One question, four answers

DAVID SALSBURY
‘A good leader is also a follower’

There are many right answers to this question – and if recent events in British politics are anything to go by, quite a few wrong ones too!…

David Salsbury is the Programme Manager for Stepwise and Coordinator of the United Reformed Church’s Church Leadership Programme

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CHINE MCDONALD
‘They will act with integrity’

I am a few weeks into my new job as director of Theos thinktank, so naturally I’ve been thinking a lot about my own leadership style and what makes someone a good leader…

Chine McDonald is Director of Theos think tank and the author of God Is Not a White Man: And other revelations, published by Hodder & Stoughton

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LORD ELORM-DONKOR
‘Leadership is about being’

Three things make a good leader. First, a sense of calling; second, an understanding of the purpose (the why) of the calling; and third, a good character….

Lord Elorm-Donkor is Principal of Birmingham Christian College, Selly Oak, and District Pastor of the Birmingham District of the Church of Pentecost UK

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JILL SEGGER
‘Issuing orders cannot build trust’

This is an interesting question for a Quaker. The Society of Friends has prospered for over three and a half centuries without leaders. Indeed, we eschew the very concept of individual leadership, instead working out our decision-making and action through a process of shared discernment….

Jill Segger is a writer and the Associate Director of the think tank Ekklesia

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This is an extract from an article published in the March 2022 edition of Reform

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