05
Aug
2010
Servant Leaders are followers, too…
Read a great post today by Tim Stevens called “Your Boss Needs You to Be…”. He lists twelve things your boss (no matter where you work) needs you to be. It’s a helpful list. Some of them that stood out for me:
Your Boss Needs You to Be:
- A Straight-Talker: don’t engage in triangle conversations or put-downs of your team or leaders.
- A Loyal-Friend—you don’t have to hang out together, but he needs to know you are “for” him. If put in a corner, your boss knows you would defend her.
- An Innovative Thinker—be solution-oriented. Don’t just come to your boss with problems, but also solutions. Your attitude should be, “Economy tough? Less staff? Lower budget? No problem, we’ll figure out a way to get through this!”
Even more than a helpful list, the post got me thinking about how Servant Leaders are followers, too. Of course, we follow Jesus. AND very few people in this world are not accountable to another leader in their life. We all follow someone (or many someones). Learning to be a good follower is an important Servant Leader skill. When we follow well, it impacts our church, family, company or other organization in hundreds of positive ways.
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Amen,Sue. One way or the other we do follow someone (s). One other thing: as a leader there is great joy in beging able to follow. It permits one to relax a bit; to rejoice that someone else can carry the load for a spell. Plus, it is simply a delight to experience another fine leader doing his or her thing. Karp