RESOURCES
Learn about Co-Serve publications that can serve as resources in your community.
Co-Serve staff have written the following books and resources on developing servant leadership communities. To order any of these publications, please write to us at info@co-serve.org. We will respond promptly and inform you the best way to obtain these resources.
Breaking the King Saul Syndrome by Jonathan Martin.
This book by Jonathan Martin, author of Giving Wisely, is a
prophetic and challenging call to all leaders, and in particular
church leaders, about the true nature of leadership. The temptation
for all leaders, even those who genuinely want to serve and help
their followers, is to build their own kingdom. This was the very
temptation faced by King Saul, and identified by Jonathan Martin as
the "King Saul Syndrome." This book reveals a dramatically different
and radical approach to leadership - the same approach modeled in the
Bible by Jonathan, John the Baptist, the Apostle Paul and Jesus. This
book explains this approach to leadership and the cure for the King
Saul Syndrome - giving the kingdom away to others. This is an important
and must read for anyone in a leadership position who wants to do
leadership the right way.
Creating University Cultures of Leadership by Marshall Christensen.
This book shares about the critical need to change the leadership cultures
at universities and higher education institutions to prepare graduates who
can confront the leadership crisis in the world. Marshall shares from his heart
and from his experiences in this book, as he takes the reader on a journey to
higher education institutions around the world and their efforts to change
their leadership culture to a culture of servant leadership. From Portland,
Oregon to Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan; from Kiev, Ukraine to Mindoro, Philippines,
Marshall shows us that change is possible, even in institutions with years of
"command-and-control" leadership cultures and traditions. In this book, Marshall
outlines a clear strategy for changing a university's culture and he introduces
an important set of standards that can be used to certify that universities are
modeling a new way - the way of servant leadership.
Building Servant Leadership Communities by Dan Ballast.
This discussion guide will help your department, team, or small group grow
as a community as they learn about servant leadership. Servant leaders create
a safe place for people - where they can be known and celebrated for their true
self and empowered to know and follow their unique purpose and call as part of
an interdependent community. In any context, whether in churches, schools or
businesses, building open and trusting communities is essential to servant leadership.
Building Servant Leadership Communities will help your group to consider together
16 servant leadership concepts. This guide is focused on helping groups of people
model these principles with each other and in each person's actions and behavior. If
taken seriously, this guide will not only help you to learn about communities of
servant leadership - it will help you to become a community of servant leadership.
Principles of Servant Leadership Course
Co-Serve International is now making available the full facilitator and student
materials for its 20-session course on the Principles of Servant Leadership. This
interactive, experiential course is intended for groups of up to 15 people and
contains detailed instructions for facilitating and debriefing numerous activities,
discussions and video clips.