What is Servant Leadership

We made this short video to help leaders and colleagues at Barclaycard to learn more about Servant Leadership. Our people loved it so we decided to share it with everyone.

Let us know what you think, leave a comment, share your story about leadership in your organisation or team. Enjoy!

About Servant Leadership:

Servant Leadership is a participative form of leadership that shares some of the characteristics of transformational leadership. It blends a concern for transformation at an organisational level with individualised consideration.

It emphasises the need to replace self-interest with service to others as the basis for using power. Servant Leadership is opposed to the command-and-control type of autocratic leadership. There is now a clear consensus among modern management theorists that autocratic leadership needs to be replaced by leadership that empowers workers. In today’s environment, command-and-control leadership no longer works, because leaders must earn people’s respect and trust.

For us at Barclaycard, Servant Leadership:

- Is about influence rather than power and control
- Is about inspiration rather than position and title
- Is about focusing on others’ strengths rather than weaknesses
- Is about listening rather than giving orders
- Is about humility rather than pride, ‘ the big picture rather than self interest
- Is about long-range benefits rather than short-term profits
- Is about creating new futures rather than maintaining the status quo

[eplouis]

Please add chapters to this video, it has great info.

[kendalfletcher]

Perfect breakdown that describes myself and what I’m looking to bring i to the workforce thank you!

[spencer]

“Among you, it must not be like that. On the contrary, whoever among you wants to be a leader must become your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave! For the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve — and to give his life as a ransom for many.””
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[ryanweaver]

servant leadership and stake holders and safety, security, rights and productivity... lenses and contexts... the complex understanding of markets and sectors over time and space... insights and humans...

#LoveEVICTShate

[claymcdee]

Hello there! Great content! We'd like to share this video with the leaders in our organization. Thanks for this.

[sagarkulal]

Good content, but the background music was distracting.

[katiegardiner]

This infact won’t help me for my college final on leadership

[ahmadsaleh]

bro the music in the background is too loud I can't focus with the concept. Disappointed

[AdrianCastro-fCMO]

H Doc Martin, I want to find out how I can invite you to speak at our networking event - Servant Leader Networking for Officers and Directors is an online event. It lets you discover in less than 90 minutes, how you can start deploying new online models for getting new members, avid sponsors and recurring revenue.

Who It’s For

The Officers & Directors Servant Leader Networking Event is for you if:

1) You are a current or past OFFICER or DIRECTOR or MEMBER OF THE BOARD of your Chamber of Commerce, Business Association, Foundation or NGO.

2) You are looking to add more members and corporate sponsors and to add recurring revenue for your organization.

3) You are are a Corporate Officer seeking to know and sponsor servant leaders who are already conducting global online events.

[hansbleuer]

Hier geht es um den Unterschied zwischen
-Tun (aktiv)
und
-Herbeiführen (passiv).

Ein Vorgesetzter/Chef kann einen Unterstellten/Mitarbeiter
-Anweisen, das Fenster zu öffnen
oder
-Dafür sorgen, dass er das Fenster öffnet.
Servant Leadership ist woke naive Interpretation des Zwecks von Unternehmen:
Go woke
Go broke
Go smoke.
RIP

[claudiamanta]

What’s with that carrot motivation?
And lose ‘servant’ part as we need to dispense with the servitude concept altogether. As nobody is the leader’s servant, nor is the leader anybody’s servant. Grow up into mental adulthood.