Servant Leadership In Accosting To Greenleaf, By Robin Wilson
In this reading, Robin Wilson explains servant leadership as if compares and contrasts to others types of leadership. To begin, “servant leadership [means] that great leaders must first serve others and this simple fact is central to his or her greatness” (Wilson, 1998, p. 6). Specifically, accosting to Greenleaf, ‘“[servant leadership] begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve first, then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. The difference manifests itself in the care taken by the servant-first to make sure that other people's priority needs are being served. The best test is: Do those served grow as persons; do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become
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Awareness - The servant leader, by fostering self awareness and general awareness, can aid in the understanding issues of ethics and values. 5. Persuasion - Servant leaders usually rely on persuasion rather than positional authority and convince rather than coerce. This characteristic highlights the differences between a traditional authoritarian leadership model and servant leadership. 6. Conceptualization - Instead of the traditional manager approach and concern toward short-term operational goals, a servant leader goes beyond the day-to-day realities and dreams great dreams. 7. Foresight - This is probably the only servant leader characteristic with which one may be born, while all others can be consciously developed-foresight enables servant leaders to learn from the past, accept the present, and be in tune with the future. 8. Stewardship - CEOs, staff, directors, and trustees of all institutions play significant roles in holding their institutions in trust for the greater good and benefit of society. 9. Commitment to the growth of people - Instead of people being valued only at their level of external or tangible contributions, servant leaders are committed to "seeing" the intrinsic value-personal, professional, and spiritual -of each
Awareness - The servant leader, by fostering self awareness and general awareness, can aid in the understanding issues of ethics and values. 5. Persuasion - Servant leaders usually rely on persuasion rather than positional authority and convince rather than coerce. This characteristic highlights the differences between a traditional authoritarian leadership model and servant leadership. 6. Conceptualization - Instead of the traditional manager approach and concern toward short-term operational goals, a servant leader goes beyond the day-to-day realities and dreams great dreams. 7. Foresight - This is probably the only servant leader characteristic with which one may be born, while all others can be consciously developed-foresight enables servant leaders to learn from the past, accept the present, and be in tune with the future. 8. Stewardship - CEOs, staff, directors, and trustees of all institutions play significant roles in holding their institutions in trust for the greater good and benefit of society. 9. Commitment to the growth of people - Instead of people being valued only at their level of external or tangible contributions, servant leaders are committed to "seeing" the intrinsic value-personal, professional, and spiritual -of each