Your Team Can't Hit a Target They Can't See

Every church says they have a vision. Very few have one their team can actually act on. And when vision is vague, people don't just drift... they fill in the gaps with their own.In this episode, Jonathan Malm and Jason Young dig into Chapter 4 of Likable Leader, unpacking what makes a vision compelling enough that people actually want to give their lives to it, not just show up and do their jobs. From ego-driven vision that quietly uses people to build a platform, to fake work that simulates progress without actually moving anything forward, this episode gets honest about why so many church leaders struggle to cast vision that sticks.In this episode, you'll learn:Why vague mission statements like "love God, love people" leave your team filling in the gaps with their own vision and why that's a leadership problem, not a people problemThe subtle but destructive difference between a vision for the church and a vision about the leaderWhy staff don't resent a leader's success... they resent feeling used to create itHow uncertainty around vision is one of the most overlooked accelerators of church staff burnoutWhat "fake work" is, why it's everywhere in church world, and how to stop creating itWhy you don't have to pioneer the church's overall vision but you do have to be a participant in itThe case for margin: why giving your team white space isn't laziness, it's one of the greatest gifts a leader can givePlus Jonathan reflects on what it looks like when a church's support staff and senior pastor are clearly operating from two completely different visions, and Jason makes the case that vision leaks... and so does meaning.