Jesus As A Servant Leader

Leaders in managerial positions often use different tactics to influence those who follow them. Christians leaders can use Jesus as a leadership model who used different tactics to influence others. Christian Reflections on the Leadership Challenge gives many examples of these leadership tactics. Jesus led His followers as a Servant Leader, he was a leader who served others. This tactic shows followers that their leader is not only out to make good for themselves, but for all of those involved (Ortberg, 2004). Servant Leaders are humble and understand that humans make mistakes and they do not fault them for their it (Ortberg, 2004). Servant Leaders ask and welcome feedback from others. When a leader is self-serving they only serve themselves.

After taking a couple of different leadership quizzes to identify my leadership style and reading about different styles I have found out that I am a democratic leader. I allow people who I lead to contribute their own ideas. I am also identified as the Country Club manager. I like to make sure everyone I lead is happy and enjoys coming to work I strive to become more of a Team manager and I have used the Blake Mouton Grid to better understand what that means and what I need to do to be a more effective leader. As a leader I like to lead by example. I believe I have a high standard of integrity and I show my team this by following the rules and policies set by the corporate office. I have recently shown the group of teachers that I lead to take risk and ask for what you want. As their leader I try to make it a point daily to point out the things they are doing well. I tend to be the leader who likes to be liked. I realize I am not always going to be in a position where a decision I make for the good of the school is going to be liked by all, however I am working on being okay with