Mental Strength Tip #118: Servant Leadership and Personal Success

Welcome back to another Mental Strength Tip!

Exceeding your human potential, achieving personal success and reaching your personal goals starts with a mental strength mindset of empowering beliefs that will instill the feeling of empowerment.

Reaching your personal goals, achieving personal success and exceeding your human potential starts in your mind…and finishes with taking inspired and massive action.

This is one in a series of virtual personal coaching and mental strength tips to help kick-start your week.  It is intended to create self-empowerment and inspire you to take action so that you can reach your personal goals and personal success.

I take one mental strength tips and run though a brief overview of it, then ask some very direct coaching questions.  The intention of this virtual personal coaching session is for you to write and answer these questions in your success journal and then reflect on them to gain insight on yourself, your dreams and what’s holding you back.

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Objective of this Mental Strength Tip:

To remind you that at the heart of leadership is being of service.  When you can be a servant leader your personal success is all but assured.

Let’s Get Started:

Servant leadership can be defined as a leadership philosophy which implies a comprehensive view of the quality of people, work and community spirit. It requires a spiritual understanding of identity, mission, vision and environment. A servant leader is someone who is servant first, who has responsibility to be in the world, and so he contributes to the well-being of people and community. A servant leader looks to the needs of the people and asks themselves how can I help to solve problems and promote personal development.

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

• Do you believe the greatest leaders are the greatest servants?
• Is it possible to over-serve?
• Do you believe servant leaders ever achieve personal success?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Servant Leadership

• Leaders are dictators, not servants.
• Leaders only serve themselves.
• Leaders are too ego driven to serve.

Mental Strength Beliefs about Servant Leadership

• The greatest leaders are the greater servants.
• The more people you serve the more success you enjoy.
• Servant leadership is a privilege.

Outrageous Questions:

• If you provided more serve would you be a better leader?
• Are you too ego-drive to serve?
• If you were more of a servant leader would you gain more respect?

Reflective Questions:

• Who are the greatest servant leaders you know?
• What three action steps could you take today to become more of a servant leader?
• On a scale of 1-9, 9 being elite servant leaders, how would the people you sere rate you?

Mental Strength Coaching:

The biggest challenge you’re going to face when changing your mindset on leadership is that most the average person thinks that people serve leaders, instead of leaders serving others.

When you can look for and find examples of leaders serving others you’ll begin ot make that shit.

Final Thought

Greenleaf scholars generally agree that these characteristics are central to the development of a servant-leader:

• Listening: Traditionally, and also in servant leadership, managers are required to have communication skills as well as the competence to make decisions. A servant leader has the motivation to listen actively to subordinates and support them in decision identification. The servant leader particularly needs to pay attention to what remains unspoken in the management setting. This means relying on his inner voice in order to find out what the body, mind and spirit are communicating.

• Empathy: A servant leader attempts to understand and empathize with others. Workers may be considered not only as employees, but also as people who need respect and appreciation for their personal development. As a result, leadership is seen as a special type of human work, which ultimately generates a competitive advantage.

• Healing: A great strength of a Servant Leader is the ability for healing one’s self and others. A servant leader tries to help people solve their problems and conflicts in relationships, because he wants to encourage and support the personal development of each individual. This leads to the formation of a business culture, in which the working environment is dynamic, fun and free of the fear of failure.

• Awareness: A servant leader needs to gain general awareness and especially self-awareness. He has the ability to view situations from a more integrated, holistic position. As a result, he gets a better understanding about ethics and values.

• Persuasion: A Servant Leader does not take advantage of their power and status by coercing compliance; they rather try to convince those they manage. This element distinguishes servant leadership most clearly from traditional, authoritarian models and can be traced back to the religious views of Robert Greenleaf.

• Conceptualization: A servant leader thinks beyond day-to-day realities. That means he has the ability to see beyond the limits of the operating business and also focuses on long-term operating goals. A Leader constructs a personal vision that only he can develop by reflecting on the meaning of life. As a result, he derives specific goals and implementation strategies.

• Foresight: Foresight is the ability to foresee the likely outcome of a situation. It enables the servant leader to learn about the past and to achieve a better understanding about the current reality. It also enables the servant leader to identify consequences about the future. This characteristic is closely related to conceptualization.

• Stewardship: CEOs, staffs and trustees have the task to hold their institution in trust for the greater good of society. Servant leadership is seen as an obligation to help and serve others. Openness and persuasion are more important than control.

• Commitment to the growth of people: A servant leader is convinced that people have an intrinsic value beyond their contributions as workers. Therefore, she should nurture the personal, professional and spiritual growth of employees. For example, she spends money for the personal and professional development of the people who make up her organization. The servant leader will also encourage the ideas of everyone and involve workers in decision making.

• Building community: A servant leader identifies means to build a strong community within his organization and wants to develop a true community among businesses and institutions.

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