Giving Young Leaders Opportunities

Published April 25, 2018

Every organization needs to find ways to give young leaders more opportunities. At North Point, we’ve established a pattern we call “orchestrate and evaluate.” We are constantly in that rhythm…orchestrate and evaluate, orchestrate and evaluate.

Orchestrate: This is how we do it here.
Evaluate: How can we do it better?


In the orchestrate and evaluate rhythm, giving young leaders more responsibility is a little less risky. 
They are working in an organization where there are systems. They don’t have to make things up from scratch. And they know there are built-in evaluations.

When you give a young leader an opportunity or responsibility without built-in evaluation, they get in trouble because they do what they think is right. And if it goes bad, the consequences can hurt, both for them and the organization.

If you have a healthy culture to begin with, then you can never give young leaders too much responsibility.

As a leader, someone gave you an opportunity. You weren’t quite prepared. You had to “fake it til you make it.” If you give young leaders opportunities in an orchestrate and evaluate culture, in the end they will grow, build trust and will be given more opportunities.

About the Author(s)
Andy Stanley

Andy Stanley

Founder & Pastor

North Point Ministries

Communicator, author, and pastor Andy Stanley founded Atlanta-based North Point Ministries (NPM) in 1995. Today, NPM consists of eight churches in the Atlanta area and a network of nearly 130 churches around the globe that collectively serve nearly 185,000 people weekly. As host of Your Move with Andy Stanley, which delivers over 10.5 million messages each month through television and podcasts and author of more than 20 books, including his brand-new book releasing in 2022, Not In It to Win It, as well as Irresistible; Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets; The New Rules for Love, Sex & Dating; How to Be Rich; Deep & Wide; Enemies of the Heart; When Work & Family Collide; Visioneering; and Next Generation Leader, he is considered one of the most influential pastors in America.

Years at GLS 2003, 2006, 2010, 2013, 2017, 2022