Collective Knowledge about Servant Leadership

 

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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

 

 The theory of servant leadership is the desire to help others built on trust to achieve goals and results that serve a total community.

 

 

 

 

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

 

Servant Leadership style that is useful most of the time.  There might be a break away when there are times of crisis or in areas needed for direct decision making.  This style may be used when transitions in leadership are made, for sustaining a school culture, it is the best style for building relationships, it helps to build teacher leaders, it is a style that also builds trust.  Servant leaders must let egos go for the good of all.  Empowered teachers will go to great lengths to empower students.  This will make for better student outcomes and less discipline referrals in a building.  Teachers will want to go above and beyond for a servant leader.

 

 

 

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

 

patience

trusting realtionships

listener

needs of others above self

open mindedness

knowledgeable

nurturing

lack of ego

share power

confident

moral leadership

awareness

foresight

commitment to growth

knowledge of people that they work with

empathetic

focused on results