Senior Leader Responsibilities
Luke Kuepfer • March 20, 2020
In recent posts, we have been discussing the importance of creating a compelling organizational vision statement. Once the vision has been agreed upon, it is up to the senior leader to support followers as they implement it. Furthermore, senior leaders ought to maintain an ongoing review process for all policies, procedures, and systems. For example, over time certain issues or strategies can become irrelevant or unnecessary. Ensuring that these all come up for review or have expiration dates attached to them when first initiated will prevent bureaucratic inefficiencies, excesses, and loss of focus.
Senior leader responsibilities could be summed up as:
- Removing barriers that prevent the achievement of the vision.
- Providing training, resources, and accountability to ensure the successful implementation of the vision.
- Revising and/or eliminating programs, policies, and procedures that no longer support the vision and mission.
[Next week we will begin the DOING section of Achieving Organizational Effectiveness with a discussion on leaders as shepherds and stewards.]
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Organizations allow individuals to work together to accomplish things that they could not accomplish by themselves.
God wants each of us and the organizations we lead to always strive to do everything in an excellent and effective manner.
A long-range (strategic) plan serves as a “road map” to help us achieve the mission and vision that God has given us.
Leaders who develop followers grow their organization only one person at a time. But leaders who develop leaders multiply their growth.
A leader that leads, loves, and serves like Jesus must learn to use their power and influence to serve others and accomplish the mission God has given them.
Wisdom can be defined as having experience, knowledge, and good judgment. Wisdom is that character trait that enables one to live an exceptional life.
Decisions reveal the values of a leader and require obedience and dependence on God. They demand wisdom. Making decisions affects just about everything leaders do.
It is one thing for a leader to have a vision; it is quite another thing to be able to effectively communicate that vision to others so that they will embrace and internalize it.
Godly leaders must first have a vision of who God is, the future He holds for them, and a sense of what He has called them to do.
