Discussion Questions
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Before this lesson, how would you have described what a good leader does? How would you describe what a good leader does now?
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I feel that my answer would be the same, and as this lesson says, it is quite difficult to put into exact words. I think for me, the best answer is that a phenomenal leader has the “it” factor of a leader. Many definitions, however most people recognize specific people as “leaders” who they want to follow.
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I would have said a good leader is a servant leader because he/she serves/supports the followers.
Now I would say a good leader takes their followers somewhere they haven’t been and makes them better in the process.
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A good leader is a servant. Being a servant is like being a shepherd
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A good leader draws people to a better place.
A good leader leads people to a better spot.
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In the past I would define leadership as serving the people you hope to lead. Now I am reminded that leaders and coaches take us from where we are to where we need to be. Serving will be involved, but leadership is more process driven than outcome based.
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What is the difference between leadership and management?
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I would have said before that A leader leads. As a matter of fact, in one of my mentoring sessions, it was a discussion of whether I did/would lead from the back. There was much debate between us. And I had decided that maybe I was not a leader at all and had never been a leader in the past. But now, after coming far through this course, I look very different, and the funny thing about it is that I understand it as if my mind has opened up to the possibilities. I look at Leadership like this now for example: A Visionary Leader says to their followers – We want move out of this storefront church because the rent is too high; we will work on the finances on what we need and what we have already. We love our CHRIST! We love our CHURCH! We love our COMMUNITY! – We want to see more of our community in our House of Worship, so we will be reaching out to more of the community – leaders and schools – i.e., to let them know that we are here. We will come up with a new mission and vision – we are going to the street to bring others to Christ first, and we believe that this will assist us in getting into a new building of our own in the future.
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Leadership takes you somewhere you are not. Management keeps you functioning where you are.
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Management is the order and organization needed to get a task done or achieve a short term goal. Leadership is the ongoing pursuit of accomplishing all that needs to be done the best possible way it can be done leading to more internal and personal growth and setting higher goals to pursue.
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Leaders take people to a destination, managers keep things going where they are at.
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Leadership helps lead the way, management tells you what to do