In Blessings for Leaders, Dan Ebener skillfully weaves an understanding of one of the most powerful and familiar Bible passages with insights drawn from his experience developing faith-filled leaders in churches and ministry organizations. Ebener reflects on how the paradoxes of leadership can be understood from a careful reflection on the Beatitudes: It takes wisdom, empathy, humility, justice, mercy, service, peace and courage to lead as a Christian. Each chapter begins with Scripture, reflects on the inward journey of leadership through the virtues associated with each Beatitude, and suggests how that might be extended outward in the challenges of leadership, such as mission, vision, core values, followership, conflict resolution, emotional intelligence, communication and listening, team-building, meeting facilitation, innovation and dealing with change. Straight-forward, easy-to-read, and filled with illuminating stories, this book is ideal for individuals in search of greater insight or groups journeying to a deeper understanding of Jesus vision for leadership.
Servant Leadership Models for Your Parish explores the practice of servant leadership in a church context. It presents seven behaviors practiced by leaders and members in high-performing parishes and provides real-life examples of these practices. The unique contribution of this work to the national discussion about parish life and leadership is its description of servant leadership and its explanation of how it works in a parish. This work suggests that parish life can be viewed in light of business principles such as the organizational behaviors of leaders and members in a Christian parish, and religious teaching, particularly the message of Jesus, who taught leaders to be servants and members to be disciples. Intended for pastors and parish leaders, pastoral associates and deacons, parish staff and lay members of parishes who are interested in leadership, it is sure to be indispensable reading for anyone who is interested in changing or improving the leadership, the activities, and the culture of their parish. +
In this book Dan Ebener leads the reader on a systematic journey to the heart of parish ministry, examining along the way the challenges parish leaders face in exercising their ministry. Throughout the book, he intersperses useful real-life examples of common leadership situations.
Argues that leadership can emerge from anywhere, in any context or any organization. The use of coercive, command and control methods fails to engage others in a leadership process. But those in authority can choose to lead, and can choose to create the structures and build a culture that encourages leadership.
A clear, concise textbook on strategic planning using an interactive process from a leadership perspective that covers business, not-for-profits, and public entities.
This study measured evidence of organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) and servant leader behaviors (SLBs) in three high-performing Catholic parishes. In social science, servant leadership and organizational citizenship have been shown to play a critical role in organizations. They are also viewed here as servant behaviors that are consistent with the teachings of Jesus, who stated that "anyone among you who aspires to greatness must serve the rest" (Mark 10:43-44) and "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" (Luke 6:31). Utilizing focus groups, one-on-one interviews, observational techniques and archival research methods, the study found evidence of three SLBs and four OCBs. The three SLBs studied here are recognizing, serving and empowering, while the four OCBs are helping, initiating, participating and self-developing. This study also found interaction effects between specific leader and member behaviors and discovered six other characteristics that were associated with these three high-performing parishes.
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