loyal followers who would be more willing to help fill in the gaps of our leadership. I’m afraid because I can’t seem to keep up!

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Learning-by-Doing Follow-up Maturity Leadership Styles 67

Ron Edmondson

MARCH 23, 2023

They want to limit frustration among the people trying to follow them. We blew it – made a mistake – messed up. And if the fault is clearly mine — I MESSED UP! It’s the choice we know we need to make, but it’s the hardest one to make. Truth is every leader I know wants to be liked.

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Learning-by-Doing Follow-up Edmondson Long-term 90

Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 29, 2024

7 high but worthy costs of leadership: Forgoing a personal agenda Good leaders give up their personal desires for the good of others, the team or the organization. Unscripted outcomes People follow worthy visions. Therefore, cheap leadership is never good leadership. What high costs are you paying for leadership?

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Cost Leadership Objective Edmondson 68

Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 1, 2022

And if you want to follow the retail trend you can start decorating for Christmas in September!). People need to be willing to give up “their” seat for visitors. Plan good follow up. The greatest return for visiting a church is often in the quality of the follow up after the service.

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Follow-up Long-term Edmondson Retail 76

Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Find the right person/s for the responsibility based on passion, experience, and follow through capabilities. Part of leading is raising up others to lead. (I’m I suspect Moses did when he followed Jethro’s advice.) Set a reminder on your calendar to periodically follow up with the person.

Delegation 74

Delegation Follow-up Edmondson Learning-by-Doing 74

Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

7 Observed Traits of the Best Leaders: Had a character worthy of following. I trusted their word, mostly because their actions backed up what they said. These leaders encouraged me to pick my head up after a mistake. They didn’t let me give up easily. Teachable leaders are easy to follow.

Micromanagement 64

Micromanagement Follow-up Edmondson Long-term 64

Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In doing so, we robbed ourselves of potential leaders and kept some people from following the ministry God had laid on their heart. Her faith follows quickly, but her heart often lingers with the previous church. Her emotional commitment always follows in time. They weren’t our target.

Resistance 59

Resistance Learning-by-Doing Edmondson Follow-up 59

Ron Edmondson

MARCH 27, 2024

You will need people to follow your leadership and this requires an established relationship of trust. Make sure you get buy in from those who will most likely end up implementing the change. I’m not saying it will come to this, but it is the level of commitment you need to have before you introduce major change.

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Stakeholder Analysis Learning-by-Doing Planning Edmondson 71

Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 8, 2024

To test my assertion, if you are in the first couple years of leading church revitalization, see if any of these apply: You wake up some days and don’t know if you can do it anymore. There are no guarantees and no perfect formulas to follow. You have to decide if you are going to outlast the tension change naturally creates.

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Edmondson Follow-up Course Leadership 73

Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Good leaders ask follow up questions to make sure they understand the question being asked – and ultimately the concern being expressed. It may or may not be the fault of the leader which causes the “real” question not to be asked, but good leaders look beyond what’s being verbalized.

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Edmondson Advice Follow-up Motivation 64

Ron Edmondson

MARCH 19, 2024

It just sprang up as culture. People follow leaders they trust. I was raised to believe they had “uniforms” of black suits and white shirts. Since then I’ve read that they never had a policy of a strict dress code. I also read that changing the IBM culture took years.

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Objective Edmondson Resistance Definition 66

Ron Edmondson

MARCH 28, 2023

So, when Jesus needed to feed the multitudes, He lifted up the bread and fish and prayed. Dear Lord , grant me wisdom to make decisions big and small and conviction to follow You when it contradicts my desires or the demands of others. Give me discernment and surround me with wise people who follow You and can speak into my life.

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Edmondson Reputation Follow-up Planning 64

Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This is a valuable follow up question, especially when you’ve delegated a task or given someone a responsibility. I have used this question to find out how I can help people in their next career step outside the organization. Do you understand what I’m saying/asking you to do?

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Power Brainstorming Delegation Edmondson 72

Ron Edmondson

JULY 19, 2022

There are certainly times when the delegate drops the ball and doesn’t follow through with the task, but in my experience, the failure of delegation most often rests with the leader. They need a system of follow up, measures of accomplishment or benchmarks towards completion. Not everyone is up to every task.

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Delegation Benchmarking Project Edmondson 57

Ron Edmondson

MARCH 22, 2021

But what about those who follow leadership? Failing to follow through. And, every great idea is just an idea until someone follows through with a plan of accomplishment. Obviously, this requires a vision worth following and a leader worthy of following. Without people to lead there is no need for leadership.

Leadership 83

Leadership Loyalty Edmondson Follow-up 83

Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 9, 2022

He didn’t make up the saying, but he’s learned in his 80 plus years of experience how true a statement it is. The moral value of the church and staff follows closely behind its senior leadership. And, Christian leaders, set the bar in our church for many things which happen in the church. Completing goals and objectives.

Organization 60

Organization Creativity Idea Generation Objective 60

Ron Edmondson

JULY 6, 2022

Don’t be afraid to speak up for the more vulnerable. They keep their head down, follow all the rules, and almost literally walk on egg shells. You might be the only voice they have and you would likely want someone to do it for you. Standing for others will help you better stand. Jump before you have to.

Leadership 71

Leadership Edmondson Learning-by-Doing Environment 71

Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

I can’t get people to follow my lead. Well, we may have to check our leadership definition, but don’t give up. Most people will follow someone if you’re taking them somewhere they need to go, but aren’t sure how to get there. I can’t keep up! Leaders have to learn to pace themselves.

Learning Curve 85

Learning Curve Follow-up Delegation Edmondson 85

Ron Edmondson

JUNE 22, 2023

In fact, I can come up with lots of ways I’ve seen that stop a church from growing. In fact, I can come up with lots of ways I’ve seen that stop a church from growing. It’s relatively easy to keep things small or stop a church from growing. We could almost do nothing and achieve it.

Resistance 75

Resistance Comparison Edmondson Learning-by-Doing 75

Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 3, 2022

The church often ends up in a panic mode and it negatively impacts staff, lay leadership and the congregation. If you follow this blog at all you know I encourage good leadership. Catch up on the previous episodes HERE. The pastor held too many things close-fisted that no one really knows how to continue current operations.

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Long-term Edmondson Follow-up Consultative 74

Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In fact, I ended up taking a short-term interim pastor position for a softer landing. I grew up in the church where my parents and grandparents attended. We saw churches that had greeters, but the greeters didn’t smile and they were usually busy catching up with people they already knew. Follow up matters.

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Class Follow-up Short-term Bottom-up 75

Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Follow through when everyone else is stalling. You hit your lid as a leader when you give up, give in or sell out. . You hit your lid as a leader when you give up, give in or sell out. . Thankfully, leaders who are followers of Christ don’t have to find this strength on our own. Stand strong! (1

Leadership 75

Leadership Consultative Edmondson Travel 75

Ron Edmondson

MARCH 17, 2022

They’ll make up their own if you do – and it’s usually not the conclusion you want them to reach. We certainly need to be able to trust people we are supposed to follow. Follow through on what you say you will do. Be the quality of person you would want to follow. Information is powerful. Be trustworthy.

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Management Leadership Learning-by-Doing Bond 62

Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 24, 2023

When I haven’t followed this one it has usually turned out to be a mistake. I don’t follow my own advice here often enough, but I’ve learned if my gut is telling me to “ keep a tight rein on my tongue “, it’s likely to be a Biblical conviction. Email and text are misunderstood far too many times.

Learning Curve 77

Learning Curve Commitment Consensus Learning-by-Doing 77

Ron Edmondson

JULY 30, 2020

She said the reason she struggles to follow her pastor is he isn’t off stage who he claims to be on stage. This likely means not over committing so you can follow through on commitments made. It helps people learn you’re worthy to follow. Everyone trying to follow a leader knows the flaws of the leader.

Leadership 59

Leadership Delegation Edmondson Follow-up 59

Ron Edmondson

JUNE 9, 2022

I grew up much of my childhood without a father in the home. ” Dads can give a child the ability to stand for what’s right, rather than following the crowd. The gumption to follow through on commitments. Dads have the ability to gift their child a follow through mentality. I love being a dad.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Commitment Follow-up Edmondson 62

Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 10, 2021

I learned, however, mostly because of follow up questions, that sometimes this was a question looking for some inside scoop, a scandal of sorts, a church split – that kind of thing. (Meeting in homes during the week – that’s so first century ). How did this thing get started?”. Many times this was an innocent question.

Edmondson 79

Edmondson Follow-up Course Leadership 79

Ron Edmondson

MARCH 9, 2021

Every new leader needs someone who believes in them, mentors them, and helps them get back up when they fall. Giving up the right to control. The time may initially feel unproductive to driven leaders, but it ends up being among the most productive use of their time. (I You can’t control every outcome. Bouncing attention.

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Mentor Follow-up Delegation Edmondson 74

Ron Edmondson

MAY 28, 2020

Some of the most vocal opponents to changes we made in church revitalization were simply rule-followers. When we didn’t follow them exactly they objected. ” They didn’t think we were following the written (or sometimes unwritten) rules. He then told me he was upset because we hadn’t followed the rules.

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Committee Objective Follow-up Policies 49

Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 6, 2021

If people are willing to jump ship before they even have their future income lined up, it is often a sign of a toxic culture. The toxic culture basically mutes them and they never live up to their full potential. They simply give up trying. Therefore, I have very little sympathy towards a toxic leadership culture.

Leadership 75

Leadership Edmondson Letter Review 75

Ron Edmondson

APRIL 4, 2017

We forget people are trying to follow. We get so caught up in our own world we forget people we are trying to lead are trying to follow us. Have you ever tried to follow someone in a car? In a similar way it is with a team or organization when the leader forgets people are trying to follow.

Leadership 56

Leadership Self-aware Follow-up Short-term 56

Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 5, 2021

But when I do meet with them, I end up repeating leadership insights I have given many times previously. . When I say something to one pastor, I usually end up repeating it to another shortly afterwards. They beat themselves up because things aren’t changing fast enough. Jesus had lots of followers.

Leadership 83

Leadership Edmondson Energy Comparison 83

Ron Edmondson

JUNE 27, 2022

Granted, the Holy Spirit must show up and God must be glorified, but I n general terms, there are components in church revitalization, which I believe need to be in place to be effective. Many of these churches wouldn’t follow Jesus well either. The pastor needs these people to help guide change and stand up to the naysayers.

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Short-term Energy Edmondson Follow-up 61

Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

We forget that people are trying to follow. We get so caught up in our own world that we forget people we are trying to lead are trying to follow. Have you ever tried to follow someone in a car? Some leaders get so passionate about what they are thinking and doing that they forget others are trying to keep up with them.

Leadership 78

Leadership Self-aware Follow-up Short-term 78