01:713:202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Servant Leadership
6 Apr 2017
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A servant leader: focuses on the growth and well being of the communities in which they belong. Main function is to help people produce good results by modeling and encouraging behaviors and values that are both food for the individual and aligned goals of the group. Central idea of servant leader: one individual is committed to serve others: history of servant leader: Servant leadership was coined by robert k. greenleaf in 1970. Jesus 30-33 ad: ten principles of servant leadership, listening. Seek to listen respectfully to what is being said and is not what is being said: empathy. How people are vs. how they behave: healing, awareness. Often involved in examining themselves: persuasion. Seek to convince others than coerce them: conceptualization. Thinking beyond the day to day activities of the task: foresight. Respect for the past, understanding for the present, and what the future should be: stewardship, commitment to the growth of people.
