COLLEGE OF LAW, GOVERNMENT AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

GMGM5063LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT COURSE

Title: Servant Leadership

Mohamed Dahir Hassan

SERVANT LEADERSHIP

Servant-Leadership is a practical altruistic philosophy which supports people who choose to serve first, and then lead as a way of expanding service to individuals and institutions. Servant-leaders may or may not hold formal leadership positions. Servant-leadership encourages collaboration, trust, foresight, listening, and the ethical use of power and empowerment. Servant leadership begins with a vision. They see the big picture. They identify complex problems early and are able to implement workable solutions in a timely style by planning ahead. Servant leaders are optimists with empathy for people. They lead through service.

The servant-leader is servant first.

The objective of serving others encapsulates every facet of society from establishing endearing homes and healthy communities to building prosperous businesses and worthwhile public entities.

From initial project-planning stages to final implementation, servant leaders think about how they can best serve others.

WHAT KIND OF LEADER SERVES OTHERS

Simply: Servant leaders put others first to serve. “It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, first” Robert Greenleaf. Constructive: Servant leaders are constructive, self-actualizing, transformative types because they are visionaries.Persistent: Servant leaders typically have overcome substantial obstacles in their own lives often at a young age. Consequently, they possess the determination to meet demanding challenges throughout their careers.Motivating: Servant leaders surround themselves with good people and then motivate them to achieve greatness. Because servant leaders often have extremely ambitious plans, they are good delegators.

Servant leaders exhibit intuition that enables them to identify society’s ills and begin implementing solutions to problems long before most people even recognize the perils lurking below the surface.

When tackling society’s most enormous challenges such as poverty, crime, mental health, disease and public education well-intentioned leaders have a tendency to launch ambitious programs and build large institutions designed to hide rather than help the people most in need of attention or reform. Productive leaders solve problems; they don’t hide them.

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SERVANT LEADERSHIP THEORY

SERVANT LEADERSHIP TRAITS

Each leadership style has unique attributes. For servant leadership, these elements include the capability to transform an organization. This entails inspiring stakeholders, empowering employees, establishing foundational changes, and motivating people throughout an organization to want to be of service to others.

“Servant-leaders differ from other persons of good will,” Greenleaf concluded, “because they act on what they believe.” He identified vision, influence, credibility, trust and service as important leadership qualities, along with the following characteristics, which are critical to the success of a servant leader.

CHARACTERISTIC

10 CHARACTERISTICS OF SERVANT LEADERS

Listening: Servant leader have the ability to listening intently to their inner thoughts and feelings and interpret them

Listen intently to others

Listen receptively to what is being said (and not said)

in touch with one’s own inner voice

seeking to understand what one’s body, spirit, and mind are communicating

Empathy

Identifies with the concerns of others so as to better understand and lead

People need to be accepted and recognized for their special unique spirits

Empathy: servant leaders strive to understand other people’s intention and perspectives. The most successful servant-leaders are those who have become skilled empathetic listeners.

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Commitment to Growth of the people Believe that people have an intrinsic value beyond their tangible contributions as workers

The servant leaders recognize the tremendous responsibility to do everything within his or her power to nurture the personal professional and spiritual growth of employees

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Building Community

Building community: Servant-leadership suggests that true community can be created among those who work in businesses and other institutions. Servant leaders encourage people to take responsibility for their work, and remind them how and what they do contributes to the success and overall objectives of the organization.

Persuasion: An authoritative leader may simply tell employees what to do, but a servant leader has the ability to explain why things need to be done and convince their employees to do them. They do not force others to do things; rather they give compelling reasons for their requests.

Persuasion

seek to convince and not pull rank - to go ahead and show the way

Convince other rather than coerce compliance

Persuasion rather than personal authority

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FORESIGHT

Foresight: Foresight is a characteristic that enables the servant-leader to understand the lessons from the past, the realities of the present, and the likely consequence of a decision for the future.

Awarenessof self and situation

Awareness: Servant leaders should view most situations from a more integrated, holistic position." Robert Greenleaf said awareness "is a disturber and an awakener.

Able leaders are usually sharply awake and reasonably disturbed. They are not seekers after solace. They have their own serenity.

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ConceptualizationConceptualization: The ability to look at a problem or an organization from a conceptualizing perspective means that one must think beyond day-to-day realities.

Ability to look at a problem from a conceptualizing perspective think beyond day to day realities

Nurture abilities to “dream great dreams”

Stewardship: a commitment to serving the needs of others. Stewardship is about taking responsibility for the actions and performance of your team, and being accountable for the role team members play in your organization.

Stewardship

Holding something in trust for another

commitment to serving the needs of others

HEALING

take opportunities to restore others to wholeness - to show caring

Healing: This characteristic relates to the emotional health and "wholeness" of people, and involves supporting them both physically and mentally.

Here are four servant leaders who are frequently viewed in terms of how they transformed others, including organizations and entire nations. Through their accomplishments, they empowered others and created lasting change.Nelson Mandela: “I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.”Mahatma Gandhi: “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”Mother Teresa: “The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.”Max De Pree: “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you.”

SERVANT LEADERSHIP QUOTES FROM FAMOUS SERVAN LEADERS

Servant leadership liberating people enabling them to reach their full potential. Helping others to reach their own greatness by helping the organization to succeed. Servant leaders always prompts the bottom up view of the leadership. Considering for development of the individual first. Provide autonomy to the individual develop their own talents and abilities.

conclusion