{"id":64,"date":"2018-09-29T16:45:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T23:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/?p=64"},"modified":"2018-09-30T08:52:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T15:52:27","slug":"assignment-5-servant-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/2018\/09\/29\/assignment-5-servant-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment 5-Servant Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three principles of Servant Leadership I want to highlight are:\u00a0Healing, Persuasion <\/em>and\u00a0Building Community\u00a0(Spears, 2002, pp.1-16).<\/em><\/p>\n

Healing<\/p>\n

The characteristic of Healing<\/em> means to “care about the personal well-being of the followers” (Spears, 2002, pp.1-16). An example of this, from my experience, comes out of recognizing where the person is coming from and their past experiences. There have been cases where I have taken people onto my team, who have either come from toxic ministry situations recently or in the past. In one of these situations, I found the experience that this person had come from, to be similar to one I had been through and was still healing from. Listening to this individual’s experience and being able to offer advice and support, was a healing experience for me as I worked through the situation I had dealt with.<\/p>\n

Persuasion<\/p>\n

“Persuasion is clear and persistent communication that convinces others to change”\u00a0(Spears, 2002, pp.1-16). Recently, the ministry organization I am with, have rolled out a lot of changes. We are entering a season of adaptive change and part of my role as a team leader was to communicate those changes to our staff team this summer. This communication required persuasion and that meant I had to be clear on what the changes actually were and also highlight the need for them to happen. In regards to the implications of the changes I wanted to invite our staff team into that process to explore and to join us in discovering what to do next, not to look to myself and the other ministry leader to have all the answers.<\/p>\n

Building Community<\/p>\n

I enjoy building community and this comes naturally to me. An example of this is in our ministry team we take time to do something fun together, at least once a month as a team, during work hours. This allows us to build a sense of community through shared experiences. We also take time at the end of every ministry year to go away and do a staff retreat together in one big house for a week. This is a great time of bonding, where we share openly and grow in a sense of unity as a team. I have also found praying for each others needs in our team check-in time is a way for team members to feel connected and support each other (Spears, 2002, pp.1-16).<\/p>\n

I think currently the principle that will be most challenging for me to consistently realize in my context is Persuasion, <\/em>because as the characteristic is described it requires “clear and persistent communication\u00a0that convinces others to change” (Spears, 2002, pp.1-16). The persistent part is what will be most challenging because of all the other priorities I have in my ministry role. The only way things are going to change, is to persistently communicating the need for change and give my team space to explore and try new ideas. The couple meetings we had as a team, are not going to facilitate adaptive change happening, we need to come back to our need for adaptive change over and over for something to really change.<\/p>\n

Question: In your experience, what were some barriers that hindered your team or organization from changing?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monica<\/p>\n

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Northouse, P. G. (2018). Leadership: theory and practice (8th ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.<\/p>\n

Spears, L.C. (2002). Tracing the past, present, and future of servant-leadership. In L.C. Spears & M. Lawrence (Eds.),\u00a0Focus on leadership: Servant-leadership for the 21st century <\/em>(pp. 1-16). <\/em>New York, NY: Wiley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three principles of Servant Leadership I want to highlight are:\u00a0Healing, Persuasion and\u00a0Building Community\u00a0(Spears, 2002, pp.1-16). Healing The characteristic of Healing means to “care about the personal well-being of the followers” (Spears, 2002, pp.1-16). An example of this, from my experience, comes out of recognizing where the person is coming from and their past experiences. There […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":445,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-unit-1","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/445"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}