Welcome to the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast. My name is Pete Couserro. Great to be with you.

Our topic today is the three biggest mistakes we make in developing leaders. The three biggest

mistakes we make in developing leaders. Now, this is one of the most important topics for every church,

every ministry, every organization, every nonprofit, for profit, every family.

How are we going to raise up leaders? Now, I'm not talking about leaders in the broad sense.

I mean, the broad sense of leaders is anybody who has influence on other people, which really

is pretty much everyone's a leader. But I'm really referring to raising up leaders in the narrower sense

of the definition that I, my favorite definition of leadership, which comes from a guy

named Bob Beale. It says there's a leader is someone who knows what to do next, why it's

important, and how to bring the appropriate resources for the need at hand. It's a great definition.

A leader knows what to do next, why it's important, and then how to bring the appropriate resources to bear on that problem or on

that issue. Now, the church needs leaders, every ministry needs leaders, but that gift must be nurtured.

It must be developed. And the future of any ministry or any church,

of course, depends on it. So here's my three. And I was reflecting on what have been my biggest

mistakes that I've made over these years, and I have really three. And I see them not just simply

in my own life, but I actually see them around me as well. So the first is this. In developing

leaders, we often, one, we minimize

the centrality of our being. We minimize the centrality of our being. In other words, who we actually are.

That is the core of all leadership development. In other words, now, in a sense, everything we do

and all that we are is leadership development.

In other words, we think of developing leaders of, okay, here's some content I want to bring

them through.

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