Growing Impact of Servant-Leadership

In the introduction to Insights on Leadership, titled “Tracing the Growing Impact of Servant-Leadership” Larry Spears writes, “Both this book and this introduction are intended to provide a broad overview of the growing influence this unique concept of servant-leadership is having on people and their workplaces.”, and that “Servant-leadership truly offers hope and guidance for a new era in human development, and for creation of better, more caring institutions.”

Spear’s article introduces ten characteristics of Servant-leadership, those being listening, empathy, healing, awareness, persuasion, conceptualization, foresight, stewardship, commitment to the growth of people and building community.

He also outlines six area’s where Servant-leadership concepts have been utilized successfully including institutional philosophy, trustee education, community leadership organizations, experiential education or service learning, education and training programs and personal growth.