Shawn Lovejoy

You don't just need a team; you need a killer team. A staff doesn't make a team, but it can become one. In this work, Shawn Lovejoy will teach you how to build, in the words of Merriam-Webster, a "strikingly impressive and effective" team without killing yourself or your team in the process. In this practical application guide, you'll discover how to: Foster Togetherness. Identify, Recruit, and Retain Top Talent. Have Meetings That Matter. Bolster Accountability. Build a Deeper Bench. Inspire Your Team. Deal with Underperformers. Release team members the right way. And so much more You will not get very far without a killer team. The book you hold in your hand will help you build that team while maintaining your sanity and credibility in the process.

What is success? Will you know it when you see it? Shawn Lovejoy has seen false measures of success do damage in his own life and has lived to tell about it. He has since radically recovered and rediscovered healthy leadership and leading healthy organizations. He has spent nearly two decades now helping thousands of leaders do the same. Are you satisfied with your life? Are you fulfilled? How can you lead yourself to the next level? Will you know when you get there? Shawn Lovejoy is Founder & CEO of CourageToLead.com. CourageToLead.com facilitates Leadership growth and organizational health for Leaders. Shawn has been a successful real estate developer, a megachurch pastor, and now leads a fast growing coaching & consulting organization. He leads and represents a team of coaches across America whose passion is coaching leaders and organizations through what keeps them up at night. He loves helping leaders and organizations accomplish all of their potential. Shawn has been married for over 25 years to his best friend Tricia and they have three half grown kids: Hannah, Madison, & Paul. They live in Birmingham, AL.

Why would a leader ever want to be mean? It's all about the vision. Almost every organization has a vision, but few stick to it over time. Even after short-term success, visions tend to blur, drift, and fade. Why does this happen? Accomplishing the vision requires intentionality. It requires consistency. It requires commitment. It requires courage. In Be Mean About the Vision, author Shawn Lovejoy challenges leaders to stay true to the vision—regaining and sustaining its trajectory over time. Lovejoy offers a proven strategy for relentlessly protecting our organization’s guiding vision:Develop a vision people are willing to die forKeep the vision alive in usAlign everyone around the visionKeep the vision from being compromised or even hijackedOne thing is certain—if our church or organization is going to accomplish its mission, we’re going to need to be: Determined. Resolute. Intentional. We’re going to need to be willing to do whatever it takes to keep the vision from being detoured or derailed. Where there is no vision, people perish. They wander off in random directions. On the flip side, when everyone understands and embraces the vision, there is life, passion, growth, and success! And God will be glorified. As a leader the kindest, godliest, thing we can do is Be Mean About the Vision.