Leadership Duties - Managing Finances

The business matters involving figures and finances - can you make them sing or can you make them dance?

Well, maybe not so much fun, but if they do not work you can get yourself into some pretty hot water.

What do you really need to know?

Are we in the black or in the red?  Are we growing or declining is size - and that could be segmented into as many categories as you like - and you had better segment if you really want to know the strengths and weakness of your areas of interest.

Two things - have an amazing staff person excellent skills sets in recording and analyzing data or obtain an excellent database that you can manipulate data through excel to obtain whatever data segmentation you want and I believe you are in business.

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Code of Leadership Ethics

MY PERSON

• I will endeavour to pray daily; to read, study, and meditate upon God's Word; and to maintain extended times of contemplation
• I will plan time to be with my family, realizing my special relationship to them and their position as important members of my team
• I will seek to keep my body physically fit through  proper eating habits and planned exercise, renewing myself through a weekly holiday and an annual vacation
• I will try to keep myself emotionally fit, keeping in touch with my feelings and growing in healthy control of them
• I will strive to grow through comprehensive reading and through participation in professional educational opportunities

MY PROFESSION

• I will seek to conduct myself consistently with my calling and my commitment as a person of God
• I will give full service to my team and will accept added responsibilities only if they do not interfere with the overall effectiveness of my work with my team
• I will consider a confidential statement made to me as a sacred trust not to be divulged with out consent of the person making it
• I will responsibly exercise the freedom of my leadership pulpit, speaking the truth of God's Word with conviction in love, and will acknowledge any extensive use of material prepared by someone else

MY FINANCES

• I will advocate adequate compensation for my profession 
• I will be honest in my stewardship of money, paying bills promptly, asking no personal favours or discounts on the basis of my professional status
• I will give tithes and offerings as a good steward 

MY TEAM

• I will seek to regard all persons on the team with equal love and concern and undertake to serve impartially to their needs
• I will seek to be friends with all team members, yet retain the right to seek close friendship with some
• I will exercise confidence in the upcoming leadership, assisting them in their training and mobilizing their creativity
• I will seek to lead the team in a positive direction to achieve the goals we have mutually agreed upon.  I will remain open to constructive criticism and to suggestions intended to strengthen our common initiatives