Spears identifies ten characteristics of servant leadership. Three of these, commitment to the growth of people, building community, and the ideas of stewardship are especially important to me (Spears, 2010).<\/p>\n
I have been in leadership for long enough at the same school that I have hired a majority of the employees, both teachers and support staff.\u00a0 For this reason I feel a responsibility to them both personally and professionally. This means that I not only need to work to support them professionally but also walk through life with them as they both celebrate their victories and struggle through their challenges.\u00a0 While at work I support them as they seek to pursue professional interests or take risks as they try something new in their classrooms.\u00a0 I see myself as a coach, providing guidance and direction to help them become the best at what they do.\u00a0As they come to work each day, it is important that I provide opportunities for the staff to connect on a personal level. It is my desire that they not spend nine hours a day near each other but rather with each other.\u00a0 As we work together, I focus on the long approach of influence through relationship and trust we will become increasingly aligned in our work.<\/p>\n
With these thoughts in mind the first thing I would seek to do while coordinating a group project would be to develop a caring atmosphere where it was safe to share and exchange ideas. This would happen by giving the team an opportunity to do a team building activity where they needed to depend on each other and therefore learn to trust and appreciate the strengths and abilities of the others. This culture does not always naturally develop and must be curated by the leader.\u00a0 As each team was given their roles and began their work toward achieving their objective, I would want to check in with each of them to see if they had everything they needed in the way of resources, time and information.\u00a0 A team will work more effectively with the knowledge that the leader is committed to them as a team as well as individuals.\u00a0 It would be important for me to communicate to the team that I had confidence in them and that they were chosen for the team for a reason. As a servant leader, I must relinquish control of the details and serve the group members as they set out to accomplish the goal they have been tasked with.<\/p>\n
In a small organization, how do you select team members for a specific project without minimizing the abilities of the rest of the staff?<\/p>\n
Reference<\/strong><\/p>\n Spears, Larry C. (2010)\u00a0C<\/span>haracter and\u00a0<\/span>Servant<\/span>\u00a0Leadership: Ten Characteristics of Effective, Caring Leaders<\/span>.\u00a0The Journal of Virtues & Leadership, Vol. 1 Iss. 1<\/i>, 2010, 25-30. Retrieved from\u00a0https:\/\/www.regent.edu\/acad\/global\/publications\/jvl\/vol1_iss1\/Spears_Final.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Spears identifies ten characteristics of servant leadership. Three of these, commitment to the growth of people, building community, and the ideas of stewardship are especially important to me (Spears, 2010). I have been in leadership for long enough at the same school that I have hired a majority of the employees, both teachers and support […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,32],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-unit5","tag-learning-activity-2","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}