Personal Statement : My Mba Program

Selfless service is a fundamental concept for any leader to incorporate because of the effects it has on those that lead. By placing selfless service as the priority of the organization, its gives followers the ability to focus on their own agenda first before your own. This can align goals for the subordinates to accomplish by the leader placing them first as well as an example for others to emulate. As Major General Dees highlights, this is also a quality that can be learned over

Hi everyone, my name Emily Hernandez and my goal is once I attain my associate degree at Valencia is to transfer to UCF to the Social Worker Master degree program. I recently bought a fixer upper house because I thought it was going to be easy fixing it up by myself, you see my favorite TV show is HGTV. Well after much pain and tears I can say my kitchen looks beautiful, lesson learn next house will be a move in ready.

Servant leadership is best know for placing the needs and wants of others above those of the leader; this helps to create a trusting and empowered team of followers to help organizations reach their goals (Mahembe & Engelbrecht, 2014). The servant leadership model is able to help nonprofit organizations gain a competitive advantage in ways that are not necessarily profit driven, such as improving employee satisfaction and commitment to the organization (Center for Servant Leadership, n.d.). The improvement of employee satisfaction has been linked to improved customer satisfaction, which helps to build support for the organization (Center for Servant Leadership, n.d.).

As a servant leader, I demonstrate humility, appreciation of others’ work and empowerment in my conduct as a leader. I use every opportunity to boost employee morale by recognizing their achievements and forgive them for challenges not met. I believe and reinforce the idea that people are more than their mistakes, and mistakes are opportunities to become better persons. In aligning transformational leadership with servant leadership, I model the way, encourage the heart and provide inspirational motivation to my staff and subordinates. I am people oriented and use my vision and influence to create a working environment with engaged and satisfied employees.

This is article is all about us, we’re a team with a strong serving culture. It’s the culture and priority set by leadership for everyone to be treated the same. It has become more and more popular within the service business and has proven to have major impact throughout the service industry. This type of culture and leadership style especially in the service businesses continue to help employees and motivated them to do better. When leaders shown that employees are valuable and viable to the organization, it shown positive business results. The article stated that servant leaderships are ethical, always ensure employees first. They are created, higher customer service mindset and one of their traits is exceptional problem solving. The leaders are always passionate for giving back to the community. These what servant leaderships are capable of; the more servant leadership commitment to employees and organization, the

One of the goals of servant leadership is to replicate servant leadership qualities and behaviors in others. The authors present an empirical investigation using a survey developed by Barbuto and Wheeler (2006), to determine if servant leaders can create a corporate culture where this is possible. This article points to the organizational level at which the tone or overarching direction is set and the key element of service and employee empowerment that impacts cooperation, learning and customer relations. It also reinforces the position that many of the research on this subject have stated, that employee fulfillment, leading by example and role modeling set the stage for servant leadership to be accepted and mimicked by employees. Participants in this study were interviewed to

During the course of my undergraduate studies, I knew that furthering my education would be something I would strive to do. However, I felt that obtaining work experience first would be beneficial to my capability and knowledge for graduate school. Moreover, I felt that the work experience would help increase my basic practice skills and give me the capability to see areas that I could better improve in.

Being a servant leader empowers others to become better people. Without such leadership, Kelleher’s employees would feel as if they do not matter, but in reality they are the most important assets to the airline company.

During my time as Supervisor of Customer Service I learned quickly that I must be flexible and willing to serve those who worked for me. I was in my first management position, and I was tasked with leading a group of employees who I had never done the work in which they perform. I was in over my head, as one might say, however, I soon discovered that I must put aside my self-interest for the betterment of our team. Becoming a servant leader was a great way to earn the respect of my employees without having the “street cred”. A servant leader transcends self-interest to serve others, the organization, and society (Daft & Marcic, 2016, pg. 474). By giving ideas, recognition, and credit for accomplishments I was able to bridge the gap between my employees and myself. In doing this, I was able to learn from my employees and they were willing and open to showing me how they worked which increased my field

When an organization functions under servant leadership, certain outcomes are expected. Followers’ performance should increase and they should be evidence of growth in all areas of their life. The organization should have signs of growth and development. The community around the organization or those individuals which receive services from the organization should have advance from one point to the next higher level. The organization should have a positive impact on the

One of the most common types of leaders people tend to become is a servant leader. This style of leadership is set on enriching the lives of individuals, building better organizations and giving their all to create a more caring world. Servant leaders model after being able to listen and communicate with other leaders. They show empathy when needed, offer healing to others, and are aware to their surroundings and others emotions. The ultimate goal of a servant leader is to build a better community. (Northouse, 2013, pp. 225-230) The phrase “servant leadership” was created by Robert K. Greenleaf in The Servant as Leader, an essay that he first published in 1970. In that essay, Greenleaf said:

Some may think of the term servant leadership as a negative word, thinking they will have job duties such as getting your leader coffee, running errands, or making you do assignments you may feel is you are doing thankless, unpleasant, or tedious work. This is not what servant leadership is. Individuals who are in the position as a servant leader will take his or her associates and contributions into consideration and appreciate their work by being consistent and allowing them to voice their ideas and thoughts. One of the main focuses of servant leadership is to build and make more servant leaders to be as good as you are or better than you are. In doing so, the servant leaders must be willing to allow other individuals to grow by giving them the capacity or weight to delegate other individuals to advance. Servant leaders should also provide an open-door policy where employees or individuals can get work assistance and personal assistance they may need outside of the workplace that with help them grow. In leadership models, a common mistake has been made often, and that is servant leaders take individuals for granted and make them responsible for all task. This problem should be corrected by servant leaders having a positive attitude of including self in the daily tasks and not just giving and ordering other employees or others to always get the job done. Servant leaders do not use their power to demand things or summons workers. The

Robert K. Greenleaf coined the idea of servant leadership in 1970 (Swearingen, 2004). In the simplest of terms, servant leadership is about serving others first with leadership following. These leaders assume the role only after believing it is the best way to serve others (Swearingen, 2004). The qualities and characteristics of servant leadership will be identified and explained, in addition to the practical application in health care. Lastly, the transformation of this writer’s views on leadership will be discussed.

Born and raised by a teenage single mother, I became aware at an early age of challenges encountered by women. What most fascinated me with my mother is that she did not give up high school despite pregnancy, mockeries, and parental pressure; she has made her way to become one of the 31% women of Cameroon’s Parliament while making sacrifices to provide me with a good education. With such model, I strongly believe in power of education and hard working to achieve greatness which is what I am aiming through pursuing an MBA.

. Servant Leadership (SL) is not new, it was practiced and taught by great leaders more than 2000 years ago. It is oriented around emotional healing and helping others to grow. It focuses on factors like internal structure, work environment, people, and their performance in an organization which automatically leads to increase the productivity and profitability. The most important aspect of SL is that it can be integrated into any leadership model. This can be seen by Cleveland Clinic’s case study. Cleveland Clinic was facing challenges related to employees’ engagement and patient satisfaction in 2008. Then Clinic integrated servant leadership principles in its hierarchical leadership model majorly focusing to increase employees’ engagement.