The Leaders’ Table
Reading Grab a Towel is not meant to be purely an academic exercise!
Growth in leadership comes through ‘doing life together’– literally, sitting round a table (preferably over a meal or at least a coffee) and engaging deeply, holding one another accountable, and encouraging one another to become more proficient leaders.
The table is a place of mutual submission and respect, where each person can grow to become a better leader within their sphere of influence.
The Grab a Towel Interaction guide and video series have been developed to help Leaders’ Table groups effectively engage with the material and enable participants to grow as Christ-centred servant leaders.
A group of school teachers in Pretoria have been established their own Leader’s Table and have been working through the book. They sent me the following feedback after one of their sessions:
‘I also would like to affirm once more how much our leadership team is benefitting from watching you speak about each chapter in Grab a Towel. We finish watching and listening and silence creeps into the room as we absorb the impact of your explanations on servant leadership. Then we begin to talk about how far short we seem to fall from what is required from a servant leader, then how we can move toward the teaching you have just presented. We looked at being deep wells. All of us voiced the opinion that the majority of leaders today are shallow wells to whom we would not go for help in times that we needed it. A healthy and vigorous conversation followed hard on the heels of this to try and understand how we can be deep wells to those we lead. We looked at relationship with God. We were blessed by the fact that ordinary people can be deep wells – no special knowledge is required! How approachable leaders need to be trustworthy, have time for others, need to be good listeners, have a sense of humility, need to show vulnerability as opposed to the appearance of having it all together, should practice grace rather than being bound by law, should wield authority gently plus a lot more. It was a really good time. I love seeing the school leaders developing the idea of servant leadership as it applies to them.’
If you have enjoyed Grab a Towel… then why not think about starting your own Leaders’ Table group. Feel free to contact me for more information. Additionally, Christian Book Discounters are offering an incredible price on the Grab a Towel pack (South Africa only)… click here for more information.
