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,