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LEAD 0510
Leadership Development
Introduction
Course Requirements
• Required readings
– Nouwen
– Rinehart
– Rost
– Myers-Briggs
Assignments and Grades
– Class participation
10%
• Throughout the week
– Action learning project
30%
• January 8th
– Reflective leadership essay
30%
• January 11th
– Fundamentals of Christian leadership
• February 5th
30%
Course Overview
• Theology of leadership
• The person of the leader
• Leader’s capacities and impact in
influencing people
• Systems leadership
• Presentation of Action Learning
Projects
How Do You Define Leadership?
• Draw a picture that represents
“leadership” to you
• Share with your neighbours
• Pull out 5 key words from your shared
pictures
• Create your own definition
Summary of “Industrial” Leadership
Analyzed individually or in toto, these (industrial
age) leadership theories have been:
• structural-functional
• management-oriented
• personalistic in focusing only on the leader,
• goal-achievement-dominated
• male-oriented
• utilitarian and materialistic in ethical perspective
• rationalistic
– Philip Rost, Leadership for the 21st Century
Leadership Jazz
Leadership is not a
position. To my
knowledge, a
promotion never
made anyone a
leader. Leadership is
a fiduciary calling.
Max DePree. Leadership is an Art.
Leadership as Process
Leadership is process
whereby an individual
influences a group of
individuals to achieve
a common goal. It is
the sine qua non of
leadership.
Peter Northouse. Leadership
Focus on Intent
Leadership is an
influence relationship
among leaders and
followers who intend
real changes that
reflect their mutual
purposes.
Philip Rost, Leadership for the
21st Century
Transformative Leadership
Transformative
leadership occurs when
one or more people
engage with others in
such a way that leaders
and followers raise one
another to higher levels of
motivations and morality.
Burns. Transformative Leadership
Leadership as Service
Leadership begins with the natural feeling that one
wants to serve, to serve first. Then, conscious choice
brings one to aspire to lead. The difference manifests
itself in the care taken by the servant – first to make sure
that other people’s highest-priority needs are being
served. The best test is: Do those served grow as
persons; do they, while being served, become healthier,
wiser, freer, more autonomous, or more likely to become
servants themselves?
Bob Greenleaf. Servant Leadership.
Leadership and Action
Leadership
means initiating
action towards
shared values
and purpose .
Dick Couto
Daniel 4: Nebuchadnezzar's Dream
• God chooses the
leaders
• God can and will
choose the humblest
• All leaders are
followers – in service
to God
1 Samuel: Saul as Leader
• Christian leaders are
dependant on God, not their
position
• We must show confidence in
God’s willingness and ability
to provide
• We must confirm to the will
of God
• People are interdependent
Mark 10: Jesus on Leadership
• We are to servants,
even slaves to one
another
• Service means sacrifice
• We are a resource to be
used for the good of
others
• We are to live in
conformity to God’s will
• We are utterly
dependent on God
Ephesians 4: Leadership in Community
• We are to be marked
by gentleness and
humility
• We must be patient,
bearing one another
in love
• Leaders equip others
Trinitarian Perspective
• Leadership is relational,
not hierarchical or
organizational
• The model of shared
leadership flows from the
Trinity
• As sisters and brothers,
each has a unique role
• Love for each other and
dependence on God mark
the Christian leader
Reflection
• What are the
character, attributes,
and calling of a
Christian leader?
• How do we serve as
leaders when we lack
formal authority?
The Character of a Leader
• Humility
• Love
• Conformity to the
will of God
• Interdependence
The Attributes of a Leader
• Deep sense of
instrumentality
• Biblical and
missional
• Authentic
• Vulnerable
The Roles of a Leader
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Equipping
Serving
Speaking out
Maintaining a
kingdom
perspective
Self-Reflection
As Christians, we
are called to be
before we are called
to do and our calling
both to be and do is
fulfilled only in being
called to Him.
Oz Guinness, The Call
• What does it
mean to you to
be “Called to
Christ?
• How will you live
that out as a
leader?
What is Kingdom Business?
“Any work, activity or enterprise that
seeks to recognize, embrace, and
execute the full implications of the
Lordship of Jesus Christ over all
things...including the workplace.”
• Mike Baer, The Jholdas Project
Kingdom Business is…
• Vocational
– it is high an holy calling
• Intentional
– we recognize that there is a specific direction or
manner in which your role in the workplace impacts
the Kingdom
• Relational
– We are responsible for stewarding the web of
relationships that the workplace brings
• Operational
– We must operate according to the principles of
excellence
Form Learning Teams for ALPs
• Develop a ‘wanted’ poster
• Self-organize into teams
• Simple Rules
– Equal number on each team
– Leverage interdependence
– Complimentary skills and
learning needs
Project Approach
• 90 minute lunches for team process
• A lens through which you can apply ‘lessons
learned’ from this course
• Team of leaders with no formal leader
• Need to be practical applications to a specific
setting or context
• Must be biblically grounded
• Goal is implementation AND learning
• Projects presented at week’s end
Overnight
• Reflections on today
• Myers-Briggs Assessment
• Read Wergin
– www.tyndale.ca/seminary
– Resources/Leadership Centre
– Resources