Tuesday, 24 August 2010

Collective Leadership

The Swallow and her mate missed the third session of the course on Biblical Principles for Leading with Love as they had a short holiday with the mate's colleagues in Sentosa over the long weekend which tied up with Singapore's National Day celebration.

However, the Swallow and her mate is grateful to the course's moderator who sent them the notes and highlighted a little of what the session was about.

Collective leadership is about teamwork.  It is about people with various leadership styles who come together to make decisions - important decisions or not, big or small decisions.  It is about how these people work as a team to come to a mutual agreement to carry out the decisions which will affect the people around them.

In a church, collective leadership will be about a group of men, selected as elders, who will make wise decisions together - decisions that will affect the flock that they have been tasked to oversee, decisions that will decide the course on how the church will follow after its Lord God.

In a family, collective leadership will be about a team of husband and wife who works together and who makes decisions together for the benefit of the family.  Sometimes this decision making process may include their children too.

A quiz question was also given...If two horses can pull 9000 pounds, how many pounds can four horses pull?  30000 pounds!

"A team is capable of accomplishing things that no individual, no matter how multi-talented, could do alone".

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