Ask Before You Lead – How to be a Servant Leader

Recent articles and posts on Servant Leadership are intriguing to the point of where we now acknowledge as the future for leadership. Servant leadership is not a new concept, the phrase “servant leadership” was coined by Robert K. Greenleaf in The Servant as Leader, an essay that he first published in 1970. In that essay, Greenleaf said “The servant-leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first.” Wise words that are being adopted more and more as organisations look at positioning project leadership. The conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. The idea of servant leadership is to serve those and allow them to lead. Doing this more and more is focused on serving those that we lead rather than manage those that we lead?

That is all good and makes sense to build on the philosophy of leadership but should also be conscious on understanding the needs of those that we serve? Our experience of servant leadership has shown that we are great at demonstrating leadership values but maybe we don’t always appreciate or understand the style of leadership to be adopted. This has led us to the philosophy of ‘Ask Before You Lead’.

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