Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

As I write this I’m preparing to meet with someone with much more experience in leadership than me. Wisdom is critical to the field of good leadership. Being wise in leadership comes with time and experience. Frankly, I have known few in leadership whom I would consider truly wise. Wise leaders are true delegators.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 25, 2024

So, building and maintaining trust is critical to good leadership. I’ve found trust develops over time and experience – as we witness trustworthy behavior. It means you must empower, delegate, and give authority to people. Check out my leadership podcast where we discuss leadership nuggets in a practical way.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 20, 2021

In my experience, it’s easier to hide bad leadership when an organization isn’t growing. However, the more growth that occurs the more bad leadership becomes apparent. As a leader for the last several decades, I’ve learned my leadership is stretched most when we are growing the fastest. Resources are stretched.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 22, 2017

I’m a fan of delegation. In fact, I consider myself somewhat of a professional delegator, if there is such a thing. I certainly love to delegate. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does it can be one of the more difficult and awkward parts of leadership. Make sure you delegate well. What do you do?

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This is a valuable follow up question, especially when you’ve delegated a task or given someone a responsibility. It forces people to dialogue about creating something new or developing something existing. Check out my leadership podcast where we discuss issues of leadership in a practical way. It fuels momentum.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

I have held a senior leadership position for over 30 years and been in leadership over 40 years. When I was a mid-level manager in a large corporation, I remember questioning why senior leadership made some of the decisions they did. All leadership is challenging, but the senior position is a pressure unlike any other.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 25, 2012

What is a key to successful delegation? Don’t just delegate responsibility. Delegate authority. In healthy delegation, you have already helped them determine what a win looks like. And, the reward is far greater than a project not properly delegated. Related posts: The Part Of Delegation Most Leaders Neglect.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 19, 2021

Dangerous leadership practices. . A leader can be doing everything else right and one flawed practice overshadows and jeopardizes all the good leadership principles we know. Sometimes it’s a systems problem that requires too much of my time and sometimes its a failure to delegate. Leadership can be a lonely job.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

…Trust the one to whom you delegate. I hear from leaders continually who say they don’t delegate, because they don’t trust that the work will be done to their expectations. But, even if you don’t trust the people to whom you should be delegating… don’t avoid delegation. I get that.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I try to create a leadership culture where failure is considered a part of the learning process. I probably could have stepped in earlier to rescue by taking control of the project or delegated to someone else more experienced. There are no clear cut lines on leadership issues like this. appeared first on Ron Edmondson.

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

I have seen, and probably been accused of, dumping responsibilities on people inappropriately and calling it delegation. Also from experience, this form of delegation actually appears to do more harm than good for an organization. In my book Mythical Leader , I share a few stories of delegation gone wrong when I was the leader.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 11, 2022

Over time, I have developed some theories of how someone becomes one. Under a controlling leader’s watch, leadership development is virtually non-existent. I know things which trigger controlling tendencies in my leadership – and, I think if we are honest, all of us leaders can control at times.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 25, 2021

I’ve found trust develops over time and experience – as we witness trustworthy behavior. It means you must empower, delegate, and give authority to people. Join Nate and I for the Ron Edmondson Leadership Podcast. The post 7 Ways to Earn Trust as a Leader appeared first on Ron Edmondson.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 25, 2023

I have held a senior leadership position for over 25 years and been in leadership almost 40 years. When I was a mid-level manager in a large corporation, I remember questioning why senior leadership made some of the decisions they did. All leadership is challenging, but the senior position is a pressure unlike any other.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 1, 2022

I have also learned that the term bottleneck matters in the field of leadership. Leadership in its very definition involves change. The leader never delegates actual authority. Effective delegation isn’t giving people tasks. Potential leaders aren’t developed and deployed – they are controlled.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 30, 2023

I’m overwhelmed from a process, task, and leadership perspective. Develop an organized system of ideas. This requires discipline, but it’s a necessary part of leadership. If possible, delegate some of the ideas. You develop their trust this way and it keeps you from pursuing too many bad ideas.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 21, 2014

And, ineffective in leadership. The fact is, however, that many of us have some lazy tendencies when it comes to leadership. Please understand, I’m not calling a leader lazy who defaults to any of these leadership practices listed. Here are a 7 examples of lazy leadership practices. Not delegating.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 21, 2021

It’s a philosophy of leadership, but it is HUGE. They want someone to take the reigns of leadership and actually do something. Leaders want to join an adventure, then help develop their own tasks to accomplish it. They’ll still need your help to develop structure, discipline and follow through.

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Ron Edmondson

JUNE 23, 2016

The church looks to him to lead and, wisely, he knows he needs to develop his leadership skills. Budgets had been cut, but in my opinion – we had cut some things we shouldn’t have cut – such as marketing and staff development. How can he develop as a leader inexpensively – maybe even free?

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 9, 2023

Too many pastors fail to develop close friendships. They must learn the power of delegation and empowerment and be willing to use it for the good of the church and the Kingdom. Check out my leadership podcast where we discuss issues of leadership nuggets in a practical way. Jesus modeled this for us well.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This is a valuable question to follow up with after you’ve said anything, but especially when you’ve delegated a task or given someone a responsibility. It forces people to dialogue about creating something new or developing something existing. Plus, check out the other Lifeway Leadership Podcasts.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 2, 2022

Over the years, I’ve made plenty of mistakes, but I’ve also managed – in the business world and the church world – to develop some pretty healthy teams. but don’t dictate how they will grow, develop, and lead the small group ministry. Be sure also to check out the other great Lifeway Leadership Podcasts.

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CEO Blog

JULY 8, 2012

This is a guest post by Jessica Edmondson We’ve all been there – that moment when accomplishing a set of daily goals seems about as likely as winning the lottery while vacationing on the sunny shores of the French Riviera. Have you developed a system that allows you to focus your efforts on accomplishing a set of tasks?

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Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 28, 2014

Jesus had an inner circle of leadership. It’s a leadership principle we can learn from and should implement also. The inner circle of Jesus (His disciples) were continually being shaped for leadership and ministry. He expanded His ministry 12-fold by delegating to them. Everyone can be developed. And it was.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Staff development. They cave to the loudest voices and disappear when trouble develops. Instead, they keep people under their authority, never empower, and seldom delegate, because they are afraid of losing their power position. I share this as a check for our own leadership. I hate labeling a pastor weak on anything.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 12, 2021

I try to create a leadership culture where failure is considered a part of the learning process. I probably could have stepped in earlier to rescue by taking control of the project or delegated to someone else more experienced. There are no clear cut lines on leadership issues like this. It’s okay to fail on our team.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Here were 3 suggestions I gave him: Form a peer leadership group – There are people in the community who own small businesses. I’m trying to learn leadership and management practices…not theology…in these groups. Start a book club – Recruit leaders in the community to read a leadership book together.

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

I’ve noticed we confuse a lot of words in leadership. Delegation with assignment – Some leaders I know confuse assigning someone a task with delegating. Delegating is far more than that. Delegating involves much more. Can you think of any other words we confuse in leadership?

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 18, 2019

The church looks to him to lead and, wisely, he knows he needs to develop his leadership skills. Budgets had been cut, but in my opinion we had cut some things we shouldn’t have cut – such as marketing and staff development. How can he develop as a leader inexpensively and maybe even free? Who invests in me?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs? You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs?&# I know, I know - another list? Great question.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 9, 2021

As president of the study body, I quickly realized lots of students and teachers were looking to me for leadership. What in the world does a senior in high school have to add to the field of leadership? Through his leadership of me, I learned a few “secrets” They helped me as student body president.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

I’m a fan of delegation. In fact, I consider myself somewhat of a professional delegator, if there is such a thing. I certainly love to delegate. If you want to read more of my thoughts on delegation, consider: 5 Reasons Delegation Fails. No Dumping: 5 Keys to Effective Delegation. What do you do?

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 24, 2018

Sometimes I think we complicate leadership too much. I often tell leaders who want to improve to think of one or two areas in their organization or church, or in their personal leadership style, that they’d like to improve upon and take some small steps to make something happen in that area. It might and it might not.).

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Ron Edmondson

JUNE 19, 2019

I’ve noticed we confuse a lot of words in leadership. Here are words we often confuse in leadership: Possibility with Probability – Just because something has a chance of happening, doesn’t necessarily mean the chances are good. Delegating is far more than that. Delegating involves much more.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The things I’m going to list have all crippled me during seasons of my leadership. Refusing to delegate. But, this doesn’t mean we allow the dominant voice to be those who aren’t even supportive of leadership or where we are leading. Leadership isn’t needed if we simply manage status quo.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

With this in mind, I’ve observed, in my own personal development, some ways to eliminate time and energy wasters. Refusing to delegate. Check out the Ron Edmondson Leadership Podcast , and subscribe now. The post 7 Ways I Can Waste Time and Energy as a Leader appeared first on Ron Edmondson.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 17, 2017

And, ineffective in leadership. The fact is, however, many of us have some lazy tendencies when it comes to leadership. Please understand, I’m not calling a leader lazy who defaults to any of these leadership practices listed. Here are a 7 examples of lazy leadership practices. Not delegating. .

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