Oct 6, 2026 · 33 min · 9 segments
Getting promoted over your friends is one of the hardest transitions on church staff. On Friday they were your peers. On Monday they report to you. In the final episode of our Likable Leader series…
So whenever things are going well, it's actually pretty easy to be likable, right? Like when-
... everything's going great, like there's no, there's no friction, there's no, uh, there's no transition, that's easy.
But really, it's whenever things are going badly, both for you, for the team, that I see a lot of people lose their likability.
Hopefully it's because we let people closest to us in the church, so they have-
... well, we kinda expect bad stuff from outside the church, and we don't even necessarily open that part of our hearts to people, right?
I mean, I-- transitions, you know, a new leader comes in, it changes the dynamic.
So whenever things are going well, it's actually pretty easy to be likable, right? Like when-
... everything's going great, like there's no, there's no friction, there's no, uh, there's no transition, that's easy.
But really, it's whenever things are going badly, both for you, for the team, that I see a lot of people lose their likability.
Hopefully it's because we let people closest to us in the church, so they have-
... well, we kinda expect bad stuff from outside the church, and we don't even necessarily open that part of our hearts to people, right?
I mean, I-- transitions, you know, a new leader comes in, it changes the dynamic.
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