The challenge of leadership is often seen in the coordination of a group project to achieve a certain goal or objective. Some of the actions a team leader should take to ensure success of a project are;

1. Idea formation. It is the team leader’s role to guide the process of creating ideas of a specific project. This is in tandem with the servant leader’s characteristic of conceptualization. Servant leaders seek to nurture their abilities to dream great dreams. The ability to look at a problem or an organization from a conceptualizing perspective means that one must think beyond day-to-day realities. The leader who wishes to also be a servant leader must stretch his or her thinking to encompass broader-based conceptual thinking. (Spears, Larry C. 2010). The leader needs to gather their best minds for a certain project and form a series of brain storming sessions where ideas are conceptualized and conceived. Ideas that will best suit the carrying out a project from its infancy to it fruition.
2. Idea selection. This process can be tough especially if as a leader, you have opened up to a team to give as much input to an idea as possible. In order to sift through all the given ideas and select the best, it takes a leader to listen keenly. The servant leader seeks to identify the will of a group and helps to clarify that will. He or she listens receptively to what is being said and unsaid. Listening also encompasses hearing one’s own inner voice. (Spears, Larry C. 2010). Listening with the heart and not just the mind in order to carefully be able to rightfully sieve through the ideas in order to have the best ideas but also acknowledge the other team members inputs even though their ideas may not be selected.
3. Idea execution. Having selected the best ideas on how to move a project forward, it is then the team leader’s role to have the idea implemented or executed. Execution requires the leader to have some indelible characteristics if the project is to realize its completion. One if foresight. The leader has to have the ability to look ahead and anticipate what is expected regarding the entire project, start to finish. Persuasion. Execution of a project takes a team. The team leader needs to convince rather than coerce compliance from the team (Spears, Larry C. 2010), to see the project to its end.