Servant Leadership Behavior: Chapter 12

After reading chapter 12, and analyzing the different leadership styles I would have to say my leadership style is servant leadership, with a mix of task-oriented behaviors and people-oriented leader behaviors – depending on the situation. I’m a people person, and love helping people. I’m a motivator, and I like to try to make people’s jobs easier. As a leader I see myself as serving the needs of my team, to provide them the right tools for them to get their job done, and to help them actually enjoy their job. I’m all about helping people to figure out their goals, help them to achieve those goals, and help them through hard times. According to Organizational Behavior chapter 12, this is what a servant leadership style looks like; the texts …show more content…
I try to use the best of both worlds to help my team accomplishes the tasks and overall goals I, and our organization, sets from them. According to research outlined in chapter 12, both behavior types are beneficial to the organization, and I believe, from my experience, finding a balances between he two behavior types is golden for the team and the organization in the short term and long run (Organizational Behavior, 2014, p. 13, ch. 12). I was just recently promoted to team lead, and I’ve been told my motivating personalize, combined with my ability to keep people and projects on track, while also caring for the team is why my management think I would make a great leader. My current manager’s leadership style, I think, is just like mine. I think that’s why she likes me so much, and why I think she is such a good leader. Since I’m now moving to a new team, I’m not really sure what my new manager’s leadership style is – I’m trying to figure that out now. We for sure do not have the same personalizes, but I think, at least so far, we work well