1 it’s all about relationships: dr. carolyn crippen [email protected] where are you now?
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Leadership is a moral endeavor.• This endeavor includes followership and service
too.• With this triad comes responsibility. • First, you can be a moral leader with your
friends and social group. Then, you can model and demonstrate through your actions a caring, thoughtful, & inclusive attitude in your university community and beyond.
• You lead simply because it is there to do. It is not a glory thing.
• Good leaders are good followers.
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The institutional leadership shift
Now, “role definitions are both more general and more flexible; leadership is connected to competence for needed tasks rather than to formal position; and independence and isolation are replaced by cooperative work”
(Murphy & Louis, 1999, p. xxii).
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Paradigm Shift
From
• Leaders are born, not made.
• Good management makes successful organizations.
• Avoid failure at all costs.
• Hierarchical, patriarchal.
• Exclusive
• Coercive.
To
• Developing leaders.
• Building educational culture.
• Growth through dissonance.*
• Shared decision-making
• Inclusive
• Persuasive, collegial.
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One responsive approach: A philosophy
• Servant-Leadership• Robert K. Greenleaf (1904-1990)• The Servant as Leader, 1970.• Leadership-service combination.• Stewardship.• Through one’s service a person will be recognized
as a leader.• This includes anyone (followers/leaders).
• First to serve, then to lead.
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Power and relationships
• No-one should feel powerless in any organization.
• Share power: not power over but, power to• Primus inter pares- means first among
equals• We are all valuable, capable, and
responsible.• Create a culture of civility and care.
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A servant-leader is
…servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. The difference manifests itself in the care taken by the servant: first, to make sure other people’s highest priority needs are being served. The best test is: do those served grow as persons; do they while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? And what of the least privileged in society; will they benefit, or at least not be further deprived? (Greenleaf, 1970, p. 7)
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And more about power.
• As a leader you have power.
• How you use this power is critical.
• You never know when you touch or when you crush a person.
• Servant-leadership is about the positive use of power to help others grow.
• It is a moral responsibility.
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Characteristics of S-L
Person of character, puts people
first, skilled communicator,
compassionate collaborator,
foresight, systems thinker &
moral authority
(Sipe & Frick, 2009)
Listening, empathy, healing,
awareness, persuasion,
conceptualization, foresight,
stewardship,
commitment to the growth of
others & building community
(Spears, 2003)
A calling
(Barbuto & Wheeler, 2006)
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2 Significant Implications
• Leadership without service is less substantial, more ego-driven & selfish, instead of being community centered, altruistic & empathetic.
• Leadership involves teaching & mentoring, as one of the major requirements of leaders; they must invite others toward service.(Purkey & Siegel, 2002, p. 191)
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Ponderings
• Where am I now? • Why did I decide to serve here?• What can I contribute?• When am I leader? A follower?• At the end of the day, have I
made it better?• Have I contributed to the moral imperative?
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Greenleaf speaks directly to us
Many leaders have sufficient latitude in dealing with people that they could, on their own, help nurture the servant leader potential, which I believe, is latent to some degree in almost every young person. Could not many respected leaders speak those few words that might change the course of life, or give it new purpose? (1977, p. 5)