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October 2006
Dear friends,
Olga and I took part in a leadership development project last month.
The name of the project was “360 leadership review”. 360 standing for 360
degrees. Prior to the training each of us gave evaluation forms to about a
dozen of people around us. The group included people we report to in our
ministry, our peers as well as the ones reporting to us. They all gave
their input. After that all the comments were combined and included in a
final report. Besides actual comments the report also had a bunch of
graphs, scales, numbers and percentages. (You know, in Campus Crusade we
have a formula for everything:)
Like I wrote before, this exercise was indeed great. We were not simply
given our reviews with a ‘now go change yourself’ kind of message. Both
Olga and I had a Campus Crusade “vet” come alongside and work through the
book with us. Because the report was all encompassing and people making
comments were really trying to speak into our lives, our strengths (and
weaknesses!) were coming to the surface. No, we have not arrived by any
means! After spending many hours with our mentor each of us left the
training with a specific Personal Development Plan - a set of specific
steps which is designed to help us become better leaders in our ministry. I
keep mine in front of me to make sure whatever we decided to do will not
simply be forgotten.
One might ask, ‘Why spend some much time worrying about some nebulous
leadership development? Wouldn’t it be better to simply spend ALL the time
and resources available and just work, work, work “plowing” the mission
field?’ Throughout the conference we kept thinking about one particular
illustration. They say that a young man wanted to become a logger and
applied for a job. The boss wanted to make sure the guy would be a good
worker so he put him on probation before giving him a full-time job. The
guy was indeed a hard worker and chopped a bunch of trees the first day -
more than many others in his group. He was really tackling the task on the
second day as well, but his results were not as impressive. This trend
continued and by the end of the week he was really falling behind. He ended
up not getting the job and when talking to the boss about it he could not
figure out what the deal was. “I tell you the truth, I was as busy as one
could be cutting those trees all day every day! I do not know what
happened” - he exclaimed. “But did you take a time off to sharpen your
axe?” - replied the boss.
Olga and I praise God for allowing us to be a part of the ministry where
they want staff to keep their axes sharp so we could become the best
“loggers” and could stay in this business for years and years!
Thank you again SO VERY MUCH for being right next to us in this great
life-changing ministry. Lives of people around us are being changed with
your help. Our lives are being changed just as well!
From Moldova with love,
Yuri and Olga Boldirev
October 2006
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