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Servant Leadership
Mick Moreton
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Question!
► Is everyone familiar with Servant Leadership – yes/no
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This is my view of Servant
Leadership and how we at
Sapartners support that thinking
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Servant Leadership
The world is in desperate need of a different leadership role model.
We all have seen the negative impact of self- serving leaders in every sector of
our society. Why is that?
Because these leaders have been conditioned to think of leadership only in
terms of power and control.
We think there is a better choice: to lead at a higher
level. When people lead at a higher level, they make the
world a better place because in addition to results and
relationships, their goals are focused on the greater
good. This requires a special kind of leader: a servant
leader.
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Description
Servant Leadership seems to be an inconsistent approach to leadership that runs counter to common sense.
Our everyday images of leadership do not coincide with leaders being servant.
Although Servant Leadership seems contradictory and challenges our traditional beliefs about leadership.
It is an approach that offers a unique perspective
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What is a Servant Leader role
1. Serve and support the future
2. Engage and develop others
3. Reflect continuously
4. Value results and relationships
5. Embody values
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What kind of leaders we see
► Title leader (leader first)
• Follow me, me, me, me
• Can lose touch with people
• More likely to fail in relationships
• Blames others for failure
• Low Emotional intelligence
► Servant Leader (wants to serve)
• Makes life better
• Sets direction
• Mutual agreement on SMART goals (M = motivated)
• Creates an environment for success
• Generates conditions for people to do their best work
Specific - Motivational - Agreeable - Relevant - Trackable
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Servant Leadership Defined &
where did it come from
Greenleaf (1970)
“Servant Leadership
begins with the natural feeling that one wants
to serve, to serve first.
Then conscious choice brings
one to aspire to lead”
Hale & Fields (2007)
“Servant Leaders place the good of followers
over their own self-interests
and emphasize follower
development”
Spears (2010)
“Everyone can learn to be a
servant leadership”
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Historical Basis Of Servant Leadership
► Robert K. Greenleaf’s personality and writings have
significantly influenced how servant leadership has
developed on the practical and theoretical level.
► He founded the Center for Applied Ethics in 1964, now the Greenleaf
Center For Servant Leadership, which provides a clearing-house and
focal point for research and writing on servant leadership.
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WHY - Active, Sustainable Leadership
How I’m developedLCS, CPD, Masterclass
How I manage timeEffective time management
How I speak and listenSoundwave
How I thinkColourworks, EI, TI, MB
How I deliverOrganisational processes and
standards
What I deliverCustomer results, KPI
How I deliverImprovement system and leader
standard work
What I deliverCulture and behaviours, KBI
How I lead changeKotter, KR, Silos
How I adapt my styleSituational leadership
How I train, coach and
facilitateH+M, Kata, Oscar, GROW, PREPARE
How I motivateSetting expectations, roles, RACI
and recognition
Why…..?Active, Sustainable Leadership
Leadership setting direction
Servant adapting
your style to make
others great
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Historical Basis Of Servant Leadership
► It tells the story of a group of travelers on a mythical journey
who are accompanied by a servant who does menial chores
for the travelers but also sustains them with his spirits and
song. The servant’s presence has an extraordinary impact on
the group. When the servant becomes lost and disappears
from the group, the travelers fall into disarray and abandon
the journey.
► Without the servant, they are unable to carry on.
► It was the servant who was ultimately leading the group.
► Emerging as a leader through his selfless care of the
travelers.
Novel The Journey To The
East
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InteractionSee more at:
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The Elements of Trust
A foundation for servant leadership to work
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My story
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The Soundwave Model has 9 Voices or
Verbal Strategies
Critique
Correct
Challenge
Inquire
Probe Diagnose
Advocate
Advise
Articulate
ASK
TELL SUGGEST
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A great Servant Leader
A great servant leader has 2 distinct attributes
The SLII® ModelLearn a new language of
leadership—from the self
leader’s perspectiveMindsetSkillset
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A servant leader ways
1. All good performance starts with a clear goal!
2. Catch people doing something good!
3. If performance drops, re-direct – how can I help you get
back on track
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10 Characteristics Of A Servant Leader
LISTENING
EMPHATY
HEALING
AWARENESS
PERSUASION
CONCEPTUALIZATION
FORESIGHT
STEWARDSHIP
COMMITMENT TO THE GROWTH OF PEOPLE
BUILDING COMMUNITY
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Building A Theory About Servant
Leadership
In this from it was widely accepted as a leadership approach,
rather than a theory, that has strong exploratory and practical
value.
Praise For Servant
Leadership
Bennis (2002)
Blanchard & Hodges
(2003)
Covey (2002)
DePree(2002)
Senge (2002)
Wheatly (2002)
“Servant Leadership was adopted as a guiding
philosophy in many well-know organization such as “The Toro Company, Herman Miller, Synovus Financial Corpuration, Service Master, Men’s Wearhouse, Southwest
Airlines, and TDIndustries (Spears, 2002)”.
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How Does Servant Leadership Work?
► Servant Leadership works best when leaders are selfless
and have a strong motivation and deep-seated interest in
helping others.
► In addition, for successful servant leadership to occur, it is
important that followers are open and receptive to servant
leaders who want to empower them and help them grow.
► Servant Leadership results in community and social change.
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Strengths
► Servant leadership provides a counterintuitive and provocative approach
to the use of influence, or power, in leadership. Nearly all other theories
of leadership treat influence as a positive factor in the leadership
process, but servant leadership does just the opposite.
► Rather than imply that servant leadership is a panacea, research on
servant leadership has shown there are conditions under which servant
leadership is not a preferred kind of leadership.
► Servant leadership is built on the leaders not automatically thinking that
they have the answer
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Criticisms
► First, servant leadership is prone to be perceived as fanciful
or whimsical. Servant leadership is not fully explicated in the
approach.
► Second, to date, researchers have been unable to reach
consensus on a common definition or theoretical framework
for servant leadership.
► Third, a large segment of the writing on servant leadership
has a prescriptive overtone that implies that good leaders
"put other first“
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Case Studies
“Everyone Loves Mrs. Noble”
► Sharon Nobel is in charge of the main office at Essex High School, a
position she has held for nearly 30 years.
► When people describe Sharon, they say that she is wise and seems to
know just about everything there is to know about the school. She
understands the core curriculum, testing, dress code, skip policy, after
school program, helicopter parents, and much more. If student want to
have a bake sale, she tells them the best way to do it. If they want to take
Advanced Placement courses, she tells them which ones to take. The list
of what she knows is endless.
► Even though it isn’t technically in her job description, Mrs. Nobel excels
at helping juniors prepare application for college.
► She spends hours pushing, nudging, and convincing students to stay on
task and get their applications submitted. She doesn’t care if students
go to top end private schools, state schools, or community colleges, but
she does care if they do well.
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Closing Statement
► “Servant Leadership provides a philosophy and a set of
behaviors that individuals in the organizational setting can
learn and develop.
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Takeaways
► Building Trust is an essential ingredient to Leadership
► A well practiced Self Leader makes a great Servant
► The Situational Leadership model provides a great skill set
for Servant Leaders