What is Servant Leadership

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The servant leader has foresight and uses the tools of listening, empathizing and healing to persuade his followers to build a better community. Learn more in: A “Novel” Approach to the Moral Dimension of Leadership

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An approach to leadership that emphasizes the leader intentionally serving the follower(s). Learn more in: Preparing Managers to Lead for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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A leadership style where one serves others first and then chooses to lead by setting the example of serving to ultimately benefit the underrepresented and underserved populations. Learn more in: The “Double-Whammy” of Being Black and a Woman in Higher Education Leadership

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A philosophical, set of practices, and broadening leadership theory introduced by Robert Greenleaf that addresses the characteristics of a leader. Learn more in: Sylvanus Thayer: A Historical Case Study of His Educational Leadership

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A servant leader focuses primarily on the growth and well-being of people and the communities to which they belong. A servant leader puts the needs of teachers and students first and helps develop their teaching and learning potential. Learn more in: Becoming a Mathematics Specialist Teacher Leader: Impact Stories From Early Childhood Teachers

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The ability to place the needs of the organization and people first and help others increase their knowledge, skills, and abilities. Learn more in: Servant and Shepherd Leadership in Higher Education: Empowerment and Mentorship

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The servant leadership is a type of leadership where leaders display a desire to serve rather than lead. Servant leadership focuses mainly on the premise of serving something greater than being the leader. Learn more in: Effective Educational Leadership in the Digital Age: An Examination of Professional Qualities and Best Practices

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A leadership style that focuses on the needs and development of the individual contributors reporting to that leader instead of emphasizing the leader's goals. Learn more in: Mutually Beneficial Mentoring for Mental Wellness and Personal Growth

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An individual must be a servant first to serve society, community, customers, and employees by putting his/her benefits to the side. Working for betterment of the society, people, and community is called servant leadership. Learn more in: Servant Leadership, Burnout, and Turnover Intention

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Emphasizes the leader’s role as steward of the resources (human, financial, and otherwise) provided by the organization. It encourages leaders to serve others while staying focused on achieving results in line with the organization’s values and integrity. Learn more in: Theory and Application of Leadership

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A leadership style in which the ultimate goal is to improve the skills and knowledge of followers. Learn more in: The Leadership Role of Scholarly Communications in the COVID-19 Crisis: A Case Study

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A style of leadership that goes beyond self-interests and focuses on others. Learn more in: High Quality Online Programs: The Role of Leadership and Teamwork to Support Student-Centered Graduate Education

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Servant leadership is a leadership philosophy in which the main goal of the leader is to serve the followers. The need to serve is more important to a servant leader than the need to power. A servant leader feels a moral responsibility to bring success to the subordinates, the organization, the customers and other stake holders. Learn more in: Servant Leadership and Organizational Discipline: A Qualitative Study

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It is a leadership philosophy in which the main goal of the leader is to serve. This is different from traditional leadership where the leader's main focus is the thriving of their company or organizations. Learn more in: Servant Leadership Within the Context of Organizational Efficacy

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A leadership style that involves demonstrating the characteristics of empathy, listening, stewardship, and commitment to personal growth toward others. Learn more in: Autocratic, Transactional, and Servant Leadership in Japan, France, and Mexico: A Cross-Culture Theoretical Analysis

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Describes a leadership style where the leader is primarily interested in serving his/her followers. The leader here places the interests of his/her followers needs, interests, and aspirations before his/her own. Learn more in: Social Entrepreneurs as Servant Leaders: Revealing the Implied Nature of Power in Servant Leadership

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The leadership style that prioritizes subordinates’ needs, aspirations, and interests. Learn more in: Servant Leadership and Job Satisfaction: A Qualitative Study in the Chinese Healthcare Context

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Servant leadership is considered as a leadership style that implements good practices for employees’ development and well-being. Serving for employees’ requirements makes a leader as a servant leader. Learn more in: Servant Leadership and Work-Related Quality of Life in Organizations: Mediating Role of Trust in Leader

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A philosophical, set of practices, and broadening leadership theory introduced by Robert Greenleaf that addresses the characteristics of a leader. Learn more in: Balancing the Leadership Equation: Know Yourself and Know Your Follower – A Modern Case Study of Metacognition and Servant Leadership

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This ethical leadership approach centers on the leader’s role towards the fulfilment of the followers’ needs, demands, wishes and aspirations, hence, supports and promotes the followers’ interests in the first place, being that the leader’s main organizational and managerial role is to serve people, advocating acceptance, tolerance, respect, genuine care, empathy, love, fairness, and forgiveness all along with his attitudes and behaviors. Learn more in: To Serve, and to Be Served: Servant Leadership Inputs on Leveraging Organizational Performance