Servant Leadership Models for Your Parish offers practical wisdom based on solid research about the practice of servant leadership. Models created from church-based research include: seven behaviors practiced by leaders and members in a servant-led organization, seven "keys" that explain why servant leadership works, and many real-life examples that describe how servant leadership works. The main message here is that if the leader serves the people, the mission and the organization, the people will serve each other, the mission and the organization.

Servant Leadership Models for Your Parish

Religion & Spirituality

Ebener, Dan R.

Christian Books & Bibles

Paulist Press

Strategic planning here is an interactive process in which leaders, managers, and followers create a common goal together. Ebener and Smith, using their years of experience as consultants and teachers, have distilled their knowledge into a simple step-by-step process that can be used in the three types of organizations: business, not-for-profit, and public. The importance of planning and preparation, prioritizing needs, communication, and accountability in implementation are highlighted. Introduction: Strategic Leadership Chapter 1: Set the Stage Initiate the Interactive Process Chapter 2: Do Your Homework Chapter 3: Name Your Culture Chapter 4: Frame the Questions Chapter 5: Answer the Questions Chapter 6: Take Action Chapter 7: Lead the Vision Chapter 8: Hold Yourself Accountable

Strategic Planning: An Interactive Process for Leaders

Business & Money

Smith, Frederick L.

Management & Leadership

In this practical, visionary, and accessible book, veteran teacher, author, and parish leader Dan Ebener explores what it takes to lead in a Catholic parish. He contends that anyone can lead change in a parish with or without positional authority. The premise of this book is that the Church needs leadership. In most places, the Church is over-managed and under-led. To turn this around, we need clergy to: 1. Provide more leadership and less management themselves. 2. Develop the leadership potential of the laity. We need lay people to step up to lead and to manage. If the Church is to become more alive, we need lay people to step up and lead change as well. On the management side, we need clergy to step back and lay people to step up. On the leadership side, we need lay people who can lead without authority and clergy who can lead from a position of authority. Readers of this book seminarians, priests, deacons, and lay leaders will find this book enlightening and useful in their approach to parish leadership.

Pastoral Leadership

Paulist Press International,U.S.

"Most of us use the word leadership to describe those in authority. This book will argue that leadership can emerge from anywhere, in any context or any organization. The use of coercive, command and control methods fail to engage others in a leadership process. However, those in authority can choose to lead, and can choose to create the structures and build a culture that encourages leadership"--

Leadership for the Greater Good: A Textbook for Leaders

Jalsenjak, Borna

In Blessings for Leaders, Dan Ebener skillfully weaves an understanding of one of the most powerful and familiar Bible passages with insights drawn from his experience developing faith-filled leaders in churches, businesses, and not-for-profit organizations. Each chapter begins with Scripture, reflects on the inward journey of leadership through the virtues associated with that Beatitude, and addresses some of the outward challenges of leadership. The book makes specific suggestions about mission, vision, core values, followership, conflict resolution, emotional intelligence, communication and listening, team-building, meeting facilitation, innovation, and leading change.
Straightforward, easy to read, and filled with illuminating stories, this book is ideal for anyone searching for Christian insight into leadership and for groups journeying to a deeper understanding of Jesus' Vision for leadership.

Blessings for Leaders: Leadership Wisdom from the Beatitudes

Liturgical Press