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September 2006
Dear friends,
I promised to send you more information about the leadership development training Olga and I were a part of 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
September 2006
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