Craig Groeschel

Not similar gifts, but complementing gifts.

And I see this all the time.

I am a pastor who leads

45 different church locations, and we've got really different personality types and gifts mix of our pastors.

For example, if I have a very organized, planning and strategic pastor,

We wanna pair that pastor with someone that's very warm, very relational, and very caring.

Or we might have some visionary, charismatic person who's really good talking from on the weekend in front of people, but they're weak on follow-through.

So we're gonna pair that pastor with someone who knows how to get things done.

It might not just be the wrong seat, but it might be the right person with the wrong pairing.

So if you know that you have a good leader that's struggling,

First, look at the seat.

Secondly, look at the pairing.

Another scenario is this.

You might have the right person and the wrong boss.

Right person, but they're under the wrong type of leader.

Now, this can be tricky and complicated because what do you do with the wrong leader?

It depends.

It could be a lot of different things.

But sometimes you have a good player and that player's personality doesn't operate well under a certain type of leader.

For example, you might have a creative person under a micromanaging boss, and that's probably not going to work well.