{"id":335,"date":"2018-10-21T09:50:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T16:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/?p=335"},"modified":"2018-10-21T09:50:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T16:50:23","slug":"blog-post-two-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/2018\/10\/21\/blog-post-two-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike the Roman-era power\/leader-member exchange style of leadership as expressed through the Jewish Pharisees and Sadducees of His time, Jesus Christ flawlessly demonstrated how to capture and appeal to, hearts and minds when one looks for \u201cwhat is right with people rather than emphasizing what is wrong with them\u201d (Searle &amp; Barbuto Jr., 2011, p. 107). By no means did this type of leadership begin with Jesus, but in the context of the most typical leadership approaches of His day, He might as well have started it. In his book <em>Leadership<\/em>, Peter G. Northouse (2016) states that servant leadership is a paradoxical approach that runs counter to common sense (p. 225); however, when Jesus creates clarity from the complex through parables, heals emotionally, behaves ethically, empowers, puts followers first and creates value for the community (and the world) at large, servant leadership is less paradoxical than one would think.<\/p>\n<p>As One who clearly exemplifies this component of servant leadership, Jesus had an advantage in terms of being fully aware; however, other leaders He was training may not have had a reservoir of experience to draw upon with understanding human behaviour. Similar to emotional intelligence\u2019s (EI) component of self-awareness as \u201chaving a deep understanding on one\u2019s emotions, strengths, weaknesses, needs and drives\u201d (Goleman, 1998, p. 84), a servant-leaders awareness is a characteristic which develops from knowing oneself and how they impact the world around them. In slight contrast to this very ethereal-like emotional connection to oneself as a means to serve others, a psychodynamic approach aligns with clinical mechanisms to understand behaviour of both leader and follower striving to \u201ccreate reflective practitioners\u201d (Northouse, 2016, p. 307). Although the psychodynamic approach digs deep into \u201cunderlying irrational processes and dynamics governing human behaviour\u201d (Northouse, 2016, p. 324), in my opinion, the awareness of a servant leader is generally less rigid, more holistic, and like Jesus, extends a consistency in model to all followers, not just a select group.<\/p>\n<p>Matt<\/p>\n<p>Goleman, D. (1998, November). What makes a leader? <em>Harvard Business Review, 76<\/em>(6), 82-90.<\/p>\n<p>Northouse, P. G. (2016). <em>Leadership: theory and practice<\/em> (Seventh ed.). Los Angeles: Sage Publications.<\/p>\n<p>Searle, T. P., &amp; Barbuto Jr., J. E. (2011). Servant leadership, hope, and organizational virtuousness: A framework exploring positive micro and macro behaviors and performance impact. <em>Journal of Leadership &amp; Organizational Studies, 18<\/em>(1), 107-117.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike the Roman-era power\/leader-member exchange style of leadership as expressed through the Jewish Pharisees and Sadducees of His time, Jesus Christ flawlessly demonstrated how to capture and appeal to, hearts and minds when one looks for \u201cwhat is right with people rather than emphasizing what is wrong with them\u201d (Searle &amp; Barbuto Jr., 2011, p. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/2018\/10\/21\/blog-post-two-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blog Post Two&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,58],"tags":[47,56,59],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-unit-4","tag-ldrs500","tag-learning-activity-2","tag-unit-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/fourwinds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}