{"id":6200,"date":"2018-08-20T20:40:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T01:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottcochrane.com\/?p=6200"},"modified":"2018-08-20T20:40:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T01:40:07","slug":"4-sure-fire-ways-leaders-mine-for-great-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/20\/4-sure-fire-ways-leaders-mine-for-great-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Sure-Fire Ways Leaders Mine for Great Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leaders are like gold-miners.<\/strong><\/p>\n

They\u2019re constantly prospecting for the next lead or the next opportunity. But nothing they search for is more valuable, or more important, than the next \u201crising star\u201d on their team.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rising stars are those members of your team who are exhibiting ever-increasing passion, desire and, most importantly, results.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, how do you actually spot them? What are the tell-tale signs effective leaders look for when they are prospecting\u00a0for the emerging leaders on the team?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here are four proven ways to spot the rising stars who are emerging all around you:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0 Watch for\u00a0migration<\/strong><\/h2>\n

People will tend to \u201cflock\u201d towards a rising leader. Whether they be members of your team, or volunteers in your church, there is always a movement of people towards centers of energy created by an emerging leader.<\/p>\n

Watch for it. Because where you have an effective leader in place, over time you will see more and more people drift into that leader\u2019s orbit.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0 Listen for \u201cbuzz\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n

A team\u00a0led by a rising star will generate more water-cooler talk. People connected with that team\u00a0will become raving fans and will increasingly pepper their conversations with news about that team.<\/p>\n

Listen for it. Where you hear increasing \u201cbuzz\u201d you may well have a rising star on the horizon.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0 Sense the\u00a0tension<\/strong><\/h2>\n

When you have a growing leader in place, they will start to consume more resources in order to generate and manage growth. They will need more facility space, more budget, and more organization-wide\u00a0communication.<\/p>\n

This resource consumption can cause mild annoyance among teammates. You need to manage these tensions, while recognizing they could be pointing toward a rising-star leader.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0\u00a0 Trace the\u00a0pathway<\/strong><\/h2>\n

At the church where I served as executive pastor, I once compiled a list of our church\u2019s most effective leaders (elders, deacons, small group leaders, etc) and traced their stories back. I found that across the board, many of these top leaders had been developed through one particular department\u00a0in the church.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, the leader of that ministry was identified as one of our true rising stars.<\/p>\n

So keep prospecting for the next opportunity and the next breakthrough. But above all, keep prospecting for your next rising star.<\/p>\n

Because when you find them, that\u2019s as good as gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leaders are like gold-miners. They\u2019re constantly prospecting for the next lead or the next opportunity. But nothing they search for is more valuable, or more important, than the next \u201crising star\u201d on their team. Rising stars are those members of your team who are exhibiting ever-increasing passion, desire and, most importantly, results. So, how do…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[478,7,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-leadership","category-team-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6202,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200\/revisions\/6202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}