The Importance Of A Good Servant Leader

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I have been on countless Church Leadership committees in which we were looking for and suggesting people for various roles within the Church.
Usually people would make their recommendations and everyone would agree and then we move forward in the process. However, there have been times when a recommendation was made that may not have seemed like a good choice. In those moments it was our obligation to reflect and ask ourselves: Why wouldn’t this person(s) make a good servant leader?
When I reflect on what does not make a good servant leader, my initial thoughts are; someone who isn’t trusting worthy, someone who is not encouraging and someone who does not act with humility.
I am going to take an opportunity to explore why not being trustworthy, …show more content…

If you are lacking experience and vision it would kind of be impossible to have humility. When a leader shows humility they are acknowledging to the people they are leading that they may have more knowledge and experience than they do. A good servant leader would use this as a teachable moment for themselves to learn and grow from the experiences and knowledge possessed by others who may be deemed as …show more content…

If you fail to acknowledge your limitations you have failed at creating, facilitating, encouraging and promoting a learning environment.
I recently attended a meeting in which the speaker stated, “Humility is a core component of servant leadership.” I reflected on that sentence and determined that humility is more about the success and growth of others than organizational success. It is truly more about growing and developing people. That was also an “aha moment” for me and made me think about my servant leadership a tad bit differently.
I consider myself to be a humble person, however, I have always felt my humbleness would grow the committee I was a part of or would get others on board of what I was doing at the moment. I never considered humility was about others growth and development. With this revelation it is possible that I may not make a good servant

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