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Tags: self improvement, leadership, servant leadership
 The definition of Servant Leadership-- Robert Greenleaf is known as the father of servant leadership. He described servant leadership in his own manner: “It starts with the natural feeling that an individual wants to serve…to serve primarily. The conscious option brings one to aim to lead. The most difficult but the best test to oversee and control is: do those served grow and develop as individuals, do they grow whilst being served become freer, wiser, healthier, more independent and self-ruling, more likely to become servants themselves? The whole difference lies itself in the care taken by the servant-first policy in ensuring that other individual’s primary and loftiest needs or priorities are being served.” The concept of Servant Leadership highlights or stresses on empathy, collaboration, and the moral and principled use of power.
The whole purpose is in developing the growth of people in the entire organization and boost personal involvement and participation and build teamwork. In essence, the person is a servant first and foremost, making the solid decision to lead in order to better serve other people, and not to increase their own authority and power.
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And Where Can We Apply This-- whether or not one has direct responsibility or accountability for supervising or overseeing others, one absolutely influences other individuals in the whole organization. We could all apply and make use of the ideas and logic of servant leadership. Where do you want to incorporate this idea of serving other people? Where could you make more space for other individuals to work a certain process or course of action? It does not have to be a big thing.
(to use a very technical term) Actually, even the most subtle of discussions or gestures could have profound impacts or effects on others. And How Can This Be Relevant? You could view from this that it is a “frame of mind” or point of view. I remember the classic example of a recent conversation a friend of mine with his client.
They were talking about at some of the things my friend has done to successfully create a shift into a bigger function that he has assumed on the company. And part of it involves my friend’s creating and defining a new role in the business and recruiting more employees. My friend said to his client, “Dan, I try to build in more time for my staff to finish the tasks and projects since most of them are new.
I’d like to provide them the space to learn and make some tolerable mistakes. Therefore, there are times that tasks take much longer, yet I know that it will all work out fine and obtain momentum in time. When he retold me about this enlightening conversation they had, I was so impressed with my friend that he made this conscious effort and decision it was truly the best thing to do to let people to grow and it will also allow him to function or perform at a higher level as his people enhance their own skills and capacities.
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The author of this article, Amy Twain, is a Self Improvement Coach who has been coaching and guiding clients for many years. Learn how to be a HAPPY WORKER and Be Successful in life.
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