"The Power Of Collaboration "
Pastor Rhonda Pettigrew

The most effective leaders at this time are those who understand the power of collaboration. Although you have vision and strategies, you cannot overlook the fact that they are more successfully executed with teams, partnerships, networks, and even mergers. Collaboration creates a communal brain that renders a greater magnitude of success because each person’s contribution turns into collective intelligence, not to mention that it automatically increases your resources, energy, gifts, and talents. 



Plurality in leadership can only be obtained with heightened emotional intelligence, and this is synonymous with Kingdom behavior. God’s work is too massive and complex to be accomplished by one person or entity. To be Kingdom-minded is to commit to growing beyond leading with low self-esteem, jealousy, offense, and territorialism. 

Here is some wisdom:

1. You can have a vision that looks complete in isolation, but it could be a piece of God’s intention. Someone else holds the other components.

2. Be careful of those who continually prophesy Words of disconnection and discord. They could be prophesying with an agenda or from a place of hurt. It is dangerous to make a move prompted by someone else’s pain instead of God’s purpose. 

3. Many people want to see you win more than you realize. Don’t fall for the chatter. The hater gospel has caused paranoia that is stagnating the growth of many leaders. 

4. Make sure you have wise counsel and a pastor who challenges your perspectives, stretches your paradigms, and holds you accountable. Iron sharpens iron.

A Kingdom leader should not be consumed with individual success. Even God said, “Let US make man…” Rhonda Pettigrew