The Serving Leadership Journey

Leadership is a journey, not a destination. We grow and develop over time, expanding in both our capacity and influence. While some are born with natural leadership traits, leadership capacity can be developed in anyone, especially if they are willing to pursue self-leadership and learn from experience. Influence will naturally follow anyone who remains on this journey.

Everyone's leadership begins with themselves. Before leading others, one should conquer self-leadership to become a leader worth following; it's where trust and credibility are built. One-on-one leadership increases that trust to the point where a leader can unite diverse personalities into a community or team. If teams are equipped and developed, they can be formed into an organization leading to higher and higher levels of effectiveness around a vision and mission.

This, in fact, is the model of Jesus Christ. Conquering three temptations that all had to do with self-leadership, he became a leader worth following. He then called his disciples one by one, forming them into a team that eventually went out and turned the world upsidedown through a movement called the church.

[Our next post will examine the three temptations of Jesus that made him a leader worth following.]