We had Ian Green with us for our Church planting School(CpS), it was excellent. By the way we will be taking this on the road. Maybe you want to have a Seminar (evening & a day) in your area, let me know and we will come an add our voice to your voice. 

Ian spoke on leadership. Here are his six traits a church planter or any leader CANNOT delegate. I have put my own words around it. 

1. Decision making

Be Decisive, not making a decision is making one, and most likely it will not be a good option. Make a decision. Even a wrong decision can be better than not making one. As a leader you make a commitment to make a decision. Your team will increase in frustration if you don't. There are whole seminars & books on decision making. But find out ALL the facts and information you can, leave no stone unturned and then there comes a time when you need to make a decision.

2. Communication

It is always Christian to communicate! Put words and STORIES around your dream, vision, goals and strategy. It will create understanding among the people you are leading. 

3. Motivating

Be the catalyst, leaders inspire, encourage and ignite something in the hearts of people, it's called motivating. What is the WHY? Why are we doing this thing again? Why are working such long hours for so little pay? Why are we pushing ahead with this idea? What is behind doing this event? Leaders, you can't delegate this to somebody else. Leaders, when you feel inspired and encouraged how do you feel? Allow that feeling to invade the people you lead. 

4. Selecting People

First find, gather and then identify the unique gifting’s of your people. There are so many gift analysis tools online one can use. Your job is to find people to do what needs to be done. But it doesn't stop there...

5. Developing People

The objective is to grow bigger people, larger people, holistically. When people leave your team are they bigger and larger on the inside. Big people grow big people. Large organisations, churches and businesses don't just happen, it is intentional. Leader it begins with you... then...

6. Releasing People

We develop to release people into all that God has for them. Some may outgrow the organisation, no problem. Some need to be released into other areas as their leadership capacity grows. Some need to move out and plant their own business or church. No problem, the key it to release, not hold on. There is a Maori proverb that says, "It's all about people, people, people". It's not about the organisation, or church. Of course we have a job to do, but watching and releasing people is allowing the organisation, business or church to breath. Let it be dynamic... keep submitted to the Holy Spirit. 

Application:

Maybe this topic would be great to discuss with your leadership team. Get them to rate themselves on how they feel they are tracking in these traits, 1 = low;  5 = high. If there is enough openness with your leaders, maybe ask them to rate one another...Maybe that's too radical????