Why This Horse Won

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Why This Horse Wont DrinkBuilding Team into
the Christian School Staff

• Derek J. Keenan Ed.D
• Vice President for Academic Affairs
• derek_keenan_at_acsi.org

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You can lead a horse to water, but

• Staff will not drink just because the water is
  there
• Staff will not drink just because others are at
  the same water hole
• Staff will lead to deep water just because some
  others do

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Implications for the Christian School

• Excellence
• Staff
• Vision
• Mission
• Goals
• Growth
• Appreciation

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Effectiveness of the team model

• Is it a godly model?
• Isaiah and Jeremiah
• Gospels, Acts and Paul

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Old Testament Model

• Leadership requires deep conviction in Gods will
  for both leaders and followers.
• Leadership requires clear theological
  perspective.
• Leadership requires awareness of contemporary
  surroundings

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New Testament Model

• Leadership is Servanthood
• Leadership is Stewardship
• Leadership is Shared Power
• Kenn Gangel
• Team Leadership
• in Christian Ministry

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The Enemies of Leadership

• Indecision
• Apathy
• Prejudice
• Ignorance
• Imitation
• Arrogance
• Inefficiency

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Three Biblical Commitments for Team Building

• Nurture cultivation of qualities
• Modeling examples worthy of emulation
• Expansive spreading of opportunity and
  responsibility

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decision making

• The operational test of a team model leadership
  philosophy is

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Why Horses Wont Drink

• Participatory culture
• Relational environment
• Democratic control

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What makes horses drink?

• High value is evident
• Take away my people but leave my factories and
  soon the grass will grow on the factory floor.
  Take away my factories but leave my people and
  soon we will have a new and better factory.
• Andrew Carnegie

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What makes horses drink?

• Great ideas bubble up from below

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What makes horses drink?

• Push decision making down and out
• When the best leaders job is done the people
  will say,
• We did it ourselves!

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J. Oswald SandersSpiritual Leadership

• Leadership is the ability to recognize the
  special abilities and limitations of others,
  combined with the capacity to fit each one into
  the job where he or she will do their best.

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Max DepreeLeadership Is An Art

• Leadership is to be committed to a corporate
  concept of persons, the diversity of human gifts,
  covenantal relationships, lavish communications,
  including everyone, and believing that leadership
  is a condition of indebtedness.

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