8. Grow in Wisdom For intellectual health intentionally and regularly engage in learning opportunities I am part of the KINDLE Program Team. This team, led by Michelle Pavasars (an aside: Michelle is an EXCELLENT meeting-leader…if she asks you to be on a team of hers, say yes so you can experience this), consists of the [...]

I have a growing respect for the KINDLE Strands, Practices and Outcomes. These four strands of Servant Leadership (Leadership of Leaders, Stewardship of Self, Leadership of Groups and Stewardship of Faith) and their accompanying practices and outcomes have yet to grow old for me, even after working with them for almost 10 years. They are [...]

KINDLE Strand: Stewardship of Self Practice 10: Stay Connected- For social health, see the mutual conversation and consolation of other Christians. I love basketball—and it’s hard not to love John Wooden when you love basketball. He died last week at the age of 99. Great coach, but as I heard one person say, “great man”. [...]

KINDLE Strand: Stewardship of Faith Practice 20: Serve Others –Present your life as a living sacrifice, responding in graciousness and hospitality This is a great quote from a new book called “The Humanitarian Jesus: Social Justice and the Cross” by Christian Buckley and Ryan Dobson. I didn’t read the book, although I did read an [...]

KINDLE Strand: Leadership of Leaders KINDLE Practice: 5. Encourage One Another Celebrate and recognize accomplishments that help achieve the vision and mission. I totally get that part of leading leaders is encouraging them: watching for the things they do that demonstrate excellence or clearly contribute to mission and telling them how great they are. This [...]

The blog will often have posts that are related to the KINDLE Strands and Practices. These are four strands and 20 practices (five practices in each strand) that help develop Servant Leader Skills. To see a current copy, click here: SPO-Version02. But don’t get too attached—they’re under revision! We’ll share the new set as soon [...]

Here we go! Welcome to  Number One post for the KINDLE Servant Leaders Blog. This blog has been a dream of KINDLE’s for a while now. We thought our amazing 10th Anniversary Year would be a good time to kick it off.  Can’t tell you how honored I am to write it, although right now [...]