406.2.2 leadership formation self skills
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406.2.2 Leadership Formation Self Skills. Saturday morning Why are self-skills important? Which self-skills are important? Handling power Monday morning Facilitative/empowering leadership Servant leadership, Self esteem Handling criticism, Vulnerability / accountability . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
406.2.2 Leadership Formation
Self Skills
Saturday morningWhy are self-skills important?
Which self-skills are important?Handling power
Monday morningFacilitative/empowering leadership
Servant leadership, Self esteemHandling criticism, Vulnerability / accountability
What are your questions on the issue of leadership and
character?Which aspects of the topic
particularly interest or intrigue you?
Forming Systems
Forming People
PERSONAL FORMATION
‘SELF SKILLS’
EngagingLocal
Context
Forming Systems
Forming People
PERSONAL FORMATION
‘SELF SKILLS’
EngagingLocal
Context
Self Skills= personal characteristics, attributes, character traits.
Gradually honed through practice
The goal of leadership is...?
[in the second century] the leadership preoccupation was about the formation of a people who would be socialized into a new society.
Issues of formation in a way of life are vitally important, where the leader is much more like the ancient abbot; today many books on leadership focus more on the leader as a skilful entrepreneur.
Which self-
skills?
Generic traits (self-skills) for
leadership
Traits needed in
our changing cultural
landscape
Traits needed for leading in this ‘spiritual season‘
1. GENERIC LEADERSHIP SELF-SKILLS
An important issueThe relative importance of:Specific ‘technical skills’Style of leadershipGeneric self skills
(character/personality traits)
technical skills
Style of leadership
character/personality traits
GENERIC CHARACTER TRAITS
TrustworthinessAbility to manage conflictPersonal maturityCourage
GENERIC CHARACTER TRAITS
TrustworthinessAbility to manage conflictPersonal maturityCourage
Social Influence Theory (Strong 1968) competent attractive trustworthy
Which self-
skills?
Generic traits (self-skills) for
leadership
Traits needed in
our changing cultural
landscape
Traits needed for leading in this ‘spiritual season‘
Modernity To
postmodernity
Christendom To
post-Christendombut
Post-secular context
‘Massive discontinuous change’ The need for the church to
move back into the community
THE CHANGING CULTURAL
LANDSCAPE
2. SELF SKILLS RELATED TO CULTURAL CHANGE
Which style of leadership best suits the current landscape?
The ‘expert’ leader
The Heroic Leader model
Missional Leadership model
Contextual Leadership
Stable conditions
Predictable change
‘EXPERT’LEADERSHIP
Specific challenge
Bravery needed
HEROIC LEADERSHIP
Discontinuous(unpredictable)
change
Experts deskillHeroes detract MISSIONAL
LEADERSHIP
Particular characteristics needed in our cultural landscape
Handling power
Desiring to serve
Handling criticism
Recovering from failure
Being vulnerable and
accountablePoor self-
image
Which self-
skills?
Generic traits (self-skills) for
leadership
Traits needed in
our changing cultural
landscape
Traits needed for this ‘spiritual season‘
3. SELF SKILLS RELATED TO THE ‘SPIRITUAL SEASON’
Which missional paradigm are we in?
•The apocalyptic early church
•The early Patristic paradigm
•The medieval Roman Catholic missionary paradigm
•The Protestant Reformation paradigm
•The modern Enlightenment paradigm
•The emerging ecumenical paradigm
4All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. 5 Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem. 6And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. 7Amazed and astonished, they asked, ‘Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? 8And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? 9Parthians, ...11Cretans and Arabs—in our own languages we hear them speaking about God’s deeds of power.’ 12All were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, ‘What does this mean?’
Language as the carrier of culture Pentecost as a reversal of Babel The Spirit as the bringer of unity The age of the Spirit is the age of
ecumenism (one body and one Spirit... one Lord, one faith, one baptism)
Irenaeus: ‘the Spirit bringing distant tribes to unity and offering to the Father the first fruits of all the nations.’
VATICAN II
‘On the day of Pentecost... was
foreshadowed the union of all peoples in the
catholicity of the faith by means of ...a
church which speaks every language,
understands and embraces all tongues in
clarity, and thus overcomes the dispersion of
Babel.’
Renewal, revival or restoration?
Fr Peter Hocken - Within the Catholic renewal people have
understood that their personal experience is for the sake of the whole church.
The renewal of the whole is the aim, not the fragmentation into parts that consider themselves particularly the beneficiaries of the Spirit.
Divisive, sectarian or elitist attitudes destroy the unity of the Spirit– so which ‘self-skills’ do we need in view of this?
Raniero Cantalamessa: The Mystery of Pentecost The builders of Babel were religious people
Augustine of Hippo got it wrong!
Contrast is between those willing to make a name for God and the desire to make a name for ourselves
Babel ‘is a project of unity born out of the desire for power, fame and arrogance.’
It is this mix of religious quest and personal desire for recognition that is insidious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-5tkirrXRQ
‘The biggest surprise for me occurred when, through reflecting on who the builders of Babel could have been, I discovered unexpectedly and with overwhelming evidence that I – alas – was one of them.’ (15)
The link between unity and mission
What are the challenges in working with others whose ecclesiology, practice and patterns of thought might be quite different from our own?
Which ‘self-skills’ are needed in this time of the outpouring of the Spirit in this ecumenical paradigm?
The link between unity, mission & the character traits (self-skills) this landscape of the Spirit requires
with all humility and gentleness,with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
The unity of the Spirit
HumilityServant
attitude, etc
‘...that the world might
know...’
Summary...Generic traits for any form of leadership –
trustworthiness, attractiveness/friendliness etc
Specific traits important in our cultural landscape – handling power in a ‘suspicious age’, recovering from failure in an age where change and experimentation are needed.
Traits related to our current ‘missional paradigm’ – including humility and the desire to serve others.