Leadership Skill: Listening

Communication, an essential part of church leadership, makes such a difference in a leader's effectiveness in other skills. By communication we are referring to not merely transmitting information but exchanging information which requires that leaders also become good listeners.
 
To be a good leader, you need to learn to listen both to God and to people.
 

Listening to God is a means of:

• acquiring wisdom and understanding
   
  
• discerning His heart
   
  
• lining up with Him and His will
   
  
• letting God know you care
   
  

Listening to people is a means of:

• discerning needs
   
  
• learning if something isn't working
   
  
• acquiring new ideas
   
  
• letting people know you care