IMPORTANCE OF SELF-LEADERSHIP
Leaders must care for, nurture, and manage their personal lives. In leadership circles, this is known as self-leadership. Effective leaders must invest more energy into developing their own leadership skills than in developing any other area.
Leadership expert Dee Hock suggests that self-leadership needs to occupy 50 percent of a leader’s time.5 What would happen if church leaders took Hock’s recommendation seriously and invested half of their week into self-leadership? To become the healthy leaders God desires us to be, we must develop personal mastery of our own lives.