Leadership transparency can build or break trust. Without trust, leadership suffers. However, when a staff, customers, or congregation trust their leaders, good things happen.
Several years ago our church made some significant changes to our governance and our church constitution.
After a two-year study process, our board of elders presented the changes to our church resulting in overwhelming approval, a unanimous vote.
A key reason the process went so well was because they ruthlessly practiced leadership transparency. Here are four ways to practice leadership transparency and move your church or ministry forward.
1. Communicate, communicate, communicate.
Our board went out of its way to communicate the proposed changes. They included some key influencers in the re-write.
They provided copies of the change several weeks in advance. They convened a focus group of key influencers to get their take before it came to the church.
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