A Leaders Constant Companion - Pt. 2

2. Embrace your pain threshold for making difficult decisions

• If you are a leader, you have to make difficult, painful and often times unpopular decisions
• Perhaps it's killing a ministry that is no longer effective at accomplishing the vision of the organization but still enjoyed by only a few.
• Or maybe it's confronting, rebuking or even removing someone in a leadership position and you will have to deal with major flack and even risk the possibility of them leaving the church and taking people with them.
• Sometimes it requires the leader to even change an employees portfolio that is in the wrong position.
• One of the most painful decisions is having to fire someone for insubordination, character issues, or flat out laziness.
• When you are unwilling to make the tough call you always end up causing more damage to people and the church in the long run.
• Sometimes leaders wait to pull the trigger on painful decisions until the pain of the present situation becomes greater than the pain of making the decision. That's been my achilles heel for far too long. You always end up in more pain.
• The key to making painful decision is to always do what's right in the eyes of God and trust him with the outcome.