“All hard work bring a profit, but mere talk leads only to
poverty.” Proverbs 14:23
Last fall the opportunity presented itself to hang out with
some of the wise folks at the home office of Chik fil A. Our entire leadership
team was able to hang out for the day and glean a ton of great information. One
of the pieces that isn’t necessarily original to them that has stuck with me
was this basic process:
Simple formula or model of development process:
Read – 10% Gather new
concepts, new content, new thoughts.
Audio, seminars, reading. This is
necessary precursor to set up the discussion and actions for growth.
Talk – 20% Engage in conversations
with others about it. TWICE as
powerful! Mentors, peer partners,
friends you process life with. Managing
time, dealing with conflict, etc. Who
can we connect them with?
Do – 70% Practical
areas to try this out, projects to put this to use. APPLYING is growth through practice. Set it up, debrief it – spine of it is
practicing it. Faith without works is
dead! Help team to live it out. Let students go on trips and EXPERIENCE it!
The application is pretty simple. We all love to talk. We
meet to meet. We have meetings to discuss previous meetings. But sometimes we
have to get stuff done. Proverbs even guarantees that hard work always brings
results. Even if they aren’t the results you were shooting for you are better
off than just talking. Talking has it’s place, we need to be wise and seek the
counsel of others. But we also have to try it. Our parents taught us that. We
teach that to our kids. So what have you been talking and talking and talking
about that you need to shut up and acoomplish?
