Servant Leadership

Servant leadership is behavior that nurtures

individual development in the organization through
listening, empathy, stewardship, and an awareness
to develop followers who think ethically and foster
sound interpersonal relations with their colleagues.
The servant leader attends to individual growth, to
realizing the organizations goals, and to the ethical
and moral effects on the broader community

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Servant Leadership
Servant leadership has much common with
transformational leadership

Credibilit
y

Vision
Influenc
e
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Trust

 Although traditional
views of
organizations use a
pyramid to show
the relative
placement of
leaders at the top
and followers on
the bottom

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 Servant leadership inverts the power pyramid to

show the relative placement of leaders: The
leader supports the organization and the
responsibility for action is dispersed across the
organization.

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Seven pillars of Servant

leadership
Seven
Pillars

Personal
character
People first
Skilled
communication
Compassionat
e collaboration
Foresight
Systems
thinking
Moral
authority
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Hoy 2003, 2008, 2011

Evolutionary Leadership
Theory (ELT)

The basic premise ELT is that leadership and followership emerged

during the course of human evolution.
Leadership and followership are psychological adaptations that
have been sculpted into our brain; they are instinctive and
universal and have become the natural order of things. We are
programmed to live in groups, to be led, and to be obedient most
of the time.
ELT also postulates the particular traits associated with initiative
taking and intelligence are largely inherited and propel people to
power positions.
Leadership has three important functions: it binds groups; it helps
the group learn new things; and it teaches others how to lead.

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group unity is under threat

Follow
Leaders

subordinates aspire to
leadership

subordinates dont know

what to do or think
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Evolutionary Leadership
Theory (ELT)

ELT emphasizes followers as a vital component of leadership.

Increasingly leaders need to learn how to shift their pattern of
leadership as they interact with followers up the ladder of
commitment from subordinates to supporters to loyalists to
apprentices to disciples.
Leaders need to be a source of inspiration for disciples, a teacher
for apprentices, a defender for loyalists, a figurehead for
supporters, and a provider for subordinates.

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Practical Imperatives

Know your
leadership style
and be flexible
Match your
leadership style.
Mission first,
people always
Strive to be
broadly effective

Make informality a
virtue
Be just: Favoritism
and nepotism
erode fairness.
Avoid the Dark
Triad: Narcissism,
Machiavellianism,
and a
Psychopathy.

Be both an
instructional and
organizational
leader
Delegate and
distribute
leadership widely
Be inspirational,
intellectual,
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idealistic, and tailor