Leadership Reflection: Inspiring Participation and Empowerment

This assignment is a reflective piece on leadership, specifically focusing on transformational servant leadership. The student explores how this leadership style inspires follower participation through charismatic influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration. The reflection details how the student demonstrates transformational servant leadership within their organization by motivating team members, aligning their goals with the organization's, and providing guidance. The definition and demonstration of service to others is discussed through the lens of a visionary role, emphasizing effective communication to align employees with the organization's mission. The student also shares their views on empowerment and the decision-making process, highlighting the importance of communication, stakeholder involvement, and feedback to enhance employee satisfaction and drive sustainable change. The paper references key literature to support the arguments presented.

Running head: REFLECTION ON LEADERSHIP
Reflection on leadership
Name of the student:
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How do you believe Transformational Servant Leadership inspires participation by
followers?
Transformational servant leadership possesses attribute that guide and inspire followers
to change and engage in work process. Transformational leadership have the four primary
behavioral characteristics of charismatic influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual
stimulation and invidualized consideration. Through this attribute, they transform the mind set of
followers and support them to participate for the fulfillment of organizational goals (Gregory
Stone, Russell, & Patterson, 2004).. Such leader-follower relationship thrives and success only
because leaders create an environment of trust where other members readily wish to participate
and contribute to organizational success. On the other hand, servant leadership supports works to
meet the needs of others. They are involved in developing people and giving them the skills
needed to gain credibility (Allen et al., 2016). Hence, transformational servant leadership both
inspires and prepare people to develop in their job role.
How do you demonstrate Transformational Servant Leadership within your organization?
In my organization, I demonstrate transformational servant leadership by means of
intrinsic motivation and development of my team members. While interacting with new team
members, my first focus is to share the vision and goals of the organization and explains their so
that they understand what is expected from them. The next strategy as a leader is to align their
own goal with that of the organization and stimulate them to engage in full activity by
developing sense of meaningfulness, choice and progress in them. I try to motivate them by
praising on their achievement and giving appreciation in front of everyone when a job is done
well. Secondly, I also act as a guide to them and always try to take feedback from them on a

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regular basis to understand the challenges they face in their work. Based on this interaction, I
support them to address their challenges and develop skills to achieve the goal of the
organization.
How do you define and demonstrate service to others?
I define and demonstrate service to other by taking on the role of the visionary. I
communicate with my team members to define the goals and purpose of the organization. By this
means, employees can make sense of what the organization is aiming to achieve. In this role, the
main focus is on effective communication process with employees so that they become aware of
the mission and purpose of the group and the interest of the participant in work is developed.
What are your views on empowerment and the decision-making process?
For me, decision-making process is facilitated by communication with key stakeholders
to identify the best interest of all. Hence, for me the goal of decision-making is to achieve good
for all and drive sustainable change in the organization. For empowering employees, the main
priority is to understand the factors that motivate employees and increase their satisfaction level
with the job. Communication also plays a key role in communicating high expectation to
employees and motivating them to achieve established goals of the organization. To empower
employees, I also take regular feedback from employees to understand their perception about job
(Choi et al., 2016). The purpose of this feedback is mainly to understand what employees expect
in the job and implement process to increase their sense of meaningfulness in workplace.

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Reference
Allen, G. P., Moore, W. M., Moser, L. R., Neill, K. K., Sambamoorthi, U., & Bell, H. S. (2016).
The role of servant leadership and transformational leadership in academic
pharmacy. American journal of pharmaceutical education, 80(7), 113.
Boies, K., Fiset, J., & Gill, H. (2015). Communication and trust are key: Unlocking the
relationship between leadership and team performance and creativity. The Leadership
Quarterly, 26(6), 1080-1094.
Choi, S. L., Goh, C. F., Adam, M. B. H., & Tan, O. K. (2016). Transformational leadership,
empowerment, and job satisfaction: the mediating role of employee
empowerment. Human resources for health, 14(1), 73.
Gregory Stone, A., Russell, R. F., & Patterson, K. (2004). Transformational versus servant
leadership: A difference in leader focus. Leadership & Organization Development
Journal, 25(4), 349-361.