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Your Leadership Role Opens Up New Conversations If You Let It

11/5/2025

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A Word to the Wise: Your Leadership Role Opens Up New Conversations If You Let It
 
Your title, authority, and influence make you interesting to anyone who holds a similar position in another enterprise. Yet most leaders never think to expand their learning network to include peers in organizations across the landscape.
They miss the opportunity to build relationships and learn from scores of leaders outside their organization who would welcome the connection and conversation.
These external relationships offer something no one in your internal network can match: a fresh perspective, different approaches, and insights from entirely different contexts.
The best leaders are deliberate about building external networks of experts to learn from.
Your Leadership Role Opens Up New Conversations If You Let It (Admired Leadership Field Notes – Excellent article!)
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Thank you for reading. Please share it with pastors and other AMSs you believe would benefit.
 
To the praise of His glory,       
  
Ray
P. S. I also host the “SBCAL Podcast with Ray Gentry” each Tuesday morning.
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    I’m Ray Gentry, the President/CEO of the Southern Baptist Conference of Associational Leaders (SBCAL). I’ve served Southern Baptist churches & associations in various roles for over 35 years. I have served as an associational leader for five associations, starting in 1993. The most recent one being the Southside Baptist Network, McDonough, GA.

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