Leading Like Jesus

The servant leader is either Christ-Centered o man-centered. This module will briefly discuss the two.

Christ-centered Servant Leadership From a biblical perspective, servant leaders embrace the act of service and welcome critical feedback on how to improve continuously. Servant leaders seek to transform not only themselves but the next generation of leaders. Jesus modeled the true servant leader by spending most of his time training and preparing His disciples for leadership. Servant leaders are not afraid to serve with their hearts and essentially elevate others to be effective servant leaders by being a role model and spiritual partner.

A true servant leader serves God first. By serving God first, servant leaders can lead and transform with the heart head hands and habits. Servant leadership are empowered and strengthened by God. Man-centered servant leadership in the 1970’s Robert Greenleaf coined the term “servant Leader” but the servant leadership concept originated in the Bible. Greenleaf believed that leaders are servants first, and their ultimate goal is to ensure that other people’s highet priorty needs are met first. Greenleaf posited that the servant leader shares power put other first and help them become high performers particularly within organizations. Hence, Greenleaf focused on the needs of man rather than God. Greenleaf’s beliefs about servant leadership have been interpreted to include 10 ncharateristis including

1. Listenin

2. Empathy

3. Healing

4. Awareness

5. Persuasion

6. Conceptualization

7. Foresight

8. Commitment to the growth of people and the community

Greenleaf believed that if leaders are seervants first, then these leaders’ greatness will be impacted poltively. He sought that true leaders emerge because of their desire to hep others Greenleaf’s perspective of servant leadership invluded other elements such as:

1. The searh for corporate powere and strength by practing...