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Tag: Borg

[virtuous-leadership-school] F4 LDP

AO: virtuous-leadership-school
Q: Mermaid
PAX: Pebbles(Kenaniah Rush), Mermaid, Spinner, McFly, Otis, Borg, Skeletor
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
The is morning we took Virtuous Leadership on the road. We started at 0600 and kept the cadence of our Sunday morning meeting. We met at the Victory lodge at Wafloy Mountain Retreat. This was during the Forg3 retreat where we studied Virtuous Leadership in the context of q.1 get right, q.2 live right, q.3 lead right, and q.4 leave right.

We did our study of LDP (the leadership development process) as a lead in to studying lead right with Borg . The LDP focuses on another acronym SAOF which stands for:

Schooling – essentially what we are doing with Virtuous Leadership
Apprenticeship- once you have been educated, you work alongside someone who is a leader
Opportunity- you get to practice being a leader
Failure- you have to fail or “court minor disaster” in order to improve leadership. Essentially learn through a series of mistakes.

We were a little slow and sleep deprived to get started. But as per the usual, this was another highly impactful meeting that even with a location change and new faces, we still managed to enlightening conversation that sharped iron.

As guys woke up, our numbers grew and we had lots of participation towards the end. We discuss the SAOF approach and how it applied to being a leader at work and especially with our kids.

Two quotes from Dr Brad Greene who I listened to in a leadership presentation this week.

“We can waste time, but time is never wasted”

When we are empowering a new leader, it takes time and feels like a waste because we can do it faster and easier. But that investment is not wasted time in the long run when you have developed a new leader.

“Fail cheaply”

When I asked Dr Greene about the best way to train a young leader, like my kids, as they don’t teach leadership directly in college. His reply was that kids, or new leaders need to be provided opportunities to fail cheaply. A brand new driver doesn’t need and expensive sports car or luxury vehicle. When the inevitable car accident, bad parking job, or fender bender occurs, that is the opposite of failing cheaply.

Today was an amazing morning, and I am a better man for sharing the insights we had this morning.

[virtuous-leadership-school] Waffle House

AO: virtuous-leadership-school
Q: Mermaid
PAX: Borg, Spellcheck, Baby Boomer
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
This week’s QPoint (4.7) was Equipping. We had great discussion about putting a team together that plays to each members strengths, rather than teaching skills where we are weak. We had a dynamic conversation about marriage and the “mission” & “submission”. I think we all continue to be amazed at how relevant this material and subsequent conversation this is every single week. This is a time worth the sacrifice on Sunday AM.

[mountainbiking] Sharps Saturday

AO: mountainbiking
Q: Tank (Chris DeFranco)
PAX: Borg, Sambo, Tank (Chris DeFranco), @Buzzard
FNGs: 1 @Buzzard
COUNT: 4
WARMUP: n/a

THE THANG: loop around Lincoln, up sharp shin and down Firebreak. Up the road to then down independence. We lost Borg so I climbed back up on the bike and back down. Then we took Lincoln around to the backside and found him. Climbed back up push line and rode down nightfall. Times back up, sharpen and pitch black

MARY:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: none

COT: don’t live in fear of losing your salvation. Have trust and hope in God‘s perfect redemption of our sins. “Jesus died for us while we were still sinners.”

[virtuous-leadership-school] Team Development (delayed post)

AO: virtuous-leadership-school
Q: Borg
PAX: Spellcheck, Mermaid, Borg
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
WARMUP: Prayer, coffee and a fire

THE THANG:
Discussed Team Development in real life. Below are some interesting questions brought up by the PAX that can reflect on both the leadership and members of a team.

– John Pryne lyrics – “How can you work all day, come home and have nothing to say?” Like men sitting in a bible study group week after week and never saying anything.
– If guys don’t have something to say, what are they studying? Who are they interacting with? What’s on their mind?

How do you know if you are on mission as a team? Failure is easy to see, but what does success look like? This brought up the recurring issues of
– Being Aware
– Evaluating
– Adjusting

Maybe one of the most important things in Team Development is removing the wrong people, soon enough. We discussed times we had chronic problems with team members and how the delegation (or lack of delegation) of responsibility to us helped, hindered, or blocked resolution.

Some men seem to see F3 as a club, not as a team- what’s the difference? Others seem to see it as a team and make adjustments to the Qs to fit the team needs and capabilities.

How you communicate and how it is received are both critical to staying on mission.

We discussed the 80/1 Rule that was described in this chapter. The 1% cannot be delegated.

We discussed how we had dealt with situations where we were put in charge, but not allowed to set the standards or given the authority to make corrections with chronic problem team members.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Forg3 Leadership registration is open – Jan 24-26. Limited to 20 PAX due to the facility. Registrations are filling up.
– EFHR is coming up in the Spring, possibly in March.
– 3324 Leadership Summit and CSAUP is new and coming up, possibly in April. This will be a continuation of the leadership development that is growing in our local regions.

COT: Closing prayer and lots of good talk after the closing bell.