Leadership lessons Part 2

Learning Posture

Effective Leaders Maintain A Learning Posture Throughout Life.

The ability to learn from the Bible, current events, people, reading, ministry experience, and other sources in such a way as to affect one’s leadership is fundamental to being an effective leader. Flexible leaders usually do have a good learning posture (has to do with an attitude, a mental stance toward learning). Inflexible leaders are not usually active learners. God will bring into a leader’s life necessary information and wisdom to meet leadership situations if that leader is open to learning. Leadership is dynamic. Changing situations demand that a leader be constantly learning. One of the five major factors identified with leaders who finish well is a good learning posture.

A leader ought to be continually learning from a wide variety of sources in order to cope effectively with life and ministry. A good learning posture is one of the enhancements toward a good finish. It is also the key to
ministry insights, paradigm shifts, and other leadership lessons that can make the difference in effective on-going leadership.

Biblical Examples: Daniel, the classic Old Testament leader, models an exemplary learning posture. The Apostle Paul does the same in the New Testament.