10 Signs You’re An Insecure Leader
Everyone struggles with insecurity as a leader at some point in their ministry. Here are some great diagnosing questions, courtesy of Perry Noble (paraphrased):
- You see people as working for you and not with you.
- People who push back on your ideas are automatically branded as disloyal.
- When someone says something good about someone else you always have to be the person who says, “yes, but what you don’t know about them is…”
- You get jealous when someone on your team receives any sort of public affirmation but you are not mentioned at all.
- You cannot celebrate what God is doing in other churches.
- You always believe someone on your staff is going to attempt a coup to take over your role as a leader.
- You dismiss what God is doing in another church/ministry because it doesn’t line up exactly with where you are theologically.
- You lead through intimidation.
- You secretly like the fact that people on your staff are afraid of you.
- You feel the need to prove yourself in every meeting you are in by seizing every opportunity you have to speak.
