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

2. 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?

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

4. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. visionary leader?
empowering leader?
servant-leader?
bridging leader?

13. 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.

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

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

18. 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

19. 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

20. Daghang salamat