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The Servant Leader’s Garden: Without Change There’s No Growth

by Thorsten Grahn on January 9, 2012 in Change, Leadership, Methods, Organisational Leadership, Pepole Development, Performance, Role Model, Servant Leader, SL, Strengths and Weaknesses, Team, Training

This article focuses on some key realities about the growth of people and the Christian servant leader’s role in its facilitation. First it’s the recognition that growth in organizations is as dependent upon God as is growth in a garden. However, growth needs to be fostered; it requires sufficient room for the individual to grow but excessive growth on the part of one can constrain and deprive another. Even then the difficult process of “pruning” is required to help shape and direct people, increasing their fruitfulness. But perhaps the most uncomfortable aspect of growth is change. This is inevitable.

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The Servant Leader’s Garden: Grass Doesn’t Grow Faster If You Pull It

by Thorsten Grahn on November 16, 2011 in Leadership, Methods, Organisational Leadership, Pepole Development, Performance, Role Model, Servant Leader, SL, Training

In many aspects, the task of the gardener in a garden is similar to the task of the Christian servant leader modelled on Jesus Both will study the environment, define a specific purpose, prepare a place that is conducive for growth, get the right plants/people in to be able to fulfil the purpose, and tend to the individual plants/people to help them grow and bear fruit. A garden is made up of single plants and much additional insight can be gained from considering the role of a single plant – or even parts of a plant – in the garden, and applying those insights to the role of a leader in an organization.

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The Christian Servant Leader’s Role Model: How to Develop People like Jesus

by Mike Waddell on August 12, 2011 in Change, Church Leadership, CL, Leadership, Methods, Organisational Leadership, Pepole Development, Role Model, Servant Leader, SL, Training

Often as Christian leaders we look to Jesus only as a spiritual role model and then we look to the world for our models of leadership. Whilst the world’s models are not always bad, many aspects of them are poor from a Christian perspective or need to be tempered with the Gospel. Because Jesus, amongst other things, is the role model for the whole of the Christian’s life we can, if we look, learn from him how to be Christ-like Christian leaders.

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