Collective Knowledge about Servant Leadership

Your Group's Assignment:  When you have completed your reading and web search, collectively respond to the questions below in preparation to "teach" your concept with your original "home group."

Using This Wiki

1. Select a recorder.
2. Recorder will enter in the space below the group's collective knowledge in each category. While the recorder is entering text into the wiki, group members stand behind, providing input!
3. To add text, click on the "Edit Page" button at the top left. You will be prompted to enter a password. The password is the name of our program. You will also be asked to enter your name so we can know who edited the page.
4. After you have logged in with a password and your first name, insert your cursor where you want to begin typing, and begin!
5. Don't forget to click the "Save" button at the bottom of your screen occasionally!

NOTE: Feel free to delete these instructions once you have read them!

Define the Theory

Leadership stems from a natural feeling of wanting to serve others. Primary motivation is a deep desire to help others. Putting the well-being of followers before the goals. Seeing the followers as the end in themselves rather than a means to the organizational purpose. Servant Leaders derive satisfaction from making a difference, developing others, and building shared vision. Moral initiative.

What are the outcomes?  When might this leadership style be used?

Inspire others to rise above current circumstances. Empower others to make a difference. The focus moves away from self-serving interests.

This leadership style might be used to meet school improvement goals by inspiring staff to stretch beyond their own personal goals and to strive to help the goals of the ultimate stakeholders, the students.  Inspire staff to give up personal agenda in order to improve student outcomes. Getting into the "trenches" to do what it takes to serve the whole organization's goal. Inspire and model selflessness. People become more autonomous as a result. Leadership benefits those who are least advantaged.

What are the critical skills an administrator would need to be able to demonstrate this leadership style?

Supportive work enviornment. Support leaders taking risks. Build trusting relationships. Patience, courage, integrity, trust, and putting a focus on meeting the needs of those who are lead.

Facilitate personal growth and build a sense of community.