If you Google the expression "what is leadership" you get one hundred and sixteen million hits. Can there truly be this lots of responses to what would appear to be a simple question? As always when faced with too much info I leave from my office and head out to my herd to see if I can get a clearer photo.
Business management is great.for corporations and for the military. But what about the church? Does the Bible offer a design template of management for those serving in management capacities within the Body of Christ? At this point, my desire is to observe what is said about the heart of the leader, not dig into a church polity discussion.yet.
Your story is the basis of your mentorship. Others need to know how you came to do what you did. The knowledge of your management rests in the center of your story. The plots and twists and turns of your story provide special glances of how you made choices about problems you confronted. They reveal your pattern of ideas and the growth management troubles those patterns. These can only be shared by mentoring others. Your story is a kind of sharing that mentoring.
There's an entire category of people who don't constantly see themselves as leaders, however they have that charm and energy that makes things occur and helps others to do the same. No matter where they are, by virtue of their ability to do something about it and have effort, they lead others on. The slogan of this type of leader is, "Come on, people!" We'll call this classification: an action leader.
Understanding the product you check out is not the most important aspect here. What actually matters is how you apply it in your own leadership career. So typically we read fantastic leadership books, get encouraged by the lessons we learn then fail to turn those lessons into lead to our own professions. When this takes place, much of us go back to the drawing board and search for another management book instead of taking a leadership good, hard take a look at ourselves.
Finally, a Leader needs to walk his/her talk. As we can now see, often ignored, leaders should initially get their talk right so as they can get their walk right.
Lots of people believe that effective leaders are extroverted. They think that effective communicators talk more which in order to affect others, you need to be able to talk well. In other words, if someone is peaceful, she or he can not be an effective leader. This is a myth.
The only way a leader can make his title as "Servant Leader" is through humility and total surrender to Jesus Christ. And humbleness and total surrender come as an outcome of having more of Jesus and less of ourselves. As John the Baptist said in John 3:30: He needs to increase, but I must reduce.