Leadership as Stewardship Antonio F Moreno SJ 17 July 2009, Friday DACS General Assembly Cor Jesu College Digos City

Inspiration: foundation of leadership What inspires me to be a leader? Am I inspired to lead? Do I get inspired when others lead? Who is my inspiration?

Types of educational governance Managing leader Systems person Takes pride in efficiency and productivity Goal-, result- and work-oriented Comfortable with routine work

Popular or charismatic leader addresses personal and collective sentiments of people people-oriented Gifted with a particular charisma that grabs the attention of followers Well-loved by people

Good leader rides on moral ascendancy focuses on keeping moral values person-oriented focuses on harmony and avoids conflict stresses solidarity and peace

Strong leader power-oriented decisive controlling and compelling confronts people easily thrives on conflict

Visionary leader imaginative and creative forward-looking future-oriented generates ideas

Empowering leader consultative, collegial focuses on consensus building community-oriented team builder

Servant-leader Leadership by example Leadership as an exercise of humility Leadership as an exercise of love and service

Bridging leader partnership building to bridge social divides engaging multi-stakeholders building consensus network-oriented

Am I a.... managing leader? popular leader? good leader? strong leader?

visionary leader? empowering leader? servant-leader? bridging leader?

What is leadership as stewardship? Finding the right mix of leadership brand according to the situation and exercising power and influence in shepherding people appear to make or break leaders. Leadership must come to terms with using power and influence to govern people. Stewardship is about shepherding, enabling, and making people realize their full potentials as persons.

Two modes of stewardship Political stewardship - the service that Catholic schools ought to deliver to strengthen our political system Ecclesial stewardship - the shepherding that Catholic schools ought to render to the local church

On ecclesial stewardship Some good stories NSTP in parish work synergy between schools and local church Friendship built over the time between local church and school leaders

Some challenges and issues “peaceful co-existence” relationship lack of shared vision and programs of Catholic schools and local church diocesan and congregational schools divide personalities of school heads and church leaders

turfing, protectionism lack of appreciation of the local church and education uneasy with partnership privileging of congregational identity over Catholic identity

Some ways forward Proactive stance of Catholic schools to be of service to the local church Participation in various activities of the local church Active involvement of our students and faculty & staff in local church activities Confidence building happens when there is shared vision and programs between the local church and CEAP schools

Schools leaders to take active role in the life of the local church Moving away from parochial thinking toward more universal belonging Clarity of Catholic mission and identity of CEAP schools should be underscored sorting out congregational charism in relation to Catholic identity

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