Greatest Hurdle

[its_brad]

What is the greatest hurdle to more mentoring and reproduction of leadership, and why?

[mknewell]

It seems as though one of the greatest obstacles to more mentoring and developments is a combination of lack of time as well as lack of desire.
We often believe that we are too busy to take a few hours out of our week to spend time with individuals either in our church or organizationthat we work for. We are so focused on what needs to be done currently, we are not able to think about the future, that is, the leadership of the future.
Another hurdle is that we lack the desire to put forth the effor thtat comes in raising up a leader. We think that that is someone else's job and htat it does not concern us. The truth is that if one is in any type of leadership position, if they care about the welfare of the place in which they lead, they should make the task of raising up leaders a priority.

[wendywatts]

I believe that this greatest hurdle is time. I have heard it said by many leaders that they would love to mentor individuals but they just did not have the time. There are so many tasks that ministers need to do each day and I believe that sometimes they feel overwhelmed which in turn gives the since of any less time. I believe that time management skills or more awareness of where time goes would be helpful to remedy this. Granted sometimes the “time” excuse may an excuse leader’s use when they don’t really want to be in mentoring relationships. Cause sometimes they may not have any desire to mentor new leaders or may feel this next generation has no hope.

[wendywatts]

It seems as though one of the greatest obstacles to more mentoring and developments is a combination of lack of time as well as lack of desire.
We often believe that we are too busy to take a few hours out of our week to spend time with individuals either in our church or organizationthat we work for. We are so focused on what needs to be done currently, we are not able to think about the future, that is, the leadership of the future.
Another hurdle is that we lack the desire to put forth the effor thtat comes in raising up a leader. We think that that is someone else's job and htat it does not concern us. The truth is that if one is in any type of leadership position, if they care about the welfare of the place in which they lead, they should make the task of raising up leaders a priority.

Miriam, I agree with everything you said! I do believe that time is the major factor in lack of mentoring. I know that there are great ideas and suggestions in books and websites about how to make time, but I wonder if minister or leaders who even take the time to use such practices.

[jerrywebb2]

What is the greatest hurdle to more mentoring and reproduction of leadership, and why?

What I see as the greatest hurdle is the fact that we often get swallowed up in our own priorities and focus on the list of things that we have to get done. The problem is that we do not prioritize the development of other leaders. I believe this comes from a society that is too focused on “me” and not focused enough on “we.” When we stop and think about the importance of the future of the Church we should realize how important it is to focus on our up and coming leaders.

[jerrywebb2]

It seems as though one of the greatest obstacles to more mentoring and developments is a combination of lack of time as well as lack of desire.
We often believe that we are too busy to take a few hours out of our week to spend time with individuals either in our church or organizationthat we work for. We are so focused on what needs to be done currently, we are not able to think about the future, that is, the leadership of the future.
Another hurdle is that we lack the desire to put forth the effor thtat comes in raising up a leader. We think that that is someone else's job and htat it does not concern us. The truth is that if one is in any type of leadership position, if they care about the welfare of the place in which they lead, they should make the task of raising up leaders a priority.


I agree that lack of time and desire are two factors that most often keep leaders from mentoring and training new leaders. You pointed out that we often “believe” that we are too busy. This is something that we tell ourselves to justify not doing something that we don’t want to do. We too easily focus on our tasks or ministry that we want to develop and forget that to be in ministry is to serve others. I believe we have a responsibility as leaders to serve others by developing new leaders. We minister to the body of believers and by helping to develop new leaders we are building up the Church. This should be a vital part of ministry.