Final Reflection Servant leadership means serving others and leading. It puts everyone else first by teaching to put others before oneself, bringing out the main qualities. Simply being or having leadership qualities doesn't always work. Most leadership models are possessive of what is best for oneself, some work while others don't, especially because the reluctance to see others before oneself is a difficult concept for some to understand and use. You can be a great leader, but if you don't understand servant qualities or don't serve for the good of others, you won't like your problem very much. I think most don't know what Servant Leadership is or means, I didn't until this course opened it up for me. I will say that I have normal leadership qualities now, although I strive to learn some of the Servant Leadership roles that I was taught by this course. A beautiful quote by Leo Tolsty – “Everyone thinks about changing the world, but no one thinks about changing themselves”. I agree with this quote, no one thinks that if they start changing themselves the world will follow. Change yourself before you try to save the world! No one wants to be forced to change, but in some cases the demands of others are supposed to take priority. Many of us have these values all mixed up. Datron, a company I read about in 7 Pillars, uses 5 core values that I think are an excellent way to use Servant Leadership. 1. Our family comes first. 2. Honor and serve others. 3. Conduct ourselves ethically and with integrity. 4. be honest and trustworthy. 5. be uncompromising in our values. I appreciate each of these just in my personal life, I can only imagine how well they work in the workplace. The book 7 Pillars of Servant Leadership by: James W. Sipe and Don M. Frick was opened at...... middle of paper ...... for the same reasons and no one is better than another is very more than a place where I am not listened to and where I am unhappy. I didn't think about it or sit down and put together a personal leadership plan for the next 30 days or any time period. I'm not usually one to write down tasks and schedules and execute them. I have goals that I try to accomplish when I can, but I don't have them on paper and I don't give myself a deadline for when they need to be accomplished. I know what I need to do, what is important, why, and what I try to accomplish or do first. In the next 30 days I'm not sure exactly where I will be in my life. However I will take some time and think about creating a personal leadership development plan, I'm curious to see if I can lock myself into one and how much more I could accomplish by making this plan. Pray that I can overcome the possibilities of a plan and my future.
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