Effective leaders are like gold-miners, always looking for the next “rising star” on the 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 People will tend to \u201cflock\u201d towards a rising leader. Whether they be members of your team, or volunteers in your church or organization, 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 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 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 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":" As a leader,\u00a0nothing you do will ensure long-term success like finding and developing emerging leadership talent. Effective leaders are like gold-miners, always looking for the next “rising star” on the team. Rising stars are those members of your team who are exhibiting ever-increasing passion, desire and, most importantly, results. So, how do you actually spot…<\/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":[3,22,769,738,478,7,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-action","category-church","category-culture-2","category-effectiveness-2","category-featured","category-leadership","category-team-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480","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=6480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6481,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480\/revisions\/6481"}],"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=6480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}1.\u00a0\u00a0 Watch for\u00a0migration<\/strong><\/h2>\n
2.\u00a0\u00a0 Listen for \u201cbuzz\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n
3.\u00a0\u00a0 Sense the\u00a0tension<\/strong><\/h2>\n
4.\u00a0\u00a0 Trace the\u00a0pathway<\/strong><\/h2>\n