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Effective Practices of the Servant Leader and the Health Servant Leadership Organization

Effective Practices of the Servant Leader and the Health Servant Leadership Organization

Jacqueline Martin | 2015

Abstract

Effective Practices of the Servant Leader and the Healthy Servant Leadership Organization is a leadership development training and organizational health assessment. It is designed to facilitate a learning opportunity for all levels of leadership in an organization to accomplish 5 main objectives:

  1. Recognize the attributes required of a leader and leadership.
  2. Identify characteristics, feelings, and actions of the servant leader by examining contemporary servant leadership models.
  3. Examine and identify traits and competencies of an exemplary servant leader.
  4. Know if the character of servant leadership is evident in leaders by discussing, learning principles and practicing servant leadership skills such as active listening, empathy and conflict resolution.
  5. Know what it takes to start a personal journey on the path toward servant leadership and implement changes in the organization to achieve “optimal” organizational health by looking at culture, strategy and the factors that affect organizational health.

The training is structured around Greenleaf’s concept of servant leadership in which leaders “serve first, then lead” (Greenleaf, R.K. Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power & Greatness, 1977/2002) as the approach to develop leaders, and Dr. Jim Laub’s OLA framework (Laub, J A, Defining Servant Leadership: A Recommended Typology for Servant Leadership Students, a 2004 presentation in Virginia Beach, VA) to assess organizational health. Leaders receive practical tools to help them increase their knowledge, skill, and attitude toward becoming exemplary servant leaders in service to a healthy organizational vision. Throughout the 8 hours of training participants will use “table talk” exercises, videos, case studies, and handouts to anchor learning in the realities of various leadership situations.