Stewardship

Servant leaders are trusted with the leadership of their organizations. When we hear the word stewardship with immediately think of money or resources, however, it goes much beyond that. Servant leaders hold in trust the organizations and people they lead and need to be committed to service and the betterment of the greater society they exist in.

Questions for Individual Reflection:

• What people, items, or opportunities do I have “in trust” today?

• How can I serve that trust as best as possible today?

• How was my stewardship yesterday? What could I have done better? What went well?

Exercise for Mentoring Connection:

• With your mentor, take an inventory of all you are currently stewarding.

• Once you have that inventory, discuss each one by one with the following questions:

  • Who has trusted me with stewarding this?

  • How can I serve others well?

  • How can I help others grow?

Question’s for group discussion:

• What is something you are in control of? Is that control preventing the growth of someone you lead?

• What are things you have been entrusted with? How are you viewing yourself as a steward rather than an owner/controller?

• What is an example of something you did not steward well?

• What is an example of something you did steward well?

After exploring this practice, here are outcomes we would like to see established in participants:

• Participants would have an awareness of the things they hold in trust.

• Participants would see those things as not things they own and control, but instead are entrusted with.

• Participants would find ways to relinquish complete control and work towards the ideas of openness and persuasion.