10 Things I’ve Learned Since Becoming Children’s Director – Number 8
The Team is a Reflection of the Leader
Early on I had a close friend who happened to be one of my volunteers tell me “Helen, your team is a reflection of you!” I knew exactly what he meant because I am married to a football coach. I had watched as one coach could take a group of kids and have little to know success on the football field and then a year later a different coach take those same kids and make them chanmpions, and then watch a different coach the next year, with the same group of kids have a losing season. The kids didn’t change, the leader did! The kids can’t go where the coach doesn’t take them.
See, I loved my job! I loved it! But Sunday morning, the time when a Children’s Director should be all about people, all about the kids, at the top of her game, I was all about stress. I would find myself rushing around like I had lost my mind. I wasn’t operating with any peace or joy. I was simple reacting to whatever circumstances were thrown at me.
My reflection is still not everything I want it to be. There is still a lot I have to work on, things I have to get better at, but as I make changes, I have seen those changes reflected in my team. Sometimes the hardest things to hear turn out to be the greatest lessons. If I didn’t like what I was seeing it was no one’s fault but my own, so only I could fix it!
