Four Levels of Competency

I’m not sure where this came from or I’d give credit. Someone taught that when you are developing others, there are four levels of competency:

1. Unknown incompetence: a team member doesn’t know what she doesn’t know.
2. Known incompetence: a team member is starting to learn what he doesn’t know.
3. Unknown competence: the person is starting to understand how to do her ministry role but isn’t really aware how good she is.
4. Known competence: the person is becoming aware that God has gifted them for this specific role.

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Developing People

Once you start attracting good ministers, God will want to use you to help make them great ministers.

Here are ten lessons I’ve learned about developing people:

1. Honest, immediate, and consistent feedback on performance is invaluable.
2. Developing strengths nets a bigger return than developing weaknesses.
3. Developing others takes a ton of time in the early seasons and produces huge results with smaller investments in future seasons.
4. You will see a better ministry return by investing in your star team members than you will by investing in weaker players.
5. You will have to allow people to fail if you want them to improve.
6. Great coaches are great encouragers.
7. If you don’t schedule intentional time for developing others, you aren’t likely to do it.
8. God can use you to pull more out of a person than the person may believe exists.
9. The person you are developing can also help develop you—if you will ask questions and listen.
10. The best people builders develop others to develop others.

What speaks to you? What would you add?

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