Improving Team Leadership Development Training

Lynch and Friedman (2013) express that “Servant leadership is a valuable approach in politics and industry. Adding the spiritual component−striving to build a spiritual workplace and working to improve society− completes the paradigm and makes it more valuable as a leadership theory” (p.

The Family Health Center is a clinic that is under the umbrella of Bear Valley Community Hospital, a small rural hospital. The hospital is located in a ski resort town in the mountains above San Bernardino County. The next closest medical facility is an approximate hour drive on curvy mountain roads. The hospital is a standalone hospital, not associated with any other hospitals or chains. Bear Valley Community Hospital provides emergency room services, has eleven acute beds and a skilled nursing facility. Bear Valley Community Hospital accepts a wide variety of insurances and sees all ages and types of patients. The Family Health Center has a variety of specialty providers, as well as family practice. They have doctors with specialties in internal medicine, family practice, obstetrics/gynecology, pain control and chiropractic services (Family Health Center, n.d.). There is a telemedicine program that currently provides psychology services through telemedicine (Family Health Center, n.d.). There are several Family Nurse Practitioners and a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (Family Health Center, n.d.). As a result they see patients from pregnancy through adulthood. The clinic sees patients of all socioeconomic levels and accepts

Servant Leadership is “an approach to leadership with strong altruistic and ethical overtones that asks and requires leader to be attentive to the needs of their followers and empathize with them; they should take care of them by making sure they become healthier, wiser, freer and more autonomous, so that they too can become servant leaders” (Valeri, 2007). Although there is not many servant leaders in this world but the concept of servant is one of the most leadership approach leaders today struggles with. Servant leadership is mainly about the leader helping to grow their followers or members personally and professionally through empathy, listening skills and compassion. The concept of servant leadership which was proposed by Robert K. Greenleaf in his 1970 writing indicated that servant leadership is a theoretical framework that advocated a leader’s primary motivation and role as service to others.

Servant leadership is one of several models that have some basis in ethics, according to Northouse (2013), in this way servant leadership distinguishes itself from trait, path-goal or transformational models. The aim of this paper will be to examine on attribute of servant-leadership, describing how the principles might be applied, and the impact of such an approach, in a practical setting. The second part of this paper will evaluate servant leadership’s relationship with the Christian religion and ask whether the model is compatible with other belief systems.

Examining how students can greater develop their leadership potential has come to the forefront of education, education based athletics, and intercollegiate athletics in recent years. Recent research by (Grandzol, Perlis, Draina, 2010; Forrester & Borsz, 2008) has shown that those who are put into a role as a peer leader tend to develop leadership skills. Those individuals in peer leader roles have benefited from the opportunities they have been exposed to in those roles. In the summer of 2011 Dr. Christina J. Grandzol published a study entitled “An Exploratory Study of the Role of Task Dependence on Team Captains’ Leadership Development.” This study focused on 31 NCAA Division III team captains. While being a peer leader has been shown

At times we as Christians need to be reminded of who we are in Christ Jesus. As leaders, we need to empower out team by helping them to see themselves as Christ sees them. Help your team see through the fog of lies and negative views of self. Speak to their qualities you see in them with the aid of the Holy Spirit. God knows the greatness they have in

From the group Biblical Integration Paper, it was understood that servant-leadership is not only a gift of purpose that God places in the hearts of His people, but it is also a calling in one’s life to truly touch the lives of others in need. Living a successful life, as a servant-leader is not one that focuses on self-fulfillment, rather it is in seeking a fulfillment that comes from Christ when one pours him/herself out for the sake of others. It is through servant-leadership that one is able to bring hope into hopeless situations (Group Integration Paper,

As with the companies in the case studies, United Service Automobile Association (USAA) illustrates different facets of servant leadership (Northouse, 2013, p.236). The company displays servant leadership based on a mixture of a few of the ten characteristics of servant leadership (Spears, 2002) and the four of the seven servant leadership behaviors (Liden, Wayne, et al.’s, 2008). The characteristics are empathy and listening. The behaviors displayed are putting followers first, helping followers grow and succeed, behaving ethically, and creating value for the community. Servant leadership is seen in USAA from the creation of the company in 1922 to present.

Servant leaders understand the importance of motivating people to focus on their strengths and passions (Leman, & Pentak, 2004, pp. 33-39). Not only is this a benefit to the individual but it also increases the

During the course of her two journey as a fellow student part of the Management and Leadership (Healthcare Concentration) Bachelor of Arts program, Ms. Sams has truly demonstrated how the role of teamwork relates; to team members working together to strategically develop and accomplish a shared goal amongst themselves. Indisputably, strategically developing and accomplishing a team’s shared goal is sometimes the most difficult responsibilities presented to a team. However, strategically developing and accomplishing a team’s shared goal is not an impossible responsibility to accomplish. From experience, Ms. Sams participated in countless number of team projects during her two-year educational journey at Judson University. Reaping the benefits

of academic approaches and experiences. Banks and Ledbetter begin the book by highlighting the growing interest in leadership and the difference between leadership and management. The authors make a point about the issue of values, which is a necessary component when discussing the topic of leadership. Banks and Ledbetter state “the crisis that exists in leadership today

Leadership scholars have presented many theories in understanding leadership. However, making sense of hundreds of books and thousands of studies is a complicated task, which is why many mistakenly think that leadership is an indefinable phenomenon. Some of us presume complete authority in our own favored ways. Novel leaders often discard the entire system used by the exiting leaders. In a catastrophic situation, persistence on individual style can be helpful; yet in a democratic culture, leaders don’t own the organization and must consider the right of the followers. Personal style and preference must be

Robert Greenleaf is the father of modern servant-leadership movement and founder of the Greenleaf servant for Leadership. His desire to change a power centered authoritarian leadership style that was prominent in the US institution motivated him to create a leadership style that is focused on leaders being servant. He was inspired by Larry Spears’ work and promoted that a servant leader should have the characteristics or principles of listening, empathy, healing, awareness, persuasion, conceptualization, foresight, stewardship, commitment to growth of people, and building community. In this paper, servant leadership will be better understood. A Venn diagram will also be shown to illustrate the similarities and differences between Greenleaf's principles of servant leadership and several biblical passages; a summary of how both Greenleaf and Christianity call people to serve; and will discuss how one feels when called to serve as a leader.

In the book The Servant, the author James C. Hunter discusses Servant Leadership, and the impact it has on every aspect of life. The book begins with a middle-aged man, John, who has it all, a supportive wife and kids and an authoritative job as a manager at a glass factory. John however, feels his life is falling apart, his employees aren’t respecting him and his relationships with his wife and kids are becoming distant and negative. In an attempt to make a change, John attended a week long religious retreat that’s main focus is Servant Leadership. The attendees at this retreat were all very different, their careers varied greatly, and their views on how to be a leader were not alike either. In the end though, they all agreed on one thing, making a change to become a Servant Leader was going to reshape their lives, through both their careers and relationships.

The second part of this investigation focused on training as an antecedent of organizational performance in a servant leadership environment. Dr. Herb Shaffer (Institute for Servant Leadership), Dr. Bill Jones (Area Director for the Church of God in Michigan) and Dr. Rebecca New-Edson (Area Director for the Church of God in Western Pennsylvania), professional trainers were also interviewed. These interviews were comprised of questions focusing on training in a servant leadership environment and the impact on organizational performance. Discussions and Results section of this research paper outline the findings.