GIFTS: Great Ideas for Teaching Servant-Leadership

1. GIFTS: Great Ideas for Teaching Servant-Leadership Mary Klein & Marilyn Bugenhagen Marian University, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Greenleaf Center International Conference on Servant-Leadership Milwaukee, Wisconsin June 2009 • www.spiritualityandleadership.com

2. Welcome & Introductions Plan for this Workshop • www.spiritualityandleadership.com

3. Dyad Exercise The Challenges of Teaching Servant-Leadership • www.spiritualityandleadership.com

4. Teaching and Facilitating through Active Learning • Assumptions about learning • Persons of all ages have potential to learn, with some learning faster than others. • Learning is more comfortable and effective when • Environmental conditions support open exchange • Sharing of opinions • Problem-solving strategies • www.spiritualityandleadership.com

5. Teaching and Facilitating through Active Learning • Assumptions about learning • Instructor facilitates learning by incorporating • Learners' experience • Observations of others • Personal ideas & feelings • Depth of long-term learning may depend on extent to which learners try to analyze, clarify, or articulate own experiences to others. • www.spiritualityandleadership.com

6. Teaching and Facilitating through Active Learning • Assumptions about learning • Learning opportunity may only provide one step in an individual's progress toward acquiring new behaviors. • Learning improves when learner is active participant in educational process. • www.spiritualityandleadership.com

7. Teaching and Facilitating through Active Learning • Constructing learning activities • Diagnose • Design or develop • Deliver • Discern • www.spiritualityandleadership.com

8. Teaching and Facilitating through Active Learning • Types of Active Learning Strategies • Openers • Dyads, Small Group • Exercises • Tools for self-discovery learning • Case method – written/film • Reflection • Closers • www.spiritualityandleadership.com

9. Small Group Exercise • Servant-Leadership Attributes • Self Awareness • Active Listening • Facilitating Collaboration • Fostering growth • Coaching and Mentoring • Stimulating Creativity • Community Building • www.spiritualityandleadership.com

10. Small Group Exercise • Group work to generate many, many ideas…. • www.spiritualityandleadership.com

11. Great Ideas For Teaching Servant-Leadership • Our experience with these activities in teaching servant-leadership • www.spiritualityandleadership.com

12. Great Ideas For Teaching Servant-Leadership • How to add to the ideas through a knowledge community on • servant-leadership • www.spiritualityandleadership.com

13. Contributing Your own GIFTS Activity Title: • Group size and Time Needed IdentifyServant-Leadership Attribute Objectives/Goals/Purposeof activity Material Needed Directionsfor the activity Questions or Process for Debriefing Activity Describewhen activity is best utilized Variations and/or helpful hints • www.spiritualityandleadership.com

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15. Resources: Eitington, J. E. (1996). The winning trainer: Winning ways to involve people in learning. Houston, TX: Gulf Publishing. Greenleaf, R.K. (1970). The servant as leader. Greenleaf Center. Keith, K. (2008). A case for servant-leadership. Greenleaf Center. Silberman, M. (2006). Active training: A handbook of techniques, designs, case examples, and tips. New York, NY: Wiley & Sons. Silberman, M. (2005). 101 ways to make training active. New York, NY: Wiley & Sons. Spears, L.C. (1997). Insights on leadership: Service, stewardship, spirit, and servant-leadership. New York, NY. Wiley & Sons. • www.spiritualityandleadership.com