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406.2.2 Leadership Formation Self Skills

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 .

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406.2.2 Leadership Formation Self Skills

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  1. 406.2.2 Leadership Formation Self Skills

  2. 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

  3. What are your questions on the issue of leadership and character? Which aspects of the topic particularly interest or intrigue you?

  4. Self Skills = personal characteristics, attributes, character traits. Gradually honed through practice

  5. 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.

  6. 1. GENERIC LEADERSHIP SELF-SKILLS • An important issue • The relative importance of: • Specific ‘technical skills’ • Style of leadership • Generic self skills (character/personality traits)

  7. GENERIC CHARACTER TRAITS • Trustworthiness • Ability to manage conflict • Personal maturity • Courage

  8. GENERIC CHARACTER TRAITS • Trustworthiness • Ability to manage conflict • Personal maturity • Courage • Social Influence Theory (Strong 1968) • competent • attractive • trustworthy

  9. 2. SELF SKILLS RELATED TO CULTURAL CHANGE

  10. Contextual Leadership

  11. Particular characteristics needed in our cultural landscape

  12. 3. SELF SKILLS RELATED TO THE ‘SPIRITUAL SEASON’

  13. Which missional paradigm are we in?

  14. 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?’

  15. 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.’

  16. 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.’

  17. 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?

  18. 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

  19. ‘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?

  20. 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.

  21. 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.

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