What is Servant Leadership?

Servant Leadership is one of my favorite concepts. For me it’s a no brainer. So, let me explain why.

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Introduction to Leadership
Program 3: Managing and Leading Individuals
Course 11: Leadership
Section 2: Models of Leadership


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🎬 The Blake & Mouton Leadership Grid    • The Blake & Mouton Leadership Grid  
🎬 What is Transformational Leadership?    • What is Transformational Leadership?  
🎬 What is Visionary Leadership?    • What is Visionary Leadership?  
🎬 What is Charismatic Leadership?    • What is Charismatic Leadership?  
🎬 What is Authentic Leadership?    • What is Authentic Leadership?  


LESSON NOTES
The idea for Servant Leadership came from a corporate manager called Robert Greenleaf, in 1958. Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness https://geni.us/6Z7Z

Journey To The East, by Hermann Hesse - https://geni.us/MSS95vN

Greenleaf’s original conception of Servant Leadership was a moral one. We have a responsibility to help the people we lead to grow and develop. So, we must serve them.

I describe the twin roles of a servant leader as:
Rations
Providing their team with everything they need, to do their jobs.
Raincoat
Protecting them from anything that can interfere with doing their jobs.

Max De Pree stepped down as CEO in 1987, he published his best-selling book, ‘Leadership is an Art’ https://geni.us/AB06lge

How to Practice Servant Leadership
Servant Leadership is a behavioral model of leadership.
• Integrity
• Humility
• Communication
• Respect
• Restraint
• Coaching
• Trust

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1. Servant Leadership is a personal thing. What do you understand by the term? (2 MC CPD Points)
2. How important is this idea to you? And why? (2 MC CPD Points)
3. What more can you do to serve your team, acting as a raincoat? (2 MC CPD Points)
4. What more can you do to serve your team, providing them with rations? (2 MC CPD Points)

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RECOMMENDED READING
There are a vast number of Leadership books - perhaps more than on any other management-related topic. And there is also a huge range represented in different lists of the best. This no-doubt reflects the different contexts for leadership.

So, any recommended reading list of leadership books must be particularly subjective. I have chosen those that made me think, and which are of particular value to managerial leaders: not sportspeople, military leaders, or CEOs. In no particular order:

📖 Leaders Eat Last
https://geni.us/ZIawP8Y
📖 Start with Why
https://geni.us/D8ZSs
📖 Humble Leadership
https://geni.us/KMuCl
📖 The Leadership Challenge
https://geni.us/nyQ3
📖 The New Leaders
https://geni.us/5ziIw
📖 Shackleton's Way
https://geni.us/Oicsj
📖 Why should Anyone be Led by You
https://geni.us/xugbBk1
📖 The Habit of Excellence
https://geni.us/VIz8Z

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CHAPTER MARKERS
00:00 - Servant Leadership
00:15 - The ideas for Servant Leadership
01:13 - What is Servant Leadership? Robert Greenleaf
01:53 - The leader as a steward
02:32 - Behaviors of a Servant Leader
03:02 - The twin roles of Servant Leadership: Rations and Raincoat
04:14 - Max de Pre on Servant Leadership
05:08 - How to practice Servant Leadership
08:32 - Closing words… from Max de Pre: ‘The first responsibility of a leader’

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