Effective Shepherding In Your Church: A Case Study

Timothy Witmer (2010)—author of The Shepherd Leader: Achieving Effective Shepherding in Your Church—says that servant leaders who act as shepherd leaders carry out multiple responsibilities. This study proposes the following responsibilities of K.E.E.P., which includes knowing, empowering, equipping, and protecting (Witmer 2010). Essentially, these four roles are a combination of servant leadership and agape love working together. However, Frederick Taylor (1915, 9)—author of The Principles of Scientific Management—argues that leaders do not need to take on multiple roles to develop employees (or teams for that matter) to their fullest potential, rather leaders should have each employee take on a specific role within the company and then work at learning that role to their fullest potential, in order to develop the utmost profit for both the company (i.e., Increased cash flow and business development) and the employee (i.e., Higher pay and increased effectiveness at assigned role/job). In contrast, Peter Drucker (2011, 18)—author of …show more content…
Followers/employees). Similar to a garden that has a wide variety of flowers, each individual sheep has different needs that have to be addressed in a particular manner. For instance, sunflowers need little attention, while on the other hand orchids need a lot of care and nurturing to be able to reach their fullest potential. If a gardener (or shepherd leader in this case) provides too much attention to a sunflower, then it would stunt their growth, whereas the opposite would be true for orchids (Wheeler 2013). William “Skip” Miller (2001, 43-64)—author of ProActive Sales Management—weighs in on this, saying, sales managers should make it a priority to know who their high performing salespeople are within the organization so they can spend the majority of their time focusing on 20% of the workforce’s needs who bring in 80% of the