#380 The Price of Serving Leadership: Release Power
Issue #380, August 21, 2024 Serving leadership produces thriving in people, organizations, communities and nations. But serving leadership is costly! Leaders who seek to serve consciously and consistently need to release things that are difficult to give up. Jesus talked about the “kings of the Gentiles” as typical leaders but called His disciples to a […]
#379 The Price of Serving Leadership: Release Position
In our exploration of serving leadership, we typically focus on the benefits and rewards of serving others and indeed there are many. But there is also a high price to serving leadership—a price that many are not willing to pay. Serving leadership requires releasing things that many leaders value greatly. In this series we’ll look […]
#376 It’s None of Your Business: Surrender it
June 19, 2024 Leaders influence and impact the realm where they have authority. This may be at home, in their office or department, in the church they lead or in the business they operate. They naturally feel a sense of ownership of that entity, especially if they founded the organization or business*. But serving leaders […]
#375 Nehemiah: Upend the Pyramid™
June 5, 2024 The final action of the Serving Leader Model® is Upend the Pyramid. At the heart of serving leadership is a radically different approach that does not focus on self and personal gain. Serving leaders instead focus on serving the mission of the organization, the people who are a part of the organization, […]
#370 Secure Leaders Develop Others
March 27, 2024 We have examined several significant actions of secure leaders and recognized that secure leaders are serving leaders. They demonstrate their leadership security as they serve by encouraging, delegating, embracing differences, and accepting mistakes. These actions all lead to the final one, developing others. Developing others is both the outcome of these actions […]
#367 Secure Leaders Delegate
February 14, 2024 Delegation is hard! It’s not easy to release power and allow others to do what you do well. Yet delegation is an essential part of effective leadership. Elijah illustrates how secure leaders are able to release power to their followers. 9 When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can […]
#366 Secure Leaders Encourage
January 31, 2024 In the previous issue we looked at how Jesus was a secure leader because He knew His authority, identity and destiny. His security allowed him to serve His disciples. Now, we’ll look at several ways that secure leaders serve those they lead—first by encouraging. The story of Barnabas gives us a beautiful […]
#365 Secure Leaders are Serving Leaders
January 17, 2024 How secure are you in your leadership role? And how does your personal security as a leader impact your ability to serve others? In this series we’ll examine the differences between secure and insecure leaders and discover why secure leaders are serving leaders. Many persons in positions of leadership are insecure but […]
#351 Timothy: Paying the Price of Leadership
June 14, 2023 Timothy was hungry to learn but he also recognized that growth in leadership comes at a cost. He was willing to pay the price that was required to shape him into the strong leader that he would become. Consider these scriptures about his life: Paul wanted to take him along on the […]
Paul’s Leadership Pipeline: Love Them
#349, May 17, 2023 We have observed how Paul developed Timothy, one of the emerging leaders on his team. There were many deliberate acts of serving leadership that Paul took with Timothy and each is instructive. But in this final issue we’ll step back from some of the specific actions to the heart that shaped […]