I recently received an Ipad for my Birthday. No I'm not bragging. Okay maybe a little, but that's not the point. The point is I have a problem, I have both pc and mac devices. A pc at home, mac at work, android phone and an Ipad. The last thing I want is to limit what I can do because all my platforms are different. What I want is to maximise my effectiveness while using any of the devices. I found a popular and wonderful app called Evernote. With this app I can work on a thought on any of my devices ant the thought is synced to each of them. So if I have an idea in a meeting I can write it in my phone and once I get back to the office pull it up on Evernote and finish it. This is awesome.Now for the leadership application. If your anything like me you spend a lot of time in different roles. This week I was an tech support, graphic designer, teacher, and mentor. It's Tuesday morning! To be an effective leader I need to be able to streamline all that data into one place. This is done by having a strong vision for the kind of leader you want to be. For me it is wanting to have a teachers heart in all that I do. So if I am designing, I want to teach through it and teach someone how to do it, if I am fixing a tech issue then I will be teaching someone else how to fix it, if it is teaching in a service I want to show someone how I am crafting that service. The baseline or the syncing of my information is to Teach. If I can do that I don't loose sight of who I am and what I am supposed to be about. If I am not able to teach through it than it's not worth doing. As well as having tremendous personal impact on how I do things. I think this mentality can have profound impact on how organizations do things.
Maybe you feel like you wear to many hats or are stretched to thin. I would encourage you to find the central point of who you are and operate from there. From that point you can work across all platforms and devices. No matter how crazy your job description is.
What is your "main thing"?
How can you "snyc"?
Can your church reach across platforms?
What needs to happen to instill this process?
