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Servant Leadership seems the most appropriate topic for the Charter Session of the Grassroots Leadership Development Forum. We are excited about the participating faculty and content developed for this year's Forum.
Servant Leadership is a paradox to most modern leadership philosophies. This term was first coined in 1970 by retired AT&T Executive Robert Greenleaf, author of the best selling book Servant Leadership.
Greenleaf states, "The servant-leader is servant first...He or she is sharply different from the person who is leader first...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."
In the opening session John Stahl-Wert, best selling author and President of Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation (PLF), will share insights on Servant Leadership gained through his experiences in creating and developing over 50 grassroots social sector and faith-based organizations. These insights are discussed in his internationally best selling book, The Serving Leader, co-authored with Ken Jennings. This session will explore the 5 powerful actions that will transform your team, organization, and community.
- The paradox of the upended pyramid.
- Principles for maximizing achievement with your organization, communities, and clients.
- The responsibility for replication.
- Building great people by focusing on strengths rather than weaknesses.
- Dream the impossible.
- Gain practical insight for enhancing your leadership effectiveness.
- Discover tested leadership models that can be implemented into your arena.
- Identify avenues for increasing achievement for your organization, communities, and clients.
- Increased understanding of Servant Leadership and its benefits.
- Understand the relationship between personal growth and leadership development.
- Understand team development principles for the Servant Leader.
The Serving Leader: 5 Powerful Actions That Will Transform Your Team, Your Business, and Your Community by Ken Jennings and John Stahl-Wert.
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: Servant leadership is a mind-set, rather than a leadership style. In this session Kevin Mannoia, author, Professor of Ministry, and former President of the National Association of Evangelicals, will focus on helping leaders define for themselves exactly "Who they are serving" and how "Who I am" creates and supports the "What I do". Detailed characteristics of a Servant Leader will be presented, and an opportunity for careful and honest self-reflection on how these characteristics are already at work in the grassroots leader, and where opportunities for growth lie.
- Unlock the counter-cultural call to Servant Leadership.
- Explore "Performance based identity vs. Servant based identity".
- Focus on the foundational questions of "Who I am" and "What do I do with who I am?"
- Define what characteristics are common among Servant Leaders.
- Identify and develop personal strengths.
- Identification and application of top 6 personal strengths using the "Strengths Finder Profile."
- Develop a working definition of Servant Leadership.
- Evaluate personal strengths and opportunities for growth in the Servant Leadership characteristics.
Servant First (Article 1: Discovering "Servant" in Servant Leadership) & The Integrity Factor by Kevin Mannoia.
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Robert Greenleaf, in his original definition of Servant Leadership said the true test of whether one is a Servant Leader is "Do those served grow as persons?".
Therein lies the challenge of empowerment for Servant Leaders. A Servant Leader is one who actively seeks to become "abondoned to the strengths of others." In this session Dr. Grace Barnes, author and leadership expert, will join us as we look closely at what empowerment is and is not and learn ways to become a Servant Leader who does, in fact see people grow into the best possible versions of themselves.
- Understand the development principle of apply "challenge & support" to help people reach their full potential.
- Define and reflect on "power."
- Learn to view "empowerment as stewardship."
- Learn the A.R.M.E.D. paradigm for Servant Leaders.
- A.R.M.E.D. as a method of coaching and empowering Servant Leaders.
- 3x3 Coaching.
- The 10-minute problem solver.
- Identification of the unique "Hedge Hog Concept" for the organization.
Servant First (Articles 2: A Servant Leadership Definition Model, 3: Choosing a Leadership Model, 4: Empowering People for Leadership.)
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Servant Leadership, more than being a leadership “style” is a leadership mind-set. In this session we’ll explore 10 personal qualities which are vital for the servant leader to develop, in addition to exploring ways to apply the servant leadership mind-set to other popular leadership “styles.” Leadership Author Christine Wood has said, “A leader is a person who develops a broad range of skills that equip him or her to walk alongside another and move them through the process of becoming, “Healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous and more a servant.”
- Introduction of 10 qualities necessary for Servant Leaders.
- Three key roles of Servant Leaders: contextual leadership, relational leadership, and functional leadership.
- Empowering vs. Controlling.
- Tools for helping Servant Leaders develop healthy, independent & conscience centered teams.
- Application of Servant Leadership mind-set to current leadership theories (including Situational Leadership).
- The four jobs of a leader.
: Servant First (Articles 5: The Triangular Dimension of Servant Leadership) and Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton.
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Details: The Servant Leadership mind-set is among other things an opportunity and call to the leader to become an “Agent of Change” to those they serve. Agents of Change are leaders who are willing to take initiative to challenge the status quo and seek to develop an environment where people are free to become more of themselves and in the servant leader mind-set, servants themselves. In this session we’ll continue to explore the development of a servant leader mind-set through understanding of human development, story-telling and skills for learning to take initiative.
Ray Rood, President and Senior Consultant , Human Technologies International shares his insights helping institute change in a variety of settings.
- Understand the role of learning, serving and story telling for Servant Leaders.
- Overview of Human Development principles and how they apply to Servant Leaders roles of developing those they serve.
- Gender developmental differences, and possible implications for Servant Leaders.
- Tools for integration of reflection as a learning tool for Servant Leaders.
- Story telling tools.
- Empathic listening.
Servant First (Articles 6: The Servant Leader as a Coach, 7: The Dance of Servant Leadership, 8: Standing Upright in the Wind: Servant Leaders Choices, 13: Developmental Issues in Servanthood: Implications for Training and Development).
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William James said, "The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." Many grassroots leaders find themselves trapped between focusing on the work at hand and building for the future. Between 'doing the work' and 'developing others' to continue the work. Therefore, a primary concern for Servant Leaders is multiplying themselves through the lives of other aspiring leaders.
Dr. Joi Spraggins, President and CEO of Legacy, Pathways and Footprints, LLC will discuss the principles of legacy, pathways and footprints as avenues for Servant Leaders to multiply themselves in and through those that will follow us and carry the torch into the future.
- Servant Leadership is a multi-generational approach to lasting community solutions.
- Servant Leaders replicate themselves through mentoring aspiring leaders.
- Developing a legacy is a balance between today's work and tomorrow's promise.
- Commit to leaving a legacy of leadership in your organization and community.
- Learn to identify the emerging leaders in your sphere of influence.
- Develop a plan for mentoring emerging leaders.
Servant First (Articles 9: The Posture of a Servant Leader, 10: A Leadership Theory for the Commons of Alaska, 11: Authoritarian Versus Servant Leader Missionaries, 12: Servant Leadership: A Needed X-axis for Two-Dimensional Leadership Thinking).
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During the final teleconference Amy Hoppock will summarize the six previous sessions and trace the development of key Servant Leadership principles througout the readings and sessions of the Forum. Kevin Monroe will moderate a panel discussion consisting of Forum participants and explore how integrating Servant Leadership principles has affected their clients and communities. Kevin will conclude the Forum with three leadership challenges for the future - encouraging Forum Members to be life-long and life-wide Servant Leaders.
Servant First (Articles 14:The Servant Leadership Marriage: Principles of Servant Leadership for Healthy Relationships and Marriages, 15: The Art of Finishing Well: Paul as Servant Leader)
The Grassroots Leadership Development Forum reserves the right to substitute or change scheduled session topics and faculty participation.
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