BUS 5411-Leading in Today’s Dynamic Context
Unit 7: Servant leadership
Discussion Forum
Introduction
Servant leadership is all about collaboration with coworkers to help people enhance performance, spending time with people to boost relationship, treating people positively, improving trust and credibility, creating a better environment and committing to serve people (Monroe, and Kevin, 2015). According to the Center for Servant Leadership, servant leadership is "a philosophy and set of practices that enriches people's lives, builds better organizations, and ultimately creates a more just and caring world."(What is Servant leadership?, 2018).
What do you think about the idea of the leader as a servant?
The choice of a leader is based on the
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As they contribute their information and perspectives, employees can then grow and learn. This relies on acquiring influence and authority as opposed to exercising control and destructive leadership strategies. Servant leadership motivates workers. But the boss doesn't just vanish (Gomez, 2022).
What elements of it do you find most compelling?
Promote variety of thought: When tasked with moving forward, servant leadership pushes everyone to think differently and creatively. A group's cooperation and idea sharing results in the final decision. Each team member has a certain amount of power, and they all share it in order to accomplish the same objective (Hayzlett, 2019).
Promote leadership in others: Servant leaders give more of themselves voluntarily than out of necessity. Open, honest, and yes, even exposed, servant leaders are. That could appear to be a weakness, but it can improve your leadership abilities and make you more likeable to people so that you are seen as a person and not simply the one who signs the checks (Hayzlett, 2019).
Think without self-interest: Although great leaders can affect change in many different ways, their ability to scale their businesses and leave a lasting legacy is ultimately a result of their lack of
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Honesty and openness encourage confidence, which has a direct impact on productivity at work (Hayzlett, 2019).
Is servant leadership something that will continue to grow or is it just another trendy idea that will go out of fashion?
I think that servant leadership will keep developing. As more and more members of the millennial generation enter the workforce, leaders must empower their teams and help employees find purpose in their work. The millennial generation is not interested in receiving instructions. They want to join in immediately. The leader's position has evolved from having all the answers to guiding the team to use and expand their existing knowledge in order to innovate and deliver exceptional results. One leader cannot have all the solutions in a turbulent, unpredictable difficult and perplexing circumstance (Nawaz, 2022).
Servant leaders use their distinguishing traits to create team trust and cultivate underutilized skills. They encourage teamwork and foster a friendly environment where people may collaborate and come up with answers. This tactic places a focus on encouraging people to contribute ideas and participate (Nawaz,
The basic principle of servant leadership is serving others and the community. The three principles of the servant-leadership are sharing the power, putting the needs of others first and helping people achieve their highest potential so that they may want to serve others. This creates an environment of trust, collaboration, teamwork and group improvement. Robert Greenleaf created the term, Servant Leader, and creating the idea of leading by serving with individuals and organizations. In one of his major essay’s, The Institution as Servant, Greenleaf (as cited in “What is Servant Leadership,” n.d.) expressed what was frequently called the “credo.”
In the beginning of EMS the most dominant style of leadership was based on a transactional approach,rewarding those individuals that follow procedures with positive incentives and reprimanding those that do not with reprimands. However,times are rapidly changing and the servant style of leadership is quickly becoming more acceptable and recognized throughout the industry. The field of EMS is unique, sometimes posing unconventional issues that must be addressed, in addition to those that occur on a daily basis. The servant style of leadership can become an effective and preferred method of leadership when applied in a balanced method. This style of leadership places the emphasis on nurturing the needs of the subordinate employees.
A servant leader is someone who devotes themselves to serving the needs of everyone. Servant leaders listen and put themselves in a place to do what's best. In our world, servant leaders are very important because they make us stronger by healing us. Servant leaders want to make the injured healed. They do whatever they can to make healing occur to anyone that needs it.
Running head: SERVANT LEADERSHIP ANALYSIS 1 Running head: SERVANT LEADERSHIP ANALYSIS 9 Servant Leadership Experience Analysis LDR-630 Servant Leadership Sylvia M. Bermudez February 28, 2018 Servant Leadership Experience Servant leaders understand the importance of building and supporting others and in helping nurture future servant leaders. Servant leaders “want to serve, to serve first,” (Greenleaf, 1970), they inspire and motivate followers through their actions and words and focus on the needs and desires of others, placing them over their own. The concept of servant leadership was first coined in the 1970s by Robert K. Greenleaf, in his essay, “Servant Leaders.” Greenleaf defines servant leadership, as “a philosophy and
In reading “Serve To Be Great’ written by Matt Tenney, I was introduced to a new perspective on leadership. Servant leadership is a philosophy and set of practices that enriches the lives of individuals, builds better organizations and ultimately creates a more just and caring world. Servant leadership is more a way of life than a management technique. Tenney believes that making your employee’s happiness the priority
Servant Leadership during Natural Disasters Servant leadership is a leader who displays ethical and caring behaviors. These leaders seek to enhance the growth of others while improving quality of life. The two main constructs of this leadership are ethical behavior and concern for subordinates. The characteristics embodied in this are stewardship, foresight, conceptualization, persuasion, building community, listening, empathy, awareness, commitment to growth of people and healing.
Servant leaders focus on commitment to serving others, and prioritizing the needs and well-being of their
In comparing the two, followership and servant leadership both underscore the significance of harmonious relationships within a team. Both styles recognize the value of engaged and motivated team members in achieving organizational success. However, the key distinction lies in their core objectives. Followership concentrates on alignment with the leader's vision and execution of tasks, while servant leadership centers on the personal and professional development of everyone under the leader's
Servant Leadership encompasses a leadership approach that involves placing the needs of the team above that of the leader. This approach encourages subordinate input in order to facilitate a sense of “buy-in” from their
Whereas a great servant leader has a goal in mind of trying to serve others, showing less regard for power, and actively guiding the followership toward success. While followers and leaders do have distinguished differences, leaders and followers, are more alike than we think. Correlation of a Leader and Followership Sergeant Major Julio Linaras says it best, “Followership is the other side of leadership. If leadership is essential for performance and mission accomplishment, followership must have something to do with it.” Extraordinary leaders and followers must exhibit critical thinking, commitment, and versatility.
The definition of Servant Leadership as defined by Robert K. Greenleaf states that this is a person who is first a servant, and then a leader. He or she starts from the bottom and works their way up the ladder. These people are often focused other people’s priorities, they often share power with all and they are helping their followers or subordinates develop and mature so they can perform at their best. Jim Lovell is a great example of a servant leader.
Servant Leadership has not been a customary research topic in the small businesses arena. However, there has been research showing that servant leadership is an effective style for creating results. In fact, according to Van Winkle, Allen, DeVore, & Winston (2014) servant leadership coupled with a learning, purpose-driven, and inclusive environment, has created such outcomes that has positively affected sales, professionalism, and employee
Leaders can advance their team’s leadership abilities by empowering them to think critically about situations and being open to new ideas. Allowing followers to act on command intent and not direct instructions allows them to advance as critical thinkers since they have to develop a strategy for completing the goal. When leaders allow their followers to create strategy, the leader trusts them, and because of this, the followers feel more supported by the leader. Furthermore, followers who think critically often develop new ideas on how to improve their environment and the mission. When leaders listen to, consider, and implement these ideas, then the environment advances through innovation and the team feels more supported by the leader.
Servant leadership believes one should provide priority to others interest. Leaders should server others to meet their desires, needs and aspiration. Leaders should service and develop their employees (Nahavandi, 2015) leaders do not encourage leaders to go over and beyond to meet the need of the individual problems. Servant leadership listens, persuades, and give empathy during times of crisis. Authentic leaders adapt their style to the situation.
Over the last few weeks, leadership class has succeeded in getting me to think deeply about my life, who I really am and who I hope to be. This is good because it helps me put proper measures in place that will help me accomplish those goals. A servant leader, as we have discussed in class is one who is servant-first. His main aim is to serve his people and do what is best for the people around him, whether he is in a leadership position or not.