Similarities And Differences Between Authentic And Servant Leadership In A Business

When thinking about leadership in a business there are many different forms of leadership that you can see in your employees. I will be focusing on two types of leaderships and how as a senior manager you would model these leaderships and find these models in future leaders. The two models of leadership that I will define are authentic and servant leadership. Then I will focus on similarities and differences between authentic and servant leadership. I will describe as a manager how I would demonstrate these two models to my employees and other managers. The last thing I will discuss is how managers can see these types of leadership in future leaders of companies. When managers know more about these different kinds of leadership than managers …show more content…
This leadership is very people oriented, meaning that someone who has this leadership skill will focus on others needs over their own. This leadership makes me think of being selfless and how when someone is completely selfless they care about others before themselves. I don’t know if I’ve ever found a manager that has a servant leader still but I know that in the world there are leaders that have this leadership. This leadership is strong in many different aspects and will help managers better understand their employees. An example is, “Perhaps the easiest example is Jesus Christ as described in the four gospels of the Christian religion” (Grimsley). Jesus is a great example because he cared so much for everyone that he helped even the people he knew would turn on him. He put everyone’s needs above himself and he overall built a community with all of the people that followed him. In a business setting Jesus would have been the boss and building the great connections and the community setting that he put together is exactly what a servant leader needs to contain.
Authentic and servant leadership has many things that are similar about them but very little about what is different. Some of the similarities between the two are both models of leaders are self-aware, empathetic to others, and serve others. Some examples of similarities …show more content…
I want to make other people happy and make sure that they can accomplish anything by giving them the encouragement that they need. Also I’m a person that will drop anything to help or server people that need the help. Sometimes I’m worried if by being this way that it isn’t helping people like I want to but hurting them too. The reason I think that is because some people need to learn on their own and not having someone tell them every step to take. I’ve also experienced that people have taken advantage of me because I was too willing to help them whenever they needed help. I can see some traits that I would carry with me if I was a manager from authentic leadership is that I draw from my inspiration and that’s where my passion comes from. When people have the same passion as me I feel drawn to them and love talking to people about my inspirations. My biggest inspiration is to one day own my own preschool and daycare because I’m very passionate about teaching and helping the younger generation. Being that this is the authentic side of me sometimes I feel blinded about other options that I might have in front of me. But as a manager I would try to have both leadership traits to better connect with my employees and also make sure that they stay on