Live Blog From The 2014 Global Leadership Summit – 18 Leadership Quotes From Joseph Grenny

In an effort to add maximum value to pastors and church leaders, INJOY Stewardship Solutions has dispatched me to attend the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit.  During these two days, I will be bringing some of the top leadership lessons from the incredible faculty the WCA has assembled.

The second day’s first speaker was Joseph Grenny, Co-Founder of VitalSmarts.  The following are 18 leadership quotes and lessons from his challenging session:

1. The power of the group is the function of the purity of its motives.
2. Are there moments of disproportionate influence?  Moments where how someone behaves has an enormous effect on every result you care about?
3. Anytime you find yourself stuck, stop and ask, “What crucial conversations are we not holding or not holding well?”
4. It can take four seconds for a conversation to go from casual to crucial.
5. When it matters most, you and I tend to do our worst.
6. At three or four years old, we believe a myth that you often have to choose between telling the truth and keeping a friend.  Truth telling means losing friends.
7. Progress begins by unwinding this myth.
8. You can measure the health of a team or organization by measuring the undiscussables.
9. Your job as a leader is to model, coach and measure the small number of conversations that determine the progress of organizations.
10. Crucial conversations are a pit or a path.
11. Crucial conversations can become an acceleration of intimacy.
12. 73% of churches who have crucial conversations do better in church growth.
13. Your job as a leader is to identify the two or three conversations which affect the health of your organization.
14. The vital behavior that enables most any positive organizational outcome is candor at moment of acute emotional and political risk.
15. Individual influence is highly determined by your ability to have crucial conversations.
16. Seven crucial skills – Start with Heart, Learn to Look, Make it Safe, State my Path, Explore others’ Path, and Move To Action.
17. You have two things you can do in the Hazardous Half-Minute – Mutual Purpose: You know that I care about your goals.  Mutual Respect – You know that I care about you.  This is mutual respect.
18. People never become defensive about what you’re saying.  People become defensive because of why they think you’re saying it.

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