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EP. 08: THE "K" IN TEAMWORK IS FOR KEEP ON LEARNING All leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning, you stop being a leader. As I consult with churches, I’ve seen that growing churches require growing leaders. Another proverb says “The intelligent man is always open to new ideas. In fact, he looks for them.” (Proverbs 18:15, LB) Do you do that? Do you encourage your team members to keep on growing, developing, and learning? At Saddleback, our staff is constantly reading books and listening to tapes to sharpen their skills and develop their character. If you practice these eight T.E.A.M.W.O.R.K. values with your team, you’ll experience a new level of teamwork in your church that will take your ministry to new heights. QUOTABLE QUOTES No one knows everything, but everyone knows something. – Tyler HoferClick To Tweet Sometimes we fall short because we think we need to become masters of the thing. And you forget that God calls us to be great stewards of the people who come into our camp. And so don't stop learning. – Mingo PalaciosClick To Tweet DOWNLOAD TRANSCRIPT Grab your reading glasses and download the PDF here. READ THE TRANSCRIPT Tyler Hofer: All right, we are at the final value letter for this talk. So you've made it all the way. I feel like we need a drum roll for this last one. Mingo Palacios: We did it! It's the last value. Tyler Hofer: So, we are on letter "K" and the value for that is knowledge. And really what we're talking about with this value is that as a leader, as someone who's in a position of leading teams or is on a team, you need to continually be learning in that position. And so I think we should've put leaders are learners or being a learner, but it doesn't fit with our acronym. Mingo Palacios: Right. Right. Yeah don't mess it up dude. Carolina Corrales: Don't mess it up. Tyler Hofer: But in Proverbs 18:15, it says that intelligent people are always ready to learn. You can underline always there. Not sometimes, but all the time they're continually learning and it says their ears are open for knowledge. And so some of the points that I want to talk about here is that no one knows everything, but everyone knows something. So in any team that we have, any environment, we need to understand that, that no one knows everything. No one is the all powerful source of knowledge on that topic. Mingo Palacios: Although some people might think they are. Tyler Hofer: Yeah. Mingo Palacios: But this is actually a great way to dispel that spirit of like, "Oh I am actually the carrier of all this information." Tyler Hofer: Then on the flip side of that is that everybody knows something that other people don't know and they can contribute. This all ties in so closely with the other values we're talking about, about encouraging people to give their ideas, to ask questions and to know that everybody can contribute their knowledge to the mission that's at hand. Mingo Palacios: I do agree with you that a great way to cap it is the idea that leaders are learners. Right? And I think that there are some people who will like self declare that there's nothing more to be learned concerning that position. Think of like somebody who runs like maybe coffee or maybe like as a greeter and they go like, "I know everything about this" and the minute that confession comes out of their mouth, they've actually revealed that they are done learning, which means, you know, you have to really ask the question like are you really leading? Like, is that the best foot forward here that you can actually arrive at the sum ...