337- What is Your Leadership Style

Your leadership style is the way you lead your team, and having an awareness of the style in which you lead can help you as you lead the worship team.

Leadership Style Can Affect Everything!

Leadership style can make a world of difference.  It encompasses how you lead, how you inspire your team, and also how you deal with conflict within your team. There are many different styles of leadership and each has advantages and disadvantages when it comes to leading a team.  Some styles are controlling, some are more empowering for your team, but even this style comes with risks. as a leader, you need to discover your style, and then apply the strengths of your leadership style to bring the best out of your team. So do you inspire your team?  Do you control them to pursue an excellent result? Or do you empower your team to take the lead and inspire others to greatness?  Remember, being a worship leader is not about singing, it is not about playing well, or even about arranging music...  Being a worship leader is about leading your team in a way that inspires and challenges them. In the end, it is all about leadership style! All worship leaders want to make a difference.  All of you reading this want to become great leaders, but frequently excelling in leadership takes courage to inspire, and also allow your team members to make mistakes and grow in their musical gifting. Having the right leadership style for your specific situation can make an enormous difference in your ministry, so listen to this podcast and learn how to lead your team more effectively.  Remember, leadership is not just something you are born to, not something you are trained in, it is something that you can learn and grow into.  Yes, you can learn how to lead your worship team in a more inspiring and influential way, and this pod will help you understand your style and how you can bring the  =best out in and through your ministry...

https://praiseandworshipleader.com/worship-leader-podcast/337-what-is-your-leadership-style/

336- Keeping your Worship Team Inspired and Fired Up!

Keeping your worship team inspired is important at any time, but it becomes even more important as the year rolls on and people become tired and more and more over-committed. So we thought we would put together a special pod to inspire those of you who lead worship teams to keep the team fired up and inspired.

Why is Keeping Your Worship Team Inspired Important?

Every creative person wants to be inspired.  The trouble is that, as the year draws to a close, it is often hard to keep spirits, commitment and excitement up.  People get tired, they get run down, they get distracted and often things like family commitments and work seem to overshadow anything we do in the music team! The great news is that with a little effort you can keep your worship team inspired, fired up and totally committed to the ministry. Simple things can make all the difference as you battle the burnout and bring out the best of your team, both as individuals and together!  Whether it is changing your rehearsals, scheduling social time together or concentrating on sharing your walk with the Lord, there are so many ways you can keep people inspired. And let's face it, who doesn't need to be inspired?  And who doesn't grind down over time? We live in such a busy and crazy world, and every member of your worship team is pulled and dragged all over the place by commitments, relationships, work, business, school and everything else.  It seems almost impossible to remain inspired, but certainly, you can if you do the right things! So settle back and enjoy Darin and Erick as they share their thoughts on how you can keep your worship team inspired and fired up!  A few minor changes and you can set your team up to reach new heights in worship and worship leading over the next year!

https://praiseandworshipleader.com/worship-leader-podcast/336-worship-team-inspired/

335- Spiritual Accountability

Accountability is a huge part of being in a team, and even when you are the worship leader, accountability is essential.

Accountability Improves your Ability

Worship leaders need to be accountable to their pastors, their oversight and even their team members. When you move into a leadership position, submission to those who are directing you is a very important part of your leadership. Many people want to have the top job... they want to control their own decisions and be the master of their own destiny. However, even the guys at the top need to be accountable. Open your Bible and you will see accountability all the way through.  From David to Nehemiah, from Peter to Paul, successful leaders are accountable!  Unsuccessful leaders, people like King Saul and Samson, often had a real issue with accountability, so there is a lesson in there for all of us! In this pod, we discuss who you should be accountable to and why.  the guys share their own stories and reveal some of the horror stories they have built over many years regarding the inability to be accountable to those in authority over them. We also reveal that the best way to grow your ministry is to be accountable to someone else.  In fact, the best way to grow your ministry is to make yourself a servant to someone else's ministry.  The more you serve them, amazingly the Lord opens up and starts to increase your ministry!  After all, Psalm 127:1 (ESV) Unless the Lord builds the house,     those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city,     the watchman stays awake in vain. So don't try and build your ministry in vain!  As you make yourself accountable, God will build something supernatural and awesome.  Just serve, be accountable and watch Him do what He wants to do in your life and ministry! Finally, worship leaders, do not be frightened by accountability, but step up and submit to your oversight. It will serve you well, increase your effectiveness in ministry and make life a whole lot sweeter as you serve the Lord!

https://praiseandworshipleader.com/worship-leader-podcast/335-spiritual-accountability/

333- How to Deliver Criticism and Survive!

Learning how to deliver criticism in a constructive and encouraging way is always a difficult task, especially if you are not someone who enjoys conflict!

Learning How to Deliver Criticism can Make or Break You!

However, if you are to be a leader in worship, you need to deliver criticism at times, so it is worthwhile discovering the best and least explosive way of doing this. How many of you have discovered that musicians and singers are very sensitive to even minor points of correction or criticism? Yes, we are all often very sensitive to this, and this means that learning how to deliver criticism in the right way become an extremely important aspect of leadership within a worship team. Get this wrong and you create a whirlwind of rebellion and tension within the worship team. Get this right, and you can actually create an ally within the team, and also build encouragement and healthy relationships between team members. So it makes sense to learn how to deliver criticism in a way that builds your team and relationships rather than destroys them!  The guys share their own experiences, both being the leader and delivering the critique and also being the one criticised, so you will get a good look at both sided of the coin in this exciting podcast. They also discuss their preferred method of sharing criticism, a method that St Paul used and which is so powerful, the recipient actually walks away encouraged and build up rather than discouraged or even destroyed by the time you spend together.  Trust me worship leaders, this information is gold to those who want to lead a happy and successful worship team! So join Darin and Erick for a very frank discussion of how to deliver criticism in a godly, constructive and honourable way...

https://praiseandworshipleader.com/worship-leader-podcast/333-how-to-deliver-criticism-and-survive/