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/

332- Worship Team Foldback

Worship team Foldback matters because hearing yourself on stage matters.

"Can You Turn Your Worship Team Foldback Down Please!"

This is true for every worship team, especially if you have a smaller auditorium and a worship band that is prone to be a bit loud. So trust me, if you find yourself telling your band members to turn down time and time again, or if you constantly have singers asking your sound guys to turn them up ("Dude, can you turn me up I can't hear anything up here!"), then this is a podcast you really need to hear! Your worship team foldback is a critical part of the way you perform as a worship team.  If the on-stage sound is too loud, the sound guy has nothing to work with at the front of the house.  In fact, some of the sound people I talk to have just turned off the front speakers and walked away!  When the stage sound is so loud that the sound person turns off the front speakers, and people still complain it is all too loud, then things are really needing to change. One of the things we discuss in this podcast is in-ear speakers, which can minimise your onstage noise dramatically.  These are still quite expensive, but they can work well, so Erick and Darin discuss this as one of the more modern options for dealing with worship team foldback issues. So whether you are leading worship in a big church, small church, traditional or modern church, if you are ministering on stage, the level of your on-stage sound really does matter!  There are new and innovative ways of dealing with hearing yourself on stage, and we even allude to new and innovative ways to deal with those who have their own sound too loud and refuse to turn down! Learn all the tricks that could improve your sound week by week in this special podcast...

https://praiseandworshipleader.com/worship-leader-news/332-worship-team-foldback/

330- Managing Talented Team Members

Every worship leader wants talented team members, but often times when we get them we do not know how to manage them.

What's the Secret to Managing Talented Team Members?

Do we change things for them, or do we treat them like every other worship team member?  Do we push them to the front, or make them "do their time" in the background?  Are you catering to the pride of Talented Team Members, or are you supposed to keep them humble? This revealing podcast will help you manage talented team members, and all the other team members as well.  How do you deal with jealousy in the team, because trust me, if you have Talented Team Members someone is going to get a little intimidated and threatened at some time. We also talk about how you will feel if someone more talented than you comes along.  Can you celebrate the talent, or are you threatened by having someone better than you in your team? OK, sure, some of the really talented people who come along are prideful as well, but I have found that many of them are quite humble, and some even feel used and abused by pastors and worship leaders. Most in my experience are coming into the team, not to big note themselves, but to serve, and to do their best to shine for the Lord. So settle back and listen to the guys discuss the very real and pertinent issue of how to best manage team members who are talented.  We will inspire you to honour and elevate those with real talent, how to keep their hearts humble, how to keep your heart humble and how to manage them so that they and the whole team benefit. We will show you how to love them, how to inspire them and how you can allow those Talented Team Members to positively influence the other members of your worship team...       ..

https://praiseandworshipleader.com/worship-leader-podcast/330-managing-talented-team-members/

329- Supercharge Your Worship Practice

Worship practice is often dull, boring and charged with high emotion and frustration. But Worship Practice Can be Fun! I’ve been in some practices where the tension in the room is so extreme you can cut it with a knife, and I’ve also seen the opposite, where you worship practice is fun, enjoyable and productive. So why are...

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https://praiseandworshipleader.com/worship-leader-podcast/329-supercharge-your-worship-practice/