CHAPTER 5

Leadership
How can you defined Leader and
Leadership?
Leader

 An individual who is perceived by group members as

having a legitimate position of power or influence in
a group.
 Three key roles as a Leader:

■ As a Guide
 Where the leader assumes the role as the director,
organizer, mentor, guru and adviser
■ As a Frontrunner
 Where the leader can be a spearhead, leading light,
trailblazer, and groundbreaker.
■ As a Head
 Where he or she can be called chief, manager,
superior, principal, boss, and supervisor
Leadership

■ Defined as a process of giving control, guidance,

headship, direction, and governance.
Building Blocks in Leadership

■ A leader is a human like you. Sometimes you also

experience failures. But what makes it laudable is when
you take the initiative to reflect from your failures and
work to conquer them.
 Some factors that cause failures in
Leadership.
■ Selfishness, self- ■ Lack of dedication/
centeredness sincerity
■ Pessimism ■ Dishonesty/corruption
■ Passivity(inactive/not ■ Immorality
resourceful) ■ Conceitedness/
■ Insecurity boastfulness
■ Recognition seeker
Servant Leadership
■ Leadership is termed as “Servant Leadership”

■ A Leader who humbled Himself to serve His disciples

especially when He performed the “washing of the feet”
symbolizes humility and humbleness of Christ.
 Ten Principles of Servant leadership

1. Listening
 The servant leader seeks to identify the will of a group and
help clarify that will, seeks to listen receptively to what is
being said.
2. Empathy
 Strives to understand and empathize with others. People
need to be accepted and recognized for their special and
unique spirits.
3. Healing
 The potential for healing one’s self and others whereby
many people have broken spirits and have suffered
from a variety of emotional hurts.
4. Awareness
 Aids the servant leader in understanding issues that
involve ethics and values and view most situations from
a more integrated and holistic position.
5. Persuasion
 Reminds servant leaders to give primary reliance
on persuasion rather than positional authority in
making decisions within an organization
6. Conceptualization
 Abilities to “dream great dreams.” the ability to look
at a problem (or an organization) from a
conceptualizing perspective means that one must
think beyond day-to-day realities with sensible and
functional ideas.
7. Foresight
 Enables to understand the lessons and events from
the past, the realities and phenomena of the
present, and the likely impact of a decision for the
future.
8. Stewardship
 Prioritizes the needs of others and emphasizes the
use of openness and persuasion rather than
control.
9. Commitment to the Growth
 Makes servant leaders believe that people have
an essential value beyond their concrete
contributions as workers thereby the servant
leader is deeply committed to the growth of
each individual.
10. Building Community
 Suggests that true community can be created
among those who work in businesses and other
institutions.