Question

Learn about current trends in servant leadership by conducting your own research and locating an article that illustrates how the principles of servant leadership are being employed in the workplace, as part of a volunteer or service effort, or in an individual's personal life. In the Main Forum, post a short summary and a link to the article. Discuss what you learned from reading the article and whether or not you would consider applying servant leadership in a similar way. Thanks

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Servant Leadership: Servant leader is defined as the leader who is willing to serve in the organization. The servant leader does not believe in showing the power in the organization, but servant leader is willing to get the authorization and believes in the execution of the work in the organization. Servant leader focuses on serving approach in the organization.

Learning on current trends in servant leadership is as below

• Servant leader demonstrated the commitment in the organization by involving in the organization and resolving the issues and set the process such that the process will avoid issues in future and it will achieve the organization goals. Thus fixing the issues and problem resolution in the organization shows the commitment of servant leader.
• Servant leader develops the trust and respect among the employees and employees believe on the servant leader rather than traditional leader.
• Servant leader focus on listening the things in the organization so that he gets the highest clarity on the subject and then act to resolve the issue and fix it permanently. This motivates the employee and develops good relation among the leader and employees.
• Servant leadership creates excellent working culture and environment which motivates employee to perform better.

From the article, we learned that servant leadership is essential leadership approach as it helps in building right environment and working culture in the organization. Servant leadership has additional impact in motivating employees in the organization. Employee feels empowered and willing to work with the leaders.

Yes we would consider applying servant leadership in a similar way, because servant leadership is very essential approach of leadership and it result very positively in the organization. Servant leadership is the future of the leadership in the organizations.