{"id":725053,"date":"2020-11-06T02:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/churchanswers.com\/?p=725053"},"modified":"2020-11-02T21:06:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T02:06:54","slug":"what-is-fueling-your-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/churchanswers.com\/blog\/what-is-fueling-your-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Fueling Your Strategy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, my family went on vacation. We have three growing kids and needed a little bit of extra room for the long drive to Florida, so we rented a van. The entire drive my wife talked about how spacious the van was and that we needed one. I couldn\u2019t help but think about the fuel economy and that our current car gets way better gas mileage. This got me thinking about fuel economy in strategic leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether you are leading a church, an organization, a team, an initiative, or a project they all need fuel.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Like any good pastor I came up with an acronym to help me explain the <\/span><b>F.U.E.L.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> you need to lead strategically.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>F<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">uture &#8211; Some pastors call this vision and others call this mission. The point is to make sure to communicate a clear and compelling preferred future. Ideally the preferred future inspires or solves a felt need. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Without a compelling future then you are just wasting fuel.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Your team will often burn out. This can happen when you change the end goal or direction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>U<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tilities &#8211; In this analogy think of your utilities as all the tools and resources you need. Some of the utilities you will need include communication channels, budget, curriculum, sermon material, time, or facilities. When a car doesn\u2019t have enough fuel it won\u2019t make it to its final destination. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leaders must provide the needed resources to make the future happen.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sometimes it means changing priorities or even reallocating resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>E<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">xecution &#8211; Effective execution must be broken down into next steps. Sometimes next steps are listed as goals with assigned deadlines. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a difference between wasting fuel and being efficient with the fuel you have.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> When leaders don\u2019t have a road map you could drive an hour in the wrong direction. Repeatedly getting lost or making wrong turns enough will force you to run out of fuel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>L<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eaders &#8211; Every great plan needs to have the right leaders. The team executing the plan should be made of the right staff and volunteers. You would never put diesel fuel into a gasoline engine. It is important to make sure you have assembled the right team for the task at hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>F.U.E.L<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is what will sustain your team through the long haul of any project or initiative. Think of each element like the dials on your car dashboard. 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