Coaching Dream Teams

Today we spent time with Bill Easum. His message title was "Going from Good to Great Teams." There was a lot of good stuff. We had some good interaction with the youth pastors and the other reps from our Rocky Mountain District. Here are some highlights:

1. Dream teams have permission giving attitudes: in the essentials they have unity i.e. Mission, Vision, Values and Beliefs; in the non-essentials, they have freedom i.e. productivity. But in all things they have love i.e. trust, collaboration and networking.

2. Dream teams are servant empowered. They are more focused on developing leaders than on an actual productivity. They value leadership development above all else. The primary goal of coaches of Dream Teams is the raising up of future leaders, not achieving, not achieving some particular goal. Failure to understand this one point is one of the main reasons Dream Teams are seldom found in any organization.

3. The servant empowered organization is not focused on accomplishing projects, but growing leaders who can accomplish projects. Time invested in growing and equipping leaders is always valuable. Even if there is a temporary reduction in productivity, it is better to invest in leadership development for the long term success of the organization.

A lot of us resonated with #3.