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Week6LectureSlides.pptxWeek 6: Being a Servant
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What is Servant Leadership?
It begins with the natural feeling one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first.… The difference manifests itself in the care taken by the servant-first to make sure that other people’s highest priority needs are being served. The best test, and difficult to administer, is this: Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? And, what is the effect on the least privileged in society? Will they benefit or at least not be further deprived?
(Greenleaf, 1977, p. 27)
SL Characteristics (Spears, 1998)
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Servant-led Organisations (Laub, 1999)
What characterises a servant-led organisation?
Values people—believing, serving, and nonjudgmentally listening
Develops people—provides learning, growth, encouragement & affirmation;
Builds community—develops strong collaborative and personal relationships;
Displays authenticity—open, accountable, and willing to learn
Provides leadership—foreseeing the future, taking initiative, and establishing goals; and
Shares leadership—facilitating and sharing power.
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Benefits of SL (Parris & Peachey, 2013)
