Beth Moore is a leader who has massive influence. To be honest, I had not given her much thought until recently I read an article (Green 2018) about her published in the Atlantic (https://www.theatlantic.com/). It talks about her various achievements, the… Continue Reading →
Thank you for sharing your example of how you demonstrated the servant leader characteristic of healing in your post. Although Greenleaf argued that the when servant leaders help their followers walk through the process of healing, they themselves become healed (Northouse, 2016, p. 228), it was only after reading your post that I began to …
The three Servant Leader characteristics which I would like to personally develop are: awareness, persuasion and conceptualization. Awareness refers to “a quality within servant leaders that makes them acutely attuned and receptive to their physical, social, and political environments. It includes understanding oneself and the impact one has on others. With awareness, servant leaders are …
Here is the link to Chris Vacher article on Activity 4. I enjoyed reading his article and thought it was a really good point that he made that assigned leadership is top down, while emergent is bottom up, I also found his question very relatable and a good reflection: As a leader, do you find […]
Of the ten principles of servant leadership from the Personal Inventory of Servant Leadership, the three that are the most challenging for me are: listening, empathy and building community. An example of listing occurred several years ago when a married couple I knew was having difficulties in their relationship. The wife’s overriding concern was that …
Northouse’s definition of assigned and emergent leaders is that assigned leaders are people who hold a formal position in an organization. In contrast, emergent leaders become leaders because of the way other group members respond to them (2019, p. 8). Northouse lists two similarities between leader and managers: working with people and concern with effective …
Northouse defines leadership as “a process whereby an individual influence as a group of individuals to achieve a common goal.” Northouse refers to the process viewpoint. He suggests that leadership is a phenomenon that resides in the context of the interaction between leaders and followers. He contends that leadership is, therefore, available to everyone. As …
Three principles of Servant Leadership I want to highlight are: Healing, Persuasion and Building Community (Spears, 2002, pp.1-16). Healing The characteristic of Healing means to “care about the personal well-being of the followers” (Spears, 2002, pp.1-16). An example of this, from my experience, comes out of recognizing where the person is coming from and their past experiences. There […]
For most of my professional life, I have felt drawn to those few and scattered profit-driven organizations that choose to lead with their values and hearts first, knowing full well that this commitment could unravel their entire existence. Corporate Activism. An oxymoron if there ever was one. Is it really possible for capitalism to thrive …
In Leadership (2018), Northouse defines leadership as “a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal” (p. 5). He coins this definition by incorporating five components including influence, process, power, group context, and goal attainment. Theoretically, if a leader does not have any followers, then they are not leading …