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SERVANT LEADERSHIP: How to Become a Good Servant Leader
It's commonly thought that a servant is always at the lower end of any hierarchy
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This is the framework of servant leadership, one of the most
humbling of all leadership styles
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It is a completely selfless type of
leadership that focuses on improving people at their core and organizations in their entirety
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The primary difference between a servant leader and a transformational leader is that servant
leaders develop the people within the organization to great detail
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Transformational leaders have stronger focus on inspiring people within the organization to
work towards a common goal
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However, a servant leader would put much more time and care into developing each team
member
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It often leads to high employee engagement, highly motivated employees, and
a strong sense of ethics
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Good listening skills: a servant leader is only able to meet the needs of those being served if
those needs are understood
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This leader should understand verbal and non-verbal cues in order
to effectively discern the true needs that need to be met
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This quality enables the servant leader to
identify with and care for team members
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Focus on developing others: there is much more to a person than the work he or she is able
to produce
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They want their
team to be well mentally, spiritually, physically, and emotionally
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Emotional
intelligence also helps the leader to know what to push, at what time, and to which person
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This creates trust and
enables a servant leader to better persuade the team to achieve its true potential
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It enables servant
leaders to be able to conceptualize a plan for the way forward
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Listen and get informed: servant leaders learn from past mistakes so that they can improve
going forward
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This means that the leader gets a lot of
input from the organization which can serve as input for making informed decisions
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This leader is also concerned about the growth and improvement of the community
in which the organization is based
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The advantages of servant leadership
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People thrive in this setting
and are highly motivated to put in their best efforts
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Servant leaders
facilitate collaborative decision-making
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Furthermore, those on the front lines tend to understand some topics
better than upper-level management, which is why the leaders need to listen to their opinions
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Although ideas
are welcomed, those ideas that negatively impact the organization or its members are
rejected
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Disadvantages of servant leadership
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Team
members need to be engaged and the leader has to take the time to understand who they are
and what motivates them
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For instance, a military leader
would be
ineffective when using servant leadership
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When quick decisions
are of great importance, servant leadership is far from the best approach
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Losing sight of goals

The heavy emphasis on holistically developing each team member can result in the team
losing sight of the
organization's goals
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The team starts off with a huge
burst of motivation because they feel like they matter
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