Christianity and Management Part 1

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Sure, but most of all, thank you for listening and choosing The Truth Podcast Network. This is the Truth Network welcome to mannitol brought you by T8 W CM is talking and walking Christian men's ministry where they are devoted to breaking down the walls of race, age, challenging, and to take their God assigned as our host will Hardy and Roy Jones Junior a black eye and a white man pray for our brother Roy. He is not feeling well today, but with thinking about him, as would going to broadcast today, and today we want to talk about a topic that I think all of us can associate with. Because at some point in time. If you haven't ever been a leader or lead people in whatever way that you delete them or maybe you work for a company and you work for a manager who's a Christian, or you yourself is a manager who was a Christian, how do you reconcile the things of God versus the things of the company that you work for said that's a difficult question really to ask ourselves because what happens is we have to come to limit an understanding when you're leading people are you putting into a supervisory role that there are certain things as a believer that you simply cannot compromise and of course you have to balance that against the company rules and regulations and see that's that's sometimes that's a very fine line and and in there is no company, don't get me wrong. Now there is no company that exist out there. When they make their processes and procedures. Of course, there are certain legal processes that they have to meet and and procedures in reference to employee safety in an regulatory and things like that so those things are given. But what it boils down to is the people that you place in the supervisory the management roles or the lead roles. Someone who was in authority and what happens most of the time is we find ourselves caught in a quandary of how do I best.

Let my light shine among those who are my subordinates who report to me and yet fulfill the requirements that the company with will have for me in the position of a manager and/or supervisor so we want we want to talk about that today because a lot of times when we encounter people who are placed into supervisory roles and and I'll use myself as an example and and some of these cases that were talking about today because I was both a manager at one time and I was also a supervisor at one time and what I saw in my years of managing and supervising people is one is that when you come in from outside into a company. People begin to look at you differently because you know they say well he or she really doesn't understand the processes and procedures that we do here at the company and this is something that they have to learn so this is going to be a learning curve for them then you have those people who were inside the company who, as a result of their years of experience or doing a good job upper management saw that they could be placed in the position to manage people, or supervise people and so they put them into the role now what I saw in a lot of cases that folks who were placed into these roles weren't fully trained in how to deal with people they may have known the processes they may have known the procedures, but they just did not communicate well with people and it's that communication piece because the company can have all kinds of rules and regulations, but if you don't have the right people in place to enforce those rules then I think that is where the large gap occurs when it comes to how successful a company will be so with myself. For example, one of my first supervisory roles.

I was a shift supervisor at a chemical plant and I was promoted through the ranks/started off as an operator moved up to two you know operator within certain equipment because in order to supervise. You have to with this particular company. You have to put your fingers on. Basically all of the equipment that you would be managing people over so I had to learn of the processes and procedures and what to do in an emergency and all these things I went through all that and undeniably happens is when you come through the ranks is there's always someone who's there who feel that you should not be in that position.

You should leader that they should be there rather than you.

So that's the first hurdle that I had to overcome. I have to I had to really look and see what what's the individual's motive in the course at that time I was born again and I didn't see myself as a taskmaster because the guys who were working around the plant. They knew me, because I came up with the ranks, but then I had a situation where there was always one or two people who attempt to try, try you to see how you would react under certain situations that they would you bring up. Oh I have I have such a such an emergency. What he will be to do what you want me.

Do you need to give me some direction on this that or the other thing so you know they would try and test you to see if you're able to succeed or pass then you would have those people who said I'm so happy for you. I'm glad you know you you are deserving to be in this position and we want to work with you to help you be a better person than you were when you work with us on the operator level and so I welcome that. Of course, with open arms. But again, it was those folks who said you just you shouldn't be there, and so as a person who I thought that I could do well with people. I asked the upper management. So will you know send me to some courses, you know, let me let me get into some courses on how to communicate with people how to supervise people effectively.

So I went to a bunch of these courses and I learned many things. As a result from them, which I coupled with my Christianity. But there was also certain things that I saw that the company was enforcing that that went against the principles of God and so I'll give you an example of one of these things, you had an individual who he he was over our laboratory in the plant and so as a supervisor I had to sign off on a lot of the materials that was either coming in or leaving the plant.

In this case it was some drums of waste product and the course the waste had to be tested, and regardless of the, the, the batch each drum have to be tested because that was the process and procedure of the company and so he ran he came over and he said hey you need to sign this when you get this truck on the on the road and so I looked through the paperwork and I said so where's the analysis I don't see any analyses away. It is analysis right there for the whole batch essay wait wait wait. Each drum of this product has to be tested. We will have time for that we don't have time for that. So he went on and on and on and on and on and here I am now in between a rock and hard place. Do I just sign off or do I stick to the process of the company which says each drum of the product had to be tested and so I stuck to that because that was the right thing. It was with the process, for I didn't see that it was a violation of anything that God had said, if anything, it was the contrary of that that if I would have signed without these drums being tested.

Then I would be in violation of God's principles. Even though I would have made man happy and signing off and letting these drums go in the sight of God. It was not the right thing to do and that weighed heavy on me as I told him, as it was truck truck can't leave and you need my signature truck can't leave. So we have to tests the remaining drums and so we he pull samples from each of the drums and lo and behold to of the 10 drums with the way that he had classified that particular material which again was not in accordance with DOT standards.

The way he had classified that material it was.

Not right because two of the 10 drums were had some other contaminants in it that had to be listed on the paperwork.

So if I would've signed that not only I would've been in violation but the company in which I represented would have been in violation so see this, there's always this rock and hard place situation that any time you you are managing people. There is this fine line and you think that you might be getting away with just simply signing off and I could've done that truck could've been on the way and in fact, nothing could happen. He would've arrived there at the facility and the people would've unloaded the drums.

In truth, the ways according to what the paperwork said but the paperwork was not reflective of what was in the drums were coming up on the brakes but we want to come back from the break. I want to continue talking about the situation because you are going to be placed in times within your management and supervisory roles.

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We have a lot of scenarios here that one born-again, one is not born again, and we know that the person who is a born-again. We are probably going to struggle with them until we understand what their management style is and people have to understand what my management style is to buy the way going into you know, being a young manager and supervisor coming along some the things I had to be faced with.

But I came to an end or an understanding that I had to ask myself who is really in my manager who is my boss and and when I came to the understanding to say it's not the person who I'm looking at who I'm working with.

It is the Lord who I'm working for, and born-again believers, we ought to be the absolute best employees that a company can have no that you are faced with trials your face with tribulations you you faced every day because the end of enemy is bombarding us with this.

You're not good enough or to think of something negative. This person who they put in this position. They don't know more than I do. They got them off the street.

I've been in this company for such and such an amount of time and they should've put me in this role instead of them. How dare they, and so all of these things can start to bombard you and pull you away from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Because remember what first John 114 15 says every man sin when he is drawn away by his own lust so you can be drawn away through this hate and so you might say within your spirit will want to participate or try to help this person in any way possible, because I'm the one should've been that should've been in that supervisory role so I came to an understanding to know that I'm working for the Lord.

Number one now number two is I came to an understanding. To say if this person who I'm working for even knows the Lord, or don't know the Lord how hard is it for me to love them when I know that they hate me or they have some ought against me.

How can you love a person like that in NC again. You know human emotions and human feelings. They do get in the way they should not dominate us, but they do get in the way and this is when renewing of your mind.

Romans 12 one and two has to be a priority. When we get up every day and there's times when I got up as a supervisor and I said, Lord, you have blessed me to rise up from my bed. How is it that I can glorify you can glorify your name today.

How can I show your love through me so that that's the other thing I had to I had to realize that the person who may have ought against me. It's really not them because see if they don't know the Lord.

It's the enemy using them to trying get to you, but even more than that. If it is a born-again believer and they feel like that.

Well, this person here is really not knowing what I would like for them to do so we we going to find ways to either move them out the way or move them out.

That's not them. They have allowed their hedge to be compromise and so it's the enemy that's dealing with you through them and if their mind is not renewed.

Now I'm not saying a born-again believer can be possessed but their mind.

This is why God tells us to renew our mind daily.

Because this is where the battle is, the battle is in the mind.

The enemy what he wants to do is he wants to appeal to your soul you're the seat of your emotions, your feelings, this is what he's after.

Because he knows if if we we went we heard people say this before I send it to my kids when they were young you are getting on my last nerve weep with. We've said it all. We've known of people who said it or we've known our parents to set this. That statement is actually true. From the standpoint of this is what the enemy is appealing to he's a appealing to your feelings, your emotions, and he wants you to get riled up so what we want to do is to come to a point now to say. Can we allow ourselves to come under the Holy Spirit guidance and direction when it comes to when it comes to being a manager or supervisor because how you let your light shine will be.

It will depend on how far a person really respects you and so you have people who respect the position but not the person, and you might have people who respect the person but not the position. So you want to come to the point to be able to to have people respect you, but also respect the position which you are placed in.

But if you fall short of of of any type of training don't be afraid to ask. Go to your management, go to your your supervisor and say hey you know can cannot, I'll go to a course on how to deal with problem people or or how to why write up a report or something like this. It is no shame in saying that there is areas where you we can and you need some guidance because if we fail to understand that it is God which works in us to do both his will and to do of his good pleasure. And if I know according to Philippians 25 that I want to put on the mind of Christ. I want to think the way God think I want those things to come out of me that our true representative of the Lord.

I want to fall short, and neither should you. Because there's times when all of us will be at the position of managing people and we have to come to that understanding that we want to continue with this. This is a subject on next week and we want to be talking about all use the example of Daniel tenure was the model when it came to management when it came to supervision and when it when it came to not compromising himself with the world.

He is the absolute model is when it when it comes to to management and supervisory roles and were going to dig into the word I want to this week to simply just set you up for next week so that because were going to talk about some acronyms on what you can do as a manager or as a supervisor to aid and help your people. However, they need assistance because they may not ask for, but as a manager or supervisor you have to have that godly discernment to be able to see that this person needs help or that person needs help and how can I put forth that effort to lead them out of the point. The that therein and succeed because remember what we talked about earlier how that that particular individual wanted me to sign some paperwork of of drums that were not tested. See when you when you put your friendship above your faith then that's when you start to compromise yourself now from from that point forward because I didn't sign and he you know he was upset at me. The person who was over the lab, but I think in the in he understood he didn't tell me this, but he understood if if an incident like this happen going forward I'm gonna check every single drum. I'm going to make an effort to do those things that are according to the legal aspects of the company and the company's processes in the company's procedures because all of us.

We there is accountability and everything we do and if we as God's people don't help our managers, even though that they are not born again we need to still assist them in however way we can and helping them move forward because ultimately it is the people who make the company and not the company who makes the people we are the ones who bring forth an and enforce the processes and procedures of the company. We are the ones who bring forth the guidelines of the commandments of God and we bring those forward through our actions and there are people who are constantly watching us every single day there watching to see what is it that you failed to do if you say that you born-again believer. And so if you stay the course to do what the Lord said to be faithful and to him you will always know that you can never go wrong because the eyes of the Lord are in every place he holding just holding the unjust is God's people. We want to make sure that we are doing the right things in the sight of God. Because we will be storing up treasures in heaven, so I want to thank you for listening to this podcast in reference to Christianity and managed as we wrap up today show.

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