Craig Groeschel

Now, two more thoughts.

If you move a person multiple times and they still don't succeed,

You need to be honest and recognize the pattern.

You may have a very quality person, but they're not a fit for your organization.

If you try someone in one seat, then another seat, and another seat, and they continue to struggle, there is something common there.

And it's most likely you don't have the right person.

And so it's up to you to fix that.

And if you have someone that continues to underperform and you continue to tolerate it, eventually, I just need to say it directly, that person is not the problem.

If they continue to underperform and the whole team suffers and you don't address it, they're not the problem, you are the problem.

What you have to do is you have to remember, people don't flourish whenever we all try harder, they flourish when we place them better.

You have to be honest about it.

Now, final thought, and this is where it kind of gets personal, is you might say, well, what if it's me?

What if I'm the right person, but I'm in the wrong place?

And I promise you over three or four decades of leadership, that's going to happen to you.

You might be the founder and you're still trying to do everything.

Maybe you are great at sales and you're promoted to be a sales manager and you don't know how to manage people.

Maybe you're a youth pastor and you were great for 10 years, but now you're 42 and you're losing your passion for student ministry.

And so if you start to wonder, am I in the right seat?

Let me just tell you very forthrightly is that does not mean you're failing.

It means you're self-aware and it's wise to ask that because if you're in the wrong spot, you're gonna eventually become frustrated.