Strengthening a Struggling Team – Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast
This is, the Craig Groeschel leadership podcast. (lively music) Welcome to the Craig Groeschel leadership podcast. I’m so thankful that you join us again this month, thank you for being a part of our leadership community. We honestly believe that when the leader gets better everyone gets better. Maybe you’re new with us, if you are we release a brand new teaching on the first Thursday of every single month.
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I do understand that a lot of you are going through this teaching with your teams. I want to encourage you on this particular one especially I think it could be incredibly helpful to gather your core leaders around you and talk about some of the issues. I think it can be really really really helpful. So let me tell you what we’re gonna do today.
I’m gonna answer a couple of questions. If you have any questions at all you can always email me at leadership@life.church. Maybe you have suggestions of, what you’d like to hear about, questions, comments or ideas email me anytime leadership@life.church. Also if you want the show notes , we’ll be happy to send you those show notes every single month, just let us know that you’d like them.
I’m going to answer two of your questions then we’re gonna dive into some new content. At the end we’re gonna review the content so it will hopefully stick better and then I want to bring some application questions. This is probably the most important thing that we do, is we take what we learn and then we try to apply it so, hang with me to the end, I’ll try to work hard to keep the content impactful and also do it in 25 minutes or less.
Let’s dive into one of the questions that came in. This was from someone who’s anonymous. Anonymous is also non-confrontational. Someone asked this question because, “I’m not a confrontational person, “I’m having to battle my desire “not to hurt anyone’s feelings “and yet do what’s best for the organization.
“I realize that I’m being stretched in growing in this role “but it’s hard for me to practice or grow “in my leadership on real people. “What are some steps that you would suggest “that can help me overcome this struggle.” Well let me just say first of all, this is a very common struggle. Very few people are naturally confrontational.
In fact, if you’re naturally confrontational, you’re probably not a very nice person so, let’s just recognize this is a common issue. Part of the problem I believe is that, confrontation gets a bad rap. The word confrontation it just, it almost has a bad feel to it. Maybe if we rebrand the idea, it might be a little bit easier to get your mind around.
Let’s reframe the idea of confronting and let’s consider it more coaching or simply telling the truth. If you follow my logic you’ll see why confronting others is actually a really good thing to do. What is telling the truth? Telling the truth is one of the most loving things that you can do. If you don’t tell the truth, that’s not loving, telling the truth is loving.
What is confronting? Well confronting is simply telling somebody the truth. Therefore confronting somebody with the right attitude or the right heart or the right motives, it’s actually a very loving thing to do. In any organization if you care about somebody you’re gonna care enough to tell them the truth.
If you care about your organization, you’re gonna care enough to confront. Now, knowing that might help give you the courage to do the right thing but it still may be difficult to do. How do we learn to confront people? What I would suggest is that you actually role play this. This is something I’ve done many times, is find somebody that I know and trust and actually talk it through.
