LTP E 3-4:
Servant Leadership
as a Citizen
Rev 1 Sep 2015
Honor – Duty – Respect
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Training Objective
• Tasks:
– Report on successes and challenges of carrying out
personal servant leadership plan.
– Articulate the connection between values and ethical
leadership.
– Identify ways citizens can be servant leaders.
– Apply ethical servant leadership to a case.
• Condition: 50-minute classroom training session
• Standard: Successful completion of Ethics in Action LDRS
201 Final
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Servant Leadership
You have now had four classes on the definition of and
importance of servant leadership. We have talked about
the theme of the sophomore year—to serve.
Pair up with another cadet and discuss the following; then
be prepared to share with the whole group:
•How effective you were at carrying out your personal
servant leadership plan (or, how successful were you
at servant leadership this school year)?
•What were your successes or challenges?
•How would you connect the theme of serving others to
the three core values of Honor, Duty, and Respect?
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Servant Leadership
Discuss each question in small groups and
then as a whole:
*What is the connection between your values and
ethical leadership?
*What do you need to become a more effective,
ethical leader?
*What skills do you have or need to acquire?
*How can you help others be their “best selves”?
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Best Selves
You must believe that:
1. Every person has value and deserves respect
(Edmonds, 2014).
2. All people are capable of accomplishing much
when they are inspired by their leader
(Edmonds, 2014).
Edmonds, S. C. (2014). The culture engine: A framework for driving results, inspiring your employees, and
transforming your workplace. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
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Five Practices of Servant Leaders
1. “Clarify and reinforce” the need to serve others
(Edmonds, 2014, p. 67).
2. “Listen intently and observe closely” (Edmonds,
2014, p. 67).
3. “Act as selfless mentors” (Edmonds, 2014, p. 68).
4. “Demonstrate persistence” (Edmonds, 2014, p. 68).
5. “Lovingly hold themselves and others accountable for
their commitments” (Edmonds, 2014, p. 68).
Edmonds, S. C. (2014). The culture engine: A framework for driving results, inspiring your employees, and transforming
your workplace. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
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Respects
Others
Serves
Others
Builds
Community
ETHICAL
LEADERSHIP
Manifests
Honesty
Shows
Justice
(Northouse, 2000, p. 431)
Northouse, P. G. (2000). Leadership: Theory and practice (4th ed.). Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications.
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Service and Servant Leadership
For the past several years, Citadel cadets
on Leadership Day have performed
excellent service to the community.
The Citadel established this program to help
cadets to begin thinking about how they can
lead by serving others.
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Examples of Servant Leadership as a Citizen
Service
• Member of a
Community Watch
• Member of the PTA
• Volunteering at a soup
kitchen
• Donating money to a
charity
• Picking up litter when
you see it
Servant Leadership
• Community Watch
Captain
• Officer in the PTA
• Organizing a food drive to
stock a soup kitchen
• Chairing a fund raiser for
a charity
• Being the team leader of
a group on a beach
clean-up day
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Factual Information
Charleston County Community
Service Organizations
American Red Cross - helps those in need of assistance
Be a Mentor Initiative - connects kids with adult mentors
Bridge of Hope - offers afterschool programs for children, GED programs for adults
Charleston Jaycees - leadership development and community involvement
opportunities for young professionals
Charleston Miracle League - baseball teams for children with physical and mental
challenges
Charleston Peace - social and environmental activism group
Charleston Port and Seafarers’ Society - assisting international crews while they
are in port
Tricounty Blue Star Mothers - supporting America’s active troops and veterans
Windwood Farm Home for Children - therapeutic intervention for abused and
neglected boys
WINGS for Kids - social and emotional learning after school
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Group Activity: First Sergeant
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you
want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
—Abraham Lincoln
Discuss the following your small group and be
prepared to share:
If First Sergeants are there to serve others, not
themselves, how can a cadet in this position uphold
“the tradition” while remaining humble and
respectful?
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Applicability to
Post Graduation Life
• Servant leaders are ethical leaders who build
communities by advancing the collective good.
• As Citadel graduates, seek not just to serve but
to servant lead.
• “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask
what you can do for your country.”
–President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"The character that takes command in moments of crucial
choices has already been determined by a thousand other
choices made earlier in seemingly unimportant moments.
It has been determined by all the 'little' choices of the
past--by all those times when the voice of conscience was
at war with the voice of temptation, [which was]
whispering the lie that 'it really doesn't matter.' It has been
determined by all the day-to-day decisions made when life
seemed easy and crises seemed far away…”
– President Ronald Reagan
Reagan, R. W. (1993). The character that takes command. Retrieved from http://www.wisdomcommons.org/wisbits/
2126-the-character-that-takes-command
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Questions & Comments
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