Why Openhanded Leadership is Key to a Healthy Culture — From the Vault
Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast
Andy Stanley
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In this rebroadcasted episode from 2015, Joel Thomas and I discuss why openhanded leadership is about modeling and creating culture. One of the most difficult places to maintain openhanded leadership is when key employees make the decision to leave the organization. Leaders must prioritize the person over the organization. Joel Thomas returned to North Point Ministries in Sept. 2021 as Lead Pastor of Buckhead Church, a role he continues to serve in.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast, a conversation designed to help leaders go |
| 0:10.0 | further faster. |
| 0:11.5 | On today's podcast, we'll explore what happens when a key staff member leaves the team. |
| 0:17.0 | Landing normally on the podcast, we start with the principal and then find stories in our organization |
| 0:21.8 | to illustrate it, but today's conversation actually |
| 0:24.8 | started with a story and we thought it'd make a great, great podcast. |
| 0:28.0 | Yeah, you know, one of the things I love about organization, we're, we just started our |
| 0:32.1 | 20th year, so we're 19 years old and we have a lot of |
| 0:34.7 | staff who've been here 10 years 15 years every time we get together as a |
| 0:38.1 | organization we celebrate 10 year and 15 year anniversary so So that's a lot of fun. |
| 0:43.2 | But from time to time, you know, people who've been here a long time |
| 0:46.6 | transition off the team. |
| 0:47.7 | And today's story really revolves around a team member |
| 0:50.0 | who's been here for 16 and a half years, who's transitioning off the team and less to our audience think we're talking |
| 0:56.0 | about him behind his back he's actually here in the studio with us to help us |
| 1:01.0 | tell his story now before we jump into this, I realize, depending on what you do |
| 1:05.4 | in what industry you're in, there are rules sometimes around how people leave |
| 1:09.4 | when people leave. |
| 1:10.1 | I know I have friends in the financial industry who when they change companies once that becomes known they know that immediately |
| 1:16.3 | You know they come take their key card they watch them clean out their desk they walk them to the door |
| 1:21.4 | They don't leave with you drives, they don't leave with laptops, and that's |
| 1:25.3 | understandable because there are industries where security is such a big deal that there's |
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