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WhyLeadlikeJesus.pptxBUSI 502 Servant Leadership
Why lead like Jesus?
Welcome to BUSI 502 Servant Leadership
Presentation: Why lead like Jesus?
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Why lead like Jesus?
Why lead Like Jesus?
Professor’s Note: You have been offered a clear contrast between Greenleaf’s Servant Leadership, which is humanistic, relative, and without foundation vs. Biblically based Servant Leadership rooted in the life of Christ.
One question remains: Why lead like Jesus? Are there good, practical reasons for leading like Jesus?
Why lead Like Jesus?
Professor’s Note: You have been offered a clear contrast between Greenleaf’s Servant Leadership, which is humanistic, relative, and without foundation vs. Biblically based Servant Leadership rooted in the life of Christ. One question remains: Why lead like Jesus? Are there good, practical reasons for leading like Jesus?
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Why lead like Jesus?
Spiritual Reasons for Leading Like Jesus
Seek First the Kingdom
Honor God and His Commandments
Put the Love of Jesus into Action
Model Jesus to Others
Spiritual Reasons for Leading Like Jesus
As a philosophy of leadership, servant leadership may be considered one option among many others; but as a theology of leadership, it is a mandate for all who call Jesus Lord. Foundational to tapping into the essence of leading like Jesus is embracing a life purpose of loving God and loving and serving people.
There are several spiritual reasons for leading like Jesus.
First, servant leaders seek the Kingdom to for finding results and building relationships. Leading like Jesus requires leaders to follow God. “Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33)
Second, servant leadership honors God and His commandments. Servant leadership is a concrete expression of a daily commitment to live out the Word of God and the will of God, thereby advance the kingdom of God. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” (Matthew 22:37)
Third, servant leadership puts the love of Jesus into action. Leading like Jesus requires leaders to continue to walk closer and closer to Him in a surrendered relationship of trust and love. It is important to believing in Jesus’ enduring love and accepting the call to follow Him.
Fourth, servant leadership models Jesus to others. To lead like Jesus, leaders make choices to serve or be served, which takes on added importance if leaders remain insensitive and aware of who may be watching and who leaders claim to represent.
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Practical Reasons for Leading like Jesus:
Provides Better Service
Provides Better Leadership
Closes the Gap Between Success and Significance
Practical Reasons for Leading like Jesus
From a practical point of view, servant leadership best serves the dual objective of effective leadership – results and relationships.
One practical reason for leading like Jesus is that servant leadership provides better service. Organizations led by servant leaders are more likely to take better care of their relationships with customers and colleagues.
Another practical reason for leading like Jesus is that servant leadership provides better leadership. Organizations led by servant leaders are less likely to experience poor leadership. Servant leadership enables humility to overcome incompetence.
A third practical reason for leading like Jesus is that servant leadership closes the gap between success and significance. People and organizations led by servant leaders are more likely to function well in values-based environments where success and significance are available at all levels. When leaders focus on significance first, their emphasis is on their people. Through that emphasis, success and results will follow.
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Leadership Legacy Challenges When Leading Like Jesus:
It’s not about you!
Life with God-grounded confidence
Life full of integrity
Will of God for life
Leadership Legacy Reasons for Leading Like Jesus
Believe it or not, every leader leaves a leadership legacy because we all influence the thinking and behavior of other people in our organizational leadership.
There are several challenges that exist when leading like Jesus leaders leave leadership legacies.
The first challenge for a lead like Jesus leader is to remember, it’s not about you!
Leadership is an act of service. It is important for Lead like Jesus leaders to recognize that it is not about you. Leadership is about following the servant leadership example of Jesus. What God wants is what matters.
The second challenge lead like Jesus leaders face is living life with God-grounded confidence. Many leaders are apprehensive and out of that insecurity and fear, these key issues have not been addressed in their lives even though they attempt to lead in every facet of life. Disaster will be the result.
Another challenge lead like Jesus leaders face is living a life full of integrity. Not only do leaders have to talk about being leaders, but they have to live it. Remember, leadership is about service not about being served. Jesus talked about serving and served. The best example of His service is when He washed and dried His disciples’ dirty feet. Hence, leaders must practice what they preach!
A fourth challenge lead like Jesus leaders face is submitting to the will of God for life. When leaders have leadership questions, they can go to Jesus for the answer; thereby, first submitting to His will for their lives as leaders. Jesus’ service of washing His disciples’ feet was done to show them that “no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.” (John 13:16-17)
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Leading like Jesus Begins with You
Do not make the mistake of first trying to change other leaders with whom you work. Focus on yourself. Be the change you want to see in others.
Leading like Jesus begins with you
Do not make the mistake of first trying to change other leaders with whom you work. Focus on yourself. Be the change you want to see in others. If your organizational culture does not easily let you talk about Jesus, don’t worry. Just behave as He did and become a great servant leader. Then when people are attracted to the way you lead and they ask you about it, you are free to share with them whom you follow. When people look at you, let them see Jesus. If they like what they see, then they will want to know where that came from; They are ready to learn and are good candidates for your speech.
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Why lead like Jesus?
Professor’s Note: Hopefully, at this point, you are convinced that Servant Leadership is a superior approach to leadership.
I also hope that you have embraced biblically based Servant Leadership, based on emulating the life of Jesus Christ.
This final chapter reviews tools that can help you as you try to lead like Jesus.
Professor’s Note: Hopefully, at this point, you are convinced that Servant Leadership is a superior approach to leadership.
I also hope that you have embraced biblically based Servant Leadership, based on emulating the life of Jesus Christ.
This final chapter reviews tools that can help you as you try to lead like Jesus.
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Why lead like Jesus?
Tool #1 – Lead Like Jesus Readiness Exam
Questions of the heart
Questions of the head
Questions of the hands
Questions of the habits
Tool #1 – Lead Like Jesus Readiness Exam
Leading like Jesus is a daily journey and challenge rather than a final destination. It can be done only in and through the power of the Holy Spirit in your life and committed relationships; first with God and then with others. The journey of leading like Jesus will always be filled with failures, roughly right behaviors, and out and out victories. Staying the course means frequently checking where you are and where you are headed and making the necessary course corrections.
As you continue to develop as a lead like Jesus leader, consider asking yourself the questions Jesus would ask in regards to questions of the heart, head, hands and habits. Tool #1 serves as a lead like Jesus readiness exam designed to remind you of the issues that matter most about your leadership activities.
Questions of the heart
Do you love Me?
Do you trust Me?
Will you serve Me by serving others?
Questions of the head
Do you see your leadership as a season of service and stewardship?
Do you have a compelling vision to lead your organization and a strategy to serve and help your people live according to that vision?
Questions of the hands
Are you willing to seek to understand by listening and sorting what you hear with service in mind rather than self?
Are you ready to admit when you make a mistake in the way you treat the people you lead, and apologize?
Questions of the habits
Solitude – Are you ready to be with God alone on a regular basis to keep things straight between you?
Prayer – How can your prayer life be different so you can communicate with God on a regular basis?
Bible study – Are you actively seeking God’s guidance through spending time in His Holy Word?
Experiencing God’s unconditional love – Do you sense God’s unconditional love for you today?
Supportive relationships – Do you have a small group of like-minded friends with whom you can be open and vulnerable?
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Tool #2 – Emergency Numbers for the Soul
Fear
Temptation
Attack of pride
Check your values
Take accountability for a mistake and repent
Guidance
Tool #2 – Emergency Numbers for the Soul
Tool #2 is the lead like Jesus emergency numbers for the soul. This tool is useful and an effective antidote to fear and pride in times of trail and temptation. Consider memorizing the antidotes below for effectiveness.
In case of fear, ”Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:6-7)
In case of temptation, “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.” (1 Corinthians 10:13)
In case of an attack of pride, “For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.” (Romans 12:3)
When you need to check your values, Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Let not the mighty man glory in his might, Nor let the rich man glory in his riches; But let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the Lord, exercising loving, kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,” says the Lord.” (Jeremiah 9:23)
When you need to take accountability for a mistake and repent, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:9)
When you need guidance, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.” (Proverbs 3:5-6)
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Tool #3 – Power Drill for Uncovering Your True Leadership Motivation
Why do I Lead?
Examples:
I coach little league so that __________________
So that __________________________________
So that __________________________________
I Serve as an elder in my church so that ________
So that __________________________________
So that __________________________________
Tool #3 – Power Drill for Uncovering Your True Leadership Motivation
Tool #3 is the lead like Jesus power drill for uncovering true leadership motivation. This improves awareness of what drives your willingness to serve as a leader by applying a measure of brutal honesty. Because honesty is essential under this tool, leaders may need to realign their EGO. Leaders may uncover the truth about leadership motivations by testing responses to the question, why do I lead?
The examples below will help to uncover the root cause of why you lead based on the situation. You fill in the blank.
I coach little league so that __________________
I Serve as an elder in my church so that ________
As you drill down to discovering and uncovering your leadership motivations, then it may be beneficial to consider how to combat those temptations that can pull you away from following through on your good intentions. Your answers will stem from discerning the health of your habits in staying close to the transforming power of your relationship with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit through the disciples of solitude, prayer, study and application of Scripture, and having truth-tellers in your life.
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Tool #4 – Lead Like Jesus Personal Assessment and Action Planning Guide
Heart– Motivation
Head– Leadership point of View
Hands– Leadership Behavior
Habits– Daily Recalibration
Tool #4 – Lead Like Jesus Personal Assessment and Action Planning Guide
As a lead like Jesus leader, it is important to conduct a personal assessment and devise an action plan from the four domains of leadership to determine why you lead like Jesus. Share your action plan with your accountability and prayer partner. Document your lead like Jesus goals on an index card so you can review them regularly and as a reminder for specific prayer.
For review, the four domains of leadership are:
The Heart of the Servant Leader is Motivation.
The Head of the Servant Leader is Leadership point of View
The Hands of the Servant Leader is Leadership Behavior
The Habits of the Servant Leader is Daily Recalibration
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Tool # 5 – Prayers for the Journey from Call to Commission
Novice
Apprentice
Journeyman
Master/Teacher
Tool # 5 – Prayers for the Journey from Call to Commission
As a lead like Jesus leader, prayer is critical throughout the learning stages process.
The Prayer of a Novice thanks the Father for the opportunity to learn something new even though apprehension is evident.
The Prayer of an Apprentice thanks the Father for patience and understanding because the learning process may not come easily.
The Prayer of a Journeyman thanks the Father for placing teachers/leaders and experiences in your life and the wherewithal to improve skills to produce high-quality results.
The Prayer of a Master/Teacher thanks the Father for the opportunity to develop into a master of tasks or roles.
The Prayer of an Instructor of Novices asks the Father for grace to love each novice and to help him remember what it was like when he began a similar journey.
The prayer of a Mentor of apprentices asks the Father for patience and wisdom to greet apprentices and the patience to remain sensitive to their needs.
The prayer of an Inspirer of Journeymen asks the Father to help him be slow to speak and slow to offer advice or prescribe ready-made solutions.
The prayer of a Commissioner of Master/Teacher asks the Father to help him send them from this learning experience with a sense of confidence in them and appreciation for their teachable spirits.
Jesus has shown us the way to lead like Him by providing the tools. Now, it is time to put the tools to practice with God by your side. Go forth lead like Jesus leader!
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