LEADERSHIP COLLABORATIVE

DEFINING THE LEADERSHIP COLLABORATIVE

The Leadership Collaborative focuses on three areas:

  1. Personal leadership: leading yourself first
  2. Organizational/productive leadership: leadership competency
  3. Reproductive leadership: lasting leadership

The process looks like this:

  1. Gatherings
  2. Conference calls or Google Hangouts
  3. Monthly peer coaching call with questions provided

CONNECTING WITH EACH OTHER

In small groups, discuss the following questions:

  • Where were you born?
  • How many siblings did you have?
  • What impact did these two things have on your life?
  • What is the most interesting or difficult challenge you had before you turned 18?

UNDERSTANDING PERSONAL LEADERSHIP

Personal leadership: leading yourself before you lead others

1 Corinthians 9:25-27

“Athletes exercise self-control in all things; they do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable one. So I do not run aimlessly, nor do I box as though beating the air; but I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified.”

Thomas Watson, CEO of IBM from 1914 to 1956:

“Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.”[1]

Robert E. Lee, Confederate Army general during theAmerican Civil War:

“I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.”[2]

Omar Bradley, commander in the U.S. Army:

“The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led.”[3]

YEARLONG FOCUS

  • Introduction
  • Spirituality: How are you deepening your relationship with God?
  • Physicality: How are you caring for your health, intellect, emotion?
  • Life focus: Where has God called you?
  • Values: How will you journey?
  • Priorities: Where will you focus your energy?
  • Relationship: Who will journey with you?
  • Accountability: Are you connected with a coach or network?
  • Growth: Where and how do you need to grow?
  • Obedience: How will you follow Jesus?

SHARING CALL STORIES

Os Guinness:

“Calling is the truth that God calls us to himself so decisively that everything we are, everything we do, and everything we have is invested with a special devotion and dynamism lived out as a responseto his summons and service.”[4]

Call: a sense of purpose in life to which you can’t help but respond.

  • How did God call you?
  • What did God call you to?

There are two kinds of calls:

  • Inward call
  • The moving of the Holy Spirit in the heart and life of a leader
  • Example: Isaiah
  • Outward call
  • Confirmation of other leaders, affirming the inward call
  • Example: Eli in the life of young Samuel

Consider your call:

  • Know: How well do you know Jesus?
  • Be: How does your life (and your job) show you as a radical revolutionary for Jesus?
  • Do: How does what you do flow out of your sense of call, out of your relationship with Jesus, out of your gifting and passions?

Study John 13:1-17:

  • Identify as many leadership principles as possible in this passage.
  • Reflect on v. 15: “For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.”
  • Identity: Jesus knew where he came from. Jesus knew where he was going.
  • How has God shaped us?
  • What is God calling us to do?

CLARIFYING LEADERSHIP FOCUS

Ask yourself:

  • What kind of leader do I want to be three years from now?
  • What kind of leader do I want to be 15 to 20 years from now?
  • What do I hope is my leadership legacy?
  • What phrases describe me and my leadership?

Leadership development plan

  1. Purpose and vision statement
  2. Learning options
  3. Strategic alignment
  4. Blind spots
  5. Coaching

Consider Luke 7:36-50:

  • What is your alabaster jar of perfume?
  • What would cause you to weep in the presence of Jesus?
  • How is your view towards sinners more often like the Pharisees than like Jesus?
  • What can you do in your area of influence to welcome all?
  • Greeting
  • Acceptance
  • Forgiveness
  • How can you deepen your love for Jesus? How might you love much rather than little?
  • How will your loving Jesus help you live and love like him?

LOGISTICS

1.Conference Calls

2.Coaching pairs

3.Future in-person dates

[1] Thomas Watson. Quoted inLeadership Gold: Lessons I’ve Learned from a Lifetime of Leading, by John C. Maxwell (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2008), 17.

[2] Attributed to Robert E. Lee. Quoted in Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations, by Robert Debs Heinl (Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute, 1966), 59.

[3] Omar Bradley. “Leadership,” Parameters, Vol. 1, No. 3, 7–8. Quoted in Leadership Statements and Quotes (Washington, DC: Headquarters Department of the Army, 1985), 3.

[4] Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2003), 4.