Servant Leaders
Conceptualizing and emotional healing and two very important parts of servant leadership (Northouse, 2016). Each allows the servant leader to embrace the situation and be part of it through an intuitive process that promotes growths and unity. Conceptualizing for example allows the servant leader to realize and understand the mission or spirit of the organization for which he is operating. He has a deep comprehension of this mission and makes it his own, so that he is one with it and the ideals that the organization promotes flow out through him as a result. Emotional healing is what is meant by being involved in another person's feelings: it means taking care to not offend others and to sympathize with them and to be a listener and an empathetic force in their recovery and growth.
While transformational leadership is about transforming those around us to be better people, better workers, or better leaders through demonstration and example (by leading the way, in other words), servant leadership is about leading from behind. It does not challenge persons to challenge by setting the example or the bar; it assists people to grow by being...
It is this good example that helps followers to grow into healthier persons.
Agreeableness is also an important aspect to servant leadership that helps the cycle of "service by role-modelling" to continue (Hunter et al., 2013). Being likeable is part of what it means to serve others, to put others first. We make ourselves likeable to them so as not to put them off. We place their feelings ahead of our own. This is in a sense a kind of self-renunciation and demands a great deal of self-control. At the same time, it shows that servant leader is one who is truly there to help others and is not "in it" for himself. He shows through his actions that he has managed his own self to such a point that he has forgotten himself in his love for others and that he is truly there to show others the way forward. He is a guide because he has mastered the way through life and knows that we are all in a community together and that no community can survive if we do not devote ourselves to one another.
To reach that point, however, the servant leader…
Servant Leadership Defining Servant Leadership The principles of Servant Leadership were laid out by founder Robert Greenleaf in his important 1970 book, The Servant as Leader. Greenleaf, to his great credit, wanted to stress the point that leaders should first serve, and later lead through service. The leaders who have power but have not led, and use the power to push his or her own viewpoints and agenda, are not the kind
Conceptually, many agree as to what constitutes a servant leader, although many variations of these characteristics can be found in the literature. The terms "servant" and "leader" may seem contradictory, which is one of the greatest barriers to operationalizing the concept of the servant leader in modern organizations. The following will examine key literature regarding the ability to operationalize the concept of the servant leader. What Distinguishes the Servant Leader? The
Servant Leadership Even though servant leadership is in most cases associated with the Bible and Jesus Christ it is quite compatible with most religions and theories of philosophy. This paper is a comparative study using Greenleaf's characteristics of servant leadership which is based on Christianity against other philosophy and other leadership theories. "…The great leader is seen as servant first…"-Robert K. Greenleaf. This is a fragment from a sentence in an essay
Servant Leadership Applying Distributed Leadership and Servant Leadership In a Middle School Environment The effects of distributed and servant leadership within a middle school environment is best measured and made most relevant when student achievement scores, both in the short- and long-range, significantly exceed regional and national averages. Only by creating an agile, strong and highly effective distributed leadership plan for continual learning process and training improvement can any middle school hope to
Servant Leadership Robert Greenleaf developed the concept of servant leadership around the idea that leaders contribute to their organizations the most when they facilitate the people under their charge to be at their best. According to his organization's website, servant leadership is "servant first ... the natural feeling that one wants to serve" (Greenleaf.org, 2015). This juxtaposes the more traditional view of leadership that puts the leader first. In that more
Leadership philosophy denotes the values, beliefs, and principles that define or influence how a leader leads their followers. There are many different leadership philosophies, but one philosophy that particularly resonates with the author’s leadership philosophy is servant leadership. Servant leadership is about serving others and prioritising the needs of others. As demonstrated in this paper, servant leadership is a leadership philosophy that is applicable at the workplace as well as