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This document provides an overview of leadership and its purposes. It defines leadership as a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective. The document then discusses two key purposes of leadership: 1) community development, which involves community members coming together to address common problems, and 2) service, which refers to the work or help provided for others. It provides several examples and characteristics of effective community development, noting it should be a long-term, well-planned, and inclusive process that empowers community members and improves quality of life.

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This document provides an overview of leadership and its purposes. It defines leadership as a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective. The document then discusses two key purposes of leadership: 1) community development, which involves community members coming together to address common problems, and 2) service, which refers to the work or help provided for others. It provides several examples and characteristics of effective community development, noting it should be a long-term, well-planned, and inclusive process that empowers community members and improves quality of life.

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Course #: INSTI.

104
Course Title: MDCians as Servant Leaders

Lesson 3

LEARNING CONTENT: LEADERSHIP AND ITS PURPOSES


A. INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the third week of this course on MDCians as Servant Leaders. Here, we will
journey together in learning on the leadership and its purposes.

B. LESSON CONTENT

What is leadership?
Leadership is a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective
and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent. Some
other popular definitions of Leadership are:
 A process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to
achieve a common goal
 The U.S. military has studied leadership in depth. One of their definitions
is a process by which a person influences other to accomplish a mission
(U.S. Army,1983).
 Leadership is inspiring others to pursue your vision within the parameters
you set, to the extent that it becomes a shared effort, a shared vision, and a
shared success.
 Leadership is a process of social influence, which maximizes the efforts of
others, towards the achievement of a goal.

Purposes of Leadership

1. Community development
Community development is a process where community members come together to take
collective action and generate solutions to common problems. Community wellbeing
(economic, social, environmental and cultural) often evolves from this type of collective
action being taken at a grassroots level. Community development ranges from small
initiatives within a small group to large initiatives that involve the broader community.
 Effective community development should be:
 a long-term endeavor
 well-planned
 inclusive and equitable
 holistic and integrated into the bigger picture
 initiated and supported by community members
 of benefit to the community
 grounded in experience that leads to best practices

 Community development is a grassroots process by which communities:


 become more responsible
 organize and plan together
 develop healthy lifestyle options
 empower themselves
 reduce poverty and suffering
 create employment and economic opportunities
 achieve social, economic, cultural and environmental goals
Community development seeks to improve quality of life. Effective community
development results in mutual benefit and shared responsibility among community
members. Such development recognizes:
 the connection between social, cultural, environmental and economic matters
 the diversity of interests within a community
 its relationship to building capacity

Community development helps to build community capacity in order to address issues


and take advantage of opportunities, find common ground and balance competing
interests. It doesn’t just happen – capacity building requires both a conscious and a
conscientious effort to do something (or many things) to improve the community.
The community development process takes charge of the conditions and factors that
influence a community and changes the quality of life of its members. Community
development is a tool for managing change but it is not:
 a quick fix or a short-term response to a specific issue within a community;
 a process that seeks to exclude community members from participating; or
 an initiative that occurs in isolation from other related community activities.

Community development is about community building as such, where the process is as


important as the results. One of the primary challenges of community development is to
balance the need for long-term solutions with the day-to-day realities that require
immediate decision-making and short-term action.

2. Service
 work done or help provided, esp. for the public or for a person or an organization
 the particular skills that someone can offer to others

C. PERFORMANCE TASKS/ASSESSMENT:
Activity
1. What can you say about the human situation where you are a part of as
youth/Filipino/Christian?
Take note: the framework to be applied should be (ECONOMIC, POLITICAL,
SPIRITUAL, and CULTURAL)
2. What is supposed to be the ideal situation for them as human/Filipino/Christian?

Example for number 1 and 2 (Do not include in your answers the situations presented in the
examples):
The Human Situation

SITUATION ECONOMIC POLITICAL SOCIAL RELIGION/


CULTURE
WHAT SCARCITY OF VOICELESS INDIVIDUALISTIC FANATIC
FOOD

LANDLESS DEPRIVED VICES FAITH IS WEAK/FOLK


OR RELIGIOSITY
OPPRESSED
IDEAL ABUNDANCE HAS VOICE COMMUNITARIAN INTEGRITY OF FAITH
SITUATION AND ACTION
OWN LAND RESPECTED RESPONSIBLE PRINCIPLED
TO TILL

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