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1. Leadership Training
Nov,2024
Addis Ababa ,Ethiopia

2. Topics to be Covered
1. Leadership and the truth about you
2. Attitude of a leader
3. Spiritual Principles For leadership
Success
4. Characteristics of a leader
5. Conclusion

3. Leadership and the truth about you
• Here I am!
• Let’s go for it!
• I’m not gifted in this area!
• Hold everything, let us talk about this!
• Not now… may be latter when I am ready
Agree or Disagree
• Leaders are made, not born.
• Leaders lead more by influence than by position

4. Leadership and the truth about
you
• Leaders will always have follower.
• One who thinks he is a leader, but has
no followers is merely taking a walk.
E.V. Hill

5. The truth….
• Lead, Follow, or get out of the way.
Bumper Sticker
• Who do you influence? How?
1Timothy 4:12-16
• What does it mean to be an example in this
areas?

6. The truth..
• Speech
• Life
• Love
• Faith
• Purity
• What do you think about your self?
• To feel better about them selves students……

7. The truth
• I feel better about myself when…
SELF-IMMAGE!
• What we come to believe about our selves
PROBLEM!
• We tend to compare our weaknesses with other
persons strength or vise versa.

8. The truth About you
• How do you describe a person with a self image that
is …
• Too High
• Too Low
• Accurate
• How do you rate your self-image?
• Let us consider on…
• Psalm 139:13-16

9. Sources of self image
• Where do you think ones self image
comes from?
• The Bible reveals many truths about you
Unique
opportunities
Eph 2:10
Abilities and gifts
Roman s 12:3-6
Identity in Christ
EPH 1:3-14
Personality
Gen 1:26-27
The
TRUTH
about you

10. Attitude of a leader
• Inward feelings expressed by behavior personal view
of something
• Leadership is not merely a Job. It is SERVICE!
• Your heart is more important than your skill.
• The goal of spiritual leadership is not merely to get
the job done.
• Spiritual leadership values people more than the task.
• Leadership is neither position nor power!!
• It is an opportunity to serve like a slave of Jesus!

11. Jesus’ Way of Leadership
• Luke 22:24-27
• John 13: 1-17
• Servant leadership is different than servant
hood.
• All Christians, not just leaders, are called to
be servants, serving each other, following
Jesus' example in washing his disciples' feet,
and loving our neighbors as ourselves

12. Continued..
• If personal desire was the sole decision
criteria, Jesus would have chosen not to go
through the pain and suffering on the cross
(Luke 22:42)
• Servant leaders are not leaders on the basis of
their position or leadership role, but rather lead
according to their calling, vision and principles

13. Continied…
• "Example is not the main thing in influencing
others, it is the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer
• Spiritual leadership is an opportunity to move the
people of God to God’s agenda by God’s grace
and favor
• God’s agenda is at the Center of spiritual
leadership.
• God is the AUTHOR of the leaders, the followers
and the cause!!

14. Jesus’ Way of Leadership

15. Spiritual Principles For Leadership
Success
I. Prayer ( Neh 1:1-11, Ex 17:10-13)
• Prayer is basic foundation for spiritual leadership.
II. Vision (Neh 2:11-14, Jer 1:11-12, Pr 29:18)
• Vision is a map for the destination (an informed bridge
from the present to a better future)
• Wrong map will take to wrong destination.
• Vision is seeing the future ,in the present, built the past”
• Vision is seeing the invisible and making it visible
• All good leaders are driven by Vision

16. Continue……
• Seek a divine Diagnosis : What is the issue to be
resolved V.37
• Pray to determine what action could meet that need. V.38
• Choose a team and empower them for Partnership
• Take immediate action toward the fulfillment of the
Vision. V 10:5
III. Plan (Neh 2:1-20, Luke 14:28-32)
• Plan is a back bone to our leadership. Our God is a God
of plan and Order

17. Spiritual Principles For leadership
Success
IV. Vision Sharing ( Neh 2:17-20)
V. Organizing and Coordinating Resources
( Neh 3:1 -32, Ex 17: 8-9)
VI. Partnership (Neh 2:1-8, EX 17:8-16)
VII. Faith And Action ( Neh 4:1-23, 2Tim 4:1-
22
VIII. Evaluation and Revision ( Neh 5:1-13,
7:1-13)

18. Spiritual Principles For leadership
Success
• A success in leadership doesn’t come simply
because we have plan and we are working hard.
• We need to have:
• Strong Fellowship with God ( Neh 8:18, 2Chr
20:17-23)
• Life of Obedience (Neh 8 : 3-6
• Sacrificial Love

19. Spritual …
• Spiritual leaders are to be servants,
submissive to those in authority, to one
another, and to those in need; they must
be willing to lay aside pride and prestige,
and with genuine humility serve others
rather than seek to be served; they must
be forgiving and giving and passionate;
people should be able to look to them for
guidance in loving service

20. 4. How to Lead I
A. Definition: Leading is causing people to
take effective Action.
• You are not a leader by virtue of your
position.
• You are a leader by virtue of your
performance
B. A leader is one who does two things.
First, he knows where he is going.
Second, he is able to pursue others to go
along with him.

21. How to lead
• That is, a leader is a person deeply
infected with a concept, an idea, a cause.
Second, there is a relational element. A
good leader needs an interest in an idea,
but he also needs an interest in people.
• Two basic questions:
• What is that really drives you?
• Where are your men?

22. How to lead
• How do you become a man who knows
where he is going?
1. You must develop deep personal
conviction ( read The Bible)
2. Consistent time for meditation, time to
think, to write and reflect
3. You need consistent guidance (Pr 3:5-6,
Rom 14:5)

23. How to lead
3.1. Develop a personal schedule .Discipline
involves control of self. Discipline in terms
of self control always a purpose.
“ You can’t just pick up somebody else’s
schedule”
3.2. You must subordinate all of your life
under your goal. Set boundaries!
3.3. You need a willingness to make
decisions

24. How to lead
• You need to embrace a sense of mission
and destiny .
• You must learn to live with tension, the
realization that you never arrived.
• Good is the enemy of best.

25. 5. How to lead II
• Become more infectious. Leadership is
more caught than thought
• Perceive others in terms of their potential.
We tend to see people only what they are,
not in terms of what they can become.
• Master the art of developing people-not
manipulating them
• Become a self-starter.

26. How to lead II
• Your greatest problem is not motivating
others; it is keeping others from
demotivating you
• Minister to the whole person

27. 6. Character tics of a leader
• 1Tomothy 3:1
• Marks of a mature leader
A. Staying Power ( the key to leadership is endurance)=>
Maturity never resigns
B. Virile (Strong ) private life
You show me a man strong in public, and I show you a man
strong in private.
C. Self-mastery
• A leader has control on every area of his life-his time, money,
lust, discouragement… etc
• Every area of your life must be under the sovereign control
of the Holy Sprit

28. Marks…
• Time is our greatest commodity ; therefore
wasting time is the greatest prodigality.
D. Model
• No other form of teaching is effective
E. Resistance
• Not resistance to idea, but resistance to
opposition.
• Discouragement is leukemia of the Sprit.
• Difficult circumstances are tests of leadership!!

29. Mark…
F. Servant hood
G. Confidence
• A leader has a high confidence in God
• Leaders without confidence are known after
their control of power
H. Positive attitude
• Of all the "attitudes" we can acquire, surely the
attitude of gratitude is the most important and
by far the most life-changing. Zig-zag

30. The mark
• "I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the under dog, I still
prepare a victory speech."
H. Jackson Browne
• "There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes." William
John Bennett
• Sometimes we are limited more by attitude than by
opportunities."Anonymous
• "Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose
it for you."Anonymous
• "The control center of your life is your
attitude." Anonymous

31. Mark…
• "A positive attitude may not solve all your
problems, but it will annoy enough people to
make it worth the effort."
Herm Albright
• Happiness is not by chance, but by choice."
Jim Rohm
• "Live with passion." Anthony Robbins
• "A man without a smiling face must not open
a shop."Chinese Proverb

32. Mark…
I. Perception
• A true leader is a perceptive person. He
is forward looking. Yet he is discerning of
the present he is future-oriented; but he
is presently involved
J. Teachablity
K. Faith

33. 7. Delegation and Team Work
• Definition: Delegation is the on-going
process by which a leader assigns
additional Responsibilities and Authority.
• EX: Moses (Numbers 11:17)
• No one can be good at everything.
• If you think you can do everything you are
either too proud or too selfish. Or you are
unrealistic about yourself!

34. Delegation
• If you don’t delegate your jobs many times
it will become too big for you.
• You will tend to carry all the burden on
your shoulders alone, when others are
looking for opportunity to share it with you
• Your people will become staid and
dormant in their jobs and will tend not to
feel stretched and challenged

35. Delegation
• If you do delegate:
• You, personally, will benefit from others
share with you in the burdens of your
responsibility.
• Your people will develop self-confidence
and capability to assume more
responsibilities
• The total amount of work accomplished
will increase

36. Principles of delegation
• Your ability to motivate the person to
whom you are delegating will in many
ways, determine his success or failure.
• Be aware of the personal development of
your people and delegate the right amount
of new responsibility at the right time.
• Delegation requires a commitment of time
and follow through from you

37. Principles of delegation
• Be aware of action on your part that tend
to contradict rather than reinforce an initial
delegation
• How to Delegate
1. Preparation:
a. Activity:
Determine which activity to delegate

38. Priorities
Urgent Not Urgent
Importan
t
I II
ot
mportant
III IV

39. How to delegate
• Communication
• Observation
• Application……….

40. 8. Important TIPS
• Some Costs of leadership
A. Misunderstanding
B. Opposition ( from world, the people,
family…)
C. Too much work ( time, money ,comfort,
family)

41. Leadership Traps
1. Power/Pride
• Earthly, from the devil (“when pride comes then comes
disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom”-pr 11:2
2. WOMEN
• 246 Christian’s leaders who had moral failure in 24
months
• All of them counseled women and they were alone while
counseling
• Each had stopped daily personal devotion
• All said that “moral failure will not happen to me”
• None of them had accountability relationship

42. Leadership Traps
• Money
• Interested in looking good than doing good
• Unfaithful in small things
• Bad ethics and wrong values
• (Qualification for a public ministry is not
giftedness but a proven character” (Steve
Farrar)
• Pr 10:9

43. Important tips on Sin
• The Power of sin
• Sin will take you further than you want
to go (2Sam 11:6-15)
• Sin will keep you longer that you want
to stay 2sam 12:1-7)
• Sin cost you more than you want to
pay (1king 1:1-4)

44. Conclusion
• Avoid Bad Choices
• Listen and obey God
• Experience “Private Victories”
• Develop a habit of long obedience in the same
direction
• Focus on the finish line and on Jesus
• Depend on God’s strength
• Don’t be like one of the ten Spies
• 2Tim 4:6-8
• Fought the good fight, not the wrong fight

45. Conclusion
• Keep the faith, be faith full in private and in public in
small things and in big
• Live to finish the race
• You will receive the crown of righteousness
• Be a person of Character
• Love all people, trust few
• Take time to pray and study the bible
• Know that being leader is a divine opportunity to
serve other people
• May God be with you!!!