Week 10: Team and Servant Leadership
There is a common expression in sports, “while individuals may play the game, a team wins a championship.” This expression not only applies to teams in sports, but many businesses as well. It is through the collaborative efforts of a team, that individual talent becomes collective excellence. The benefit of teamwork is immeasurable. With teams, individuals come together to support one another. Likewise, servant leadership offers a similar leadership perspective with supportive relationships and environments. Although servant leadership and team leadership have their differences, both focus on joint participation toward improvements within leadership settings.
This week, you explore leadership perspectives related to team and servant leadership. You examine how both theories of leadership provide collaboration between a leader and his or her followers and consider how a leader’s effectiveness relates to the group’s reliance on one another for succes