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Servant leadership in its basic form is the principle of how can I serve you?\u00a0 The components of servant leadership have always aligned with the type of leader I strive to be.\u00a0 Listening, empathy and healing are three characteristics\u00a0of servant leadership which I find challenging to consistently realize in my own practice.<\/p>\n
Listening takes practice. I always thought I was a good listener. But listening takes more than just listening to the words that are coming out of someone’s mouth.\u00a0 To actively listen calls us to be engaged in what the other person is saying, be open to what they are saying and pay attention to non-verbal clues. I try my best to listen to my staff, but I work in a very busy industry where things are constantly shaking. I feel that my work brain moves a million miles per minute and it does interfere with my listening. I know listening is a learned skill and one I hope to be better at in future. I believe we can miss out on a wealth of information by being closed minded and not actively listening to what someone is telling us.<\/p>\n
Empathy and putting myself in someone else’s shoes comes naturally to me. Although sometimes it can be dangerous as I am quite sensitive and can take on others feelings as my own without realizing it. When leading my team I know that I compartmentalize my empathetic tendencies\u00a0when not warranted by the situation. The problem with this is I can’t always switch hats when the moment calls for empathy. I do this without realizing it until much later.<\/p>\n
Healing focuses on the well being of the followers, often helping them solve a personal problem. It is the belief of some (Greenleaf,<\/em> Northouse, 2018.p.229) that helping the followers heal in turn heals the leader.\u00a0 Healing is to make the person well again, taking a holistic\u00a0approach. I know this is not one of my strengths. It is difficult for me to recognize when one of my team is struggling with their personal life. Other than seeing their performance suffer and demeanor change I don’t know what other signs I would notice. In practice, I\u00a0 think this would be one of my most challenging characteristics\u00a0to realize.<\/p>\n The thing I love about leadership is that it is humanizing. It goes back to the principle\u00a0that people will always be people and when we recognize them for a human being with gifts and talents they feel valued. When someone feels valued it unlocks their potential and great things happen.<\/p>\n How can we recognize unlocked potential? What do you love most about leadership?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Northouse, P. G. (2018).\u00a0Leadership: Theory and practice<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Servant leadership in its basic form is the principle of how can I serve you?\u00a0 The components of servant leadership have always aligned with the type of leader I strive to be.\u00a0 Listening, empathy and healing are three […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":601,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-ldrs500-2","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/jessicalaugsawatzky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/jessicalaugsawatzky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/jessicalaugsawatzky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/jessicalaugsawatzky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/jessicalaugsawatzky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/jessicalaugsawatzky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/jessicalaugsawatzky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/jessicalaugsawatzky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/jessicalaugsawatzky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/jessicalaugsawatzky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}