Week 5 Dq1 Servant Leadership and other Leadership
Servant Leadership
focuses on serving others, putting their needs first, and empowering them to reach their full potential. (Northouse, 2022, p.323)
Transformational Leadership
is similar in that transformational leaders aim to transform their followers into better individuals and leaders. They believe in inspiring and motivating followers by creating a vision and encouraging innovation and
creativity. (Northouse, 2022, p.239) An example of this would be a new principal who started at one of our rural schools. They were an average school with average parental involvement and average scores. Within two years she worked with the school stakeholders to create a new vision. She moved teachers to positions that better suited their abilities and potential. She worked with everyone to create an atmosphere of excitement and success where parental involvement is strong and academic success was raised. She was moved to a new school that was underperforming and in just a few months has transformed parent involvement, behavior, and has a new view of what their future can be.
Transactional Leadership
involves a reward style based on performance. (Northouse, 2022, p.240) Performance is more important than the needs of the organization. This is the opposite of
Servant Leadership
in which the leader provides
a collaborative atmosphere instead of a competitive one. An example of this is the leader that rewards those teachers who have the highest test scores. Nothing is done to help everyone improve their scores. The idea is competition for rewards not working
together to grow everyone to reach success.
Another leadership approach,
Laissez-Faire
Leadership takes a hands-off approach. Followers are given little to no guidance or support, and there is nothing in place to support the needs of followers nor anything to assist them in reaching their potential. (Northouse, 2022, p.252) This is different than compared with the
Servant Leadership
approach. An example of this would be the retiring principal. With some principals who are retiring, they take this style leadership because they just want to be done and retire. They are no longer committed to the success of the school. This
