Getting dirty.
For email coaching and possibly one Americans way
One of the things that I've noticed about different leaders is that some are willing to get dirty and get down in the middle of whatever's going on and some are above it all.
I had one of my coworkers was working and an incident happened between two people at work. While my coworker was in charge. When the incident was brought to me I told the two supervisors that were working that they needed to go ahead and type of statements on what had happened for the investigation. And then I went to my peer and asked him to type up a statement on what happened. He got very defensive and asked why me and said he didn't think he needed to do it because he wasn't even there. And I said but the individuals that were involved came by and talk to you about it and I need you to write a statement for the investigation. If you're not going to do that we may need to take this higher.
This individual is the the type of manager that is politically connected and wants to move up faster than he is moving up. He doesn't want to get anything on him that's the negative or may slow them down. And so whenever things like this, P tends to sweep them under the rug or stay uninvolved and handed off as quick as he can so that he's not associated with the investigation at all.
I tend to be one of those that gets right in the middle of everything. I worked my way up from the lowest rung to this mid-level wrong that I'm at now. I enjoyed most of it and still enjoy getting in the middle of whatever is happening at work. And so I relish the thought of getting involved in an investigation and actually getting to tell my side of the story, however small my side might be.
Sometimes that's the way it is with the other things like our work in the church. Some people don't want to get dirty at all and don't get down in the middle of what's going on and stay at the higher level of planning and organizing. Some people only want to do the work and don't want to get involved in the the politics of organizing things and crossing organizational lines even in a church like ours. But we need to be open to whatever God is leading us to do and be ready to do it when the call comes.
I like getting dirty that! It's like being a kid with God overseeing everything. Stopped open in the puddles David! Don't get that money on anybody else or splashing people as I left hysterically. That would be pretty funny to see an. But I just think getting dirty is part of the deal.
Jesus got dirty. He slipped out under the stars and with his disciples. He walked the trails and the roads in went to the well. He went to the graveside and called Lazarus out. Even carried his own cross so that he could die for us on. Jesus got very dirty by coming down and living with us.
I think that's part of the deal!
