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The AfterHours Experience...catch the Vibe!

I would like to thank each of you who caught the VIBE with us last Friday night in The AfterHours Experience. I would like to give a special thanks to our acoustic musician Karin Haase who gave us some music to vibe with. We also had a great intervention/detox session as we peeled back the label on the bottle of crazy pills in our life. We had over 6o people that engaged in a spiritual conversation about how busyness, distractions, and breaking points drive us out of balance and make us go crazy.

I would like to give you a REWIND RECAP and offer a few solutions in dealing with the cRaZy PiLL in your life. Here are key scriptures and questions to contemplate as you decide if you are willing to detox off the CRAZY PILL:

Key Scripture: (Luke 10:38-41).

The Big Question: Why do we do what we do?

Second Big Question: What are your priorities?                                                                                   
How do we define our Priorities?

1. What’s Required of you?
   So the question you must ask yourself then is,“What must I do that nobody can or should do for me?
2. What gives the greatest Return?
   We all should be attempting to work in the area of our greatest strength.
3. What brings the greatest Reward?
   “There are many things that will catch my eye, but only a few things that will catch my heart.”

In order to effectively implement and answer these questions we must continually:
1. STOP the “STUFF”
2. Be Quiet
3. And make a connection with Jesus.

Other Questions to Consider:
• Is there any activity I need to stop?
• Is there a relationship I need to give less time to?
• Are there things that need be less of a priority?

What are we missing?

Our AfterHours Friday night vibe is a creative, artistic, conversational environment intentionally designed to inspire adults to CONNECT, both spiritually with God and to each other...

In the AfterHours environment we value the question, "What are we missing?"  As a leader, I've learned to give the people on my team the permission to critique, ask tough questions, and be honest about potential problems they may see in the AfterHours environment.  I need to be able to know as a leader, What are we missing in our environment?  It has become an important part of my leadership experience to engage the opinions of the people on my team quickly, and have them give me feedback to, Was this the best way to do this or that? 

One might think, What's new about that concept, most leaders value that kind of feedback.  My response, Do they?...I mean do they really engage and empower that type of thinking and questioning?  I believe many leaders go through a "type" of formality when attempting to get critical and honest input from their team (key word: FORMALITY).  Many leaders will hear their teams opinions and feedback, but never really do anything with or implement the  information that was given to change a service, program, environment or organizational system.

However, the best kind of leaders are the ones who confidently and tenaciously INVITE the opinions and critiques of the people of their team.  The best leaders don't invite this process out of some bunk staffing formality.  They do it because they know if they don't get input from others on their team it can lead to disaster for the environment or organization.  Many times people on teams fear being honest with top leaders about potential problems, because the top leader has never really given the permission (and created a staffing culture) for team members to ask hard questions, or give their opinions even if they disagree with the top leader.

 

What's your experience?

Does your team engage the question, "What are we missing?"