Your Team Can't Hit a Target They Can't See

<p>Every church says they have a vision. Very few have one their team can actually act on. And when vision is vague, people don't just drift... they fill in the gaps with their own.</p><p>In this episode, Jonathan Malm and Jason Young dig into Chapter 4 of <i>Likable Leader</i>, unpacking what makes a vision compelling enough that people actually want to give their lives to it, not just show up and do their jobs. From ego-driven vision that quietly uses people to build a platform, to fake work that simulates progress without actually moving anything forward, this episode gets honest about why so many church leaders struggle to cast vision that sticks.</p><p>In this episode, you'll learn:</p><ul><li>Why vague mission statements like "love God, love people" leave your team filling in the gaps with their own vision and why that's a leadership problem, not a people problem</li><li>The subtle but destructive difference between a vision for the church and a vision <i>about</i> the leader</li><li>Why staff don't resent a leader's success... they resent feeling used to create it</li><li>How uncertainty around vision is one of the most overlooked accelerators of church staff burnout</li><li>What "fake work" is, why it's everywhere in church world, and how to stop creating it</li><li>Why you don't have to pioneer the church's overall vision but you do have to be a participant in it</li><li>The case for margin: why giving your team white space isn't laziness, it's one of the greatest gifts a leader can give</li></ul><p>Plus Jonathan reflects on what it looks like when a church's support staff and senior pastor are clearly operating from two completely different visions, and Jason makes the case that vision leaks... and so does meaning.</p>