Are you a Strategic Christian Leader?

  • Are you responsible for leading the church through COVID?

  • Driving technological transformation across your organization?

  • Growing an online presence?

  • Maintaining members?

A well-crafted strategy can be the difference between success and failure. Yet, leaders struggle to move beyond just direction setting and establishing goals. However, they should seek to transform their organization to thrive in the new environment.

 Strategic Christian leaders require different perspectives.

 Natural and Spiritual. Strategic decisions impact areas outside the church and marketplace. Influential strategic Christian leaders see the natural and spiritual objectives connected, impacting individuals and communities to advance the kingdom.

 Future-focused. Strategic work takes place over long periods. Strategic Christian leaders operate with a longer view in mind, integrating short-term wins linked to larger natural and spiritual objectives.

 Change-oriented. Strategic Christian leaders are change agents—their work impacts the church and marketplace.

 For example, an excellent church service may require great teamwork — a critical leadership task — but it doesn’t necessarily need a strategy.

 Christian leaders looking to become more strategic must ask themselves these questions:

•           What do I need to focus on?

•           How do I orchestrate a strategic plan?

•           How do I implement it?

•           How do I lead change?

 Samuel Hayes Ministries help develop the mindset required to be a strategic Christian leader by leveraging decades of experience—across 12 different countries among three continents as a military officer and businessman, scholar, and minister.  

 Strategic Christian leaders do the following:

 Think. Start with understanding the complex relationship between the environment and your organization. With that knowledge, you can make decisions, aligning your organizational outcomes towards success.

 Act. Regardless of ambiguity, complexity, and chaos, you act decisively and consistently by following the organization’s strategic direction.

 Influence. Strengthen commitment for the strategic direction through others in the strategic process, building relationships inside and outside the organization, and leveraging organizational culture.

 Many Blessings,

 Samuel Hayes, Jr.  

Samuel Hayes