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Karen Gieseke, the Southeastern Minnesota Synod, ELCA's Children, Youth, & Family Ministry Coordinator shared this presentation on Strengths Based Leadership at the 2013 Councils as Leaders in the Church event.
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God’s Unique Design of Each Person…
OBefore I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.”
Jeremiah 1:5
O “For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works that I know very well.”
Psalm 139:13-14
The “Why” of Strengths Based Leadership“I’ve never met an effective leader who wasn’t aware of his talents and working to sharpen them.” Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Wesley Clark
OWinston Churchill OMahatma Gandhi
More Differences than Similarities: “…it is the differences that defined them and led
them to their success.”
Bible stories of Strengths Based
Leadership…• Moses• Jonah• David• Ruth• Deborah • Esther• Peter• Mary Magdelene
“A leader needs to know his strengths as a carpenter knows his tools, or as a physician know the instruments at her disposal. What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths-and can call on the right strength at the right time. This explains why there is no definitive list of characteristics that describes all leaders.”
The Four
Domains of
Leadership Strength
OEXECUTING
O INFLUENCING
ORELATIONSHIP BUILDING
OSTRATEGIC THINKING
“…the most cohesive and
successful teams possessed broader
groupings of talents.”
Although
individuals
need not be
well-rounded,
teams should
be.
“…it serves a team well to have a
representation of strengths in each
of the four domains.”
“When teams are able to use a common language of strengths, it immediately changes the conversation, creates more positive dialogue, and boosts the team’s overall engagement.”
“…the leader must continue to invest in each person’s strengths and in building better relationships among the group members. When leaders can do this, it allows the entire team to spend more time thinking about the needs of the people they serve.”
“ The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts and
though all it’s parts are many, they form one body…But in fact
God has arranged the parts in the body, everyone of them, just
as God wanted them to be…there are many parts , but one body…Now you are the body of Christ,
and each one of you is a part of it.”
I Corinthians 12: 12, 14,18,27
“The most effective leaders get people to follow. Reaching the
level where your life’s work and mission continue into perpetuity requires not only being a leader
yourself, but developing the people who follow you to be
effective leaders as well.”
When they pulled in that catch of fish, awe overwhelmed Simon and everyone with him. It was the same with James and John, Zebedee’s sons, coworkers with Simon.Jesus said to Simon, “There is nothing to fear. From now on you’ll be fishing for men and women.” They pulled their boats up on the beach, left them, nets and all, and followed him. Luke 5:9-11
*Strengths & Health
“…the link between early self-confidence and physical health may be even more surprising…the group with low self-confidence…reported almost three times as many health problems
25 years later. Almost unbelievably, the group with high self-evaluations…
reported having fewer health problems than they did 25 years
before.”
The Four
Domains of
Leadership Strength
OEXECUTING
O INFLUENCING
ORELATIONSHIP BUILDING
OSTRATEGIC THINKING
“The leader of the future isn’t a person. It is a TEAM. It is a group of people gifted and
called by God to lead. It is a community drawn together by a sense of possible with in congregation and committed to making God’s kingdom just a bit more real in their
time and place. This fact alone changes the notions of leadership that pastors and
congregations have operated under for years. It breaks down barriers between professional and lay leades. It refocuses
our attention on gifts and call as being the basis for ministry.”
Jeffrey Jones, Exemplar Youth Ministry
For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully. Romans 12:4-8
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