Servant Leadership
Introduction
There are many opinions and strategies about how to effectively lead people. Throughout the ages it has been a problem that leaders and rules have tried to solve. How can a person bring together a group of people to effectively accomplish a task together? As time has marched on, different opinions have risen and declined in popularity. In the book, The Servant, James Hunter explores the concept of Servant Leadership. Throughout the narrative, lives of people from various walks in life are analyzed with the lens of servant leadership. The reader can look into the life of a Healthcare worker, a soldier, a member of corporate America and an educator.
Characteristics of Servant Leadership
Active Listening
One of the most important aspects of servant leadership is active listening. According to the novel, The Servant by James Hunter (2012), active listening is a difficult discipline that requires effort and care (p.105). Due to constant internal conversation and the distractions that will occur naturally on a nursing unit, call bells, patient requests and …show more content…
Employees will compete for it, detest it and submit to it all throughout their time at a company. In most leadership models, the leader uses power to achieve a goal. The Servant leadership model realizes that this is an ineffective model over a long period of time (Hunter, 2012, pg. 32). Leaders who are trying to develop culture need to understand that authority is far more important than leadership when it comes to completing this task. The greatest difference between the two is that authority is not something that can be given to someone else or handed off. Those being led must give it to the leader. Consequently the leader of a group may not carry much authority, only power. On the reverse side, a member may gain authority without the power to back it up. But when the two are mixed there is the possibility of great
Introduction
There are many opinions and strategies about how to effectively lead people. Throughout the ages it has been a problem that leaders and rules have tried to solve. How can a person bring together a group of people to effectively accomplish a task together? As time has marched on, different opinions have risen and declined in popularity. In the book, The Servant, James Hunter explores the concept of Servant Leadership. Throughout the narrative, lives of people from various walks in life are analyzed with the lens of servant leadership. The reader can look into the life of a Healthcare worker, a soldier, a member of corporate America and an educator.
Characteristics of Servant Leadership
Active Listening
One of the most important aspects of servant leadership is active listening. According to the novel, The Servant by James Hunter (2012), active listening is a difficult discipline that requires effort and care (p.105). Due to constant internal conversation and the distractions that will occur naturally on a nursing unit, call bells, patient requests and …show more content…
Employees will compete for it, detest it and submit to it all throughout their time at a company. In most leadership models, the leader uses power to achieve a goal. The Servant leadership model realizes that this is an ineffective model over a long period of time (Hunter, 2012, pg. 32). Leaders who are trying to develop culture need to understand that authority is far more important than leadership when it comes to completing this task. The greatest difference between the two is that authority is not something that can be given to someone else or handed off. Those being led must give it to the leader. Consequently the leader of a group may not carry much authority, only power. On the reverse side, a member may gain authority without the power to back it up. But when the two are mixed there is the possibility of great