Servant Leadership

 Lead to Success

“We are beginning to see that traditional autocratic and hierarchical modes of leadership are slowly yielding to a newer mode-one that attempts to simultaneously enhance the personal growth of workers and improve the quality and caring of our many institutions through a combination of team work and community, personal involvement in decision making, and ethical and caring behavior. This emerging approach to leadership and service is called Servant – Leadership.”

Leadership seems to be the marshaling of skills possessed by a majority but used by minority. But it’s something that can be learned by anyone, taught to everyone denied to no one.

Effective leaders master four major \management skills through their training and experience.

1.       Planning involves selecting a source of action and specifying how the action will be implemented.

2.       Organizing involves creatively structuring the company’s workforce to maximum performance.

3.       Directing and motivating involves mobilizing people to carry out plans and run routine operations.

4.       Controlling involves ensuring that the plan is actually carried out and is appropriately modified as circumstances change.

Successful executive leaders communicate their vision so clearly and persuasively that others adopt that vision as part of their own. The more others follow you, the greater you influence and the stronger your leadership. Admirable leadership boils down to effectively influencing others to attain a worthy goal.

A great leader has

·         Has a worthy vision for the company

·         Formulates and implements excellent strategies

·         Brings out the best in his or her workforce

·         Gets things done effectively

·         Seizes opportunities

·         Create a sustainable competitive advantage

·         Launces new businesses

·         Builds organization

·         Masters important details that could make or break the company

·         Permeates every action with consistently high ethical standards.

Knowing that the leader’s most noble work role is to serve other, the most effective executives promotes fairness, compassion, listening, teamwork, trust, integrity, and the proper use of power and empowerment.

Servant leadership is very practical philosophy that teachers that greatness is a secondary by-product of supporting other people’s needs first. Great leaders create “win-win” conditions in their companies, their stockholders, customers, employees and suppliers.