In Your

Ofunre Iriobe

Leadership RetreatRCCG, Celebration Arena, Ede

Osun State

DILIGENCE

Assignment

Meet a friendNot Intimidated by the Size of Workload

Value Teamwork

Highly Organized

Master planner

Gets the Job Done

Mr Diligent

Charisma is not Enough

“Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.” ~ Samuel Johnson

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean

men. Probs 22:29 (KJV)Diligence is a constant effort by a leader to

accomplish an assignment through careful

planning, hard work and perseverance

Opposite

Laziness, Negligence and carelessness

Leadership is about Assignment

You are given the objective of the assignment,

but how it is achieved is

completely up to you.

Every Leader isordained

for a particular mission.

The bible on Diligence

Diligent hands will rule, but laziness ends in slave labor. (Prov. 12:24)

They take charge and are in control

All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty. (Prov.

14:23)

They prosper

The sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the desires of the diligent are

fully satisfied. (Prov. 13:4)

Achieve their desires

Diligence is an important virtue for Christian leaders.

Why is Diligence so important?

It is an Investment

It helps you focus on the most important

things

It is an input that determines your output

It says a lot about your readiness for an

assignment

Components of Diligence

• Effort + preparation - Attentiveness = Errors

• Preparation + Attentiveness - Effort = Stagnation

• Effort + Attentiveness - preparation = Reactive

• Effort + preparation + Attentiveness = Diligence

EffortPreparation

Attentiveness

DILIGENCE

Errors

Reactive Stagnation

Components of DiligenceExamples

EffortPreparation

Effort

Attentiveness

The Place of Diligence in your Assignment

Luke 14:28

“For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and

counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?”

Diligence is not what you do with work, it is what and how you think about work.

A diligent man prepares for every task within an assignment even when the task is repeated. E.g. Footballers.

• The engine of every assignment“Diligence is making a series of successful short-term steps that lead to long-term success.” - Buck Jacobs

• The value of every assignmentThe amount of time and effort invested in working out an assignment determines the value you place on that assignment.

Two major roles of diligence in an assignment

Why is Diligence Lacking?

• We don't have any regard for the God we are working for.

• We don't know our place in the assignment. We are yet to personalize the assignment.

• We don't understand the magnitude of our assignment

How to improve your level of diligence

• Always focus on the big picture

• Don’t be intimidated by the Size of the Workload

• Learn to breakdown your work schedule, and delegate some

• Value Teamwork, you can’t do it alone

• Be highly Organized, know where to be and when

• Work on your planning skills. Have everything planned out

Focussing on the above gives you an ‘unbalanced force’ in your assignment

The Power of the ‘Unbalanced Force’ of Leadership

Diligence

Leadership Challenges

“An object at rest will

remain at rest unless acted

on by an unbalanced force.

An object in motion

continues in motion with the

same speed and in the same

direction unless acted upon

by an unbalanced force”

Newton’s Second Law of Motion

YOUR LEADERSHIP ABILITY REMAINS THE SAME UNTIL YOU DILIGENTLY WORK ON YOUR CAPACITY

Newton’s Law and Leadership

• An assignment committed into your hands, remains the same until leadership acts on it.

• Leadership capacity is the reason why two people will handle the same task and get different results.

• Albert Einstein said that, ‘A problem cannot be solved at the same level of thinking at which it was created.’

Courage isn’t always a lion’s roar....

It’s also the silence of an ant

Working Patiently,

persistently and never giving upHindi Shayari

Is to be hardworking and to

Listen to instructions

It also means to do our best in everything.

Giving up is not an option

Even when times are hard, we should

Never give up

Continuing to work....that‘s what we learn in

Endeavour

- Kelly Chew

Thank You