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A servant leader is one who out of love serves others needs before their own, voluntary submits themselves to a higher purpose, which is beyond their personal interests or the interests of others, uses the power that is entrusted to them to serve others, teaches the followers, in word and deed on how to become servant leaders themselves. The servant-leader shares power, puts the needs of others first and helps people develop and perform as highly as possible. Servant leadership is caring leadership and helps to build trust because followers believe that their leader genuinely cares about their welfare. He or she is a skilled communicator, a compassionate collaborator who has foresight, a systems thinker, and someone who leads with moral authority (PSU, 2013) . A servant leader recognizes that the people doing the work generally have the best ideas about how to improve the processes they participate in. Servant leaders are compassionate, considerate, and empathetic. Reaching beyond self-interest, they put the well-being of those they serve before their own needs. Leaders who are properly fulfilling a call of leadership perform at a higher level that is representative of and complementary to the vocational level while adding a special dimension. Jesus showed a role model by washing his servants feet. Therefore servant leaders are called to serve not to be served. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. (Matthew 20:26-28). Servant leadership offers a fresh approach to meeting the critical leadership challenges of contemporary organisations, while honouring the humanity of everyone they touch( Benton, 2017) The terms of the work world have changed . Employee expectations and organisational mandates have shifted. In order to be successful and relevant leader in the work environment, servant leaders must learn new ways of leading, throwing off the old command and control styles of management and adopting models that are principled and service-driven. This requires more than a to-do list. It demands a fundamental re-imagining of corporate culture and organisational health. Organisations are like people. They can be healthy or ailing and even moribund. An organisation’s state of health affects its employees, customers, processes, reputation and bottom line. It seeps into their ethics, agility, relationships, ability to attract talent, customer loyalty and culture(Benton, 2017).

References

Belton, L. (2017). Servant leadership: A Journey, not a Race

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Penn State university, (2013). Servant leadership in the healthcare world.

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