Coaching With a Servant

Coaching With a Servant’s Heart

Merrium Leverett | 2015

Abstract

We live in a world of hustle and bustle, everyone trying to get to one place or another and always in a hurry. In the process, we tend to push people through, coming across as only concerned about our needs. What has all this hurried life done for our leadership, our followership, and our general care for one another? How do we fix this issue of meeting the needs of others, while withstanding the hustle and bustle of life? In other words, how do we lead in a hurried world? This manuscript offers a solution to this dilemma through a Servant Leadership Coaching model. Put the term service back into servant leadership, we focus more on leadership where we serve the needs of the people, then we can become better servant leaders. This can be accomplished through using the Servant Leadership Coaching Model to develop leaders who effectuate change through serving the needs of others.

The model is a three stage modal that focuses on change. The three stages are: change mindset; develop leadership; and change culture. To change the mindset we must understand what leadership is, explore personalities and motivations, build trusting relationships and then develop a learning environment. After this stage the coach begins to develop the leader by coaching them to listen and effectively communicate, develop core values, clarify the vision, and facilitate change while being accessible. The final stage of the model deals with changing the culture of the leader and organization to one of a servant leader by inspiring/empowering others, showing genuine concern, supporting community and encouraging change. Through utilization of this model leaders can make a difference. They begin to change the world.