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Spears The Spears Center  \nWe are experiencing a rapid shift in many businesses and not-for-profit organizations—away from the more traditional autocratic and hierarchical models of leadership and toward servant leadership as a way of being in relationship with others. Servant leadership seeks to involve others in decision making, is strongly based in ethical and caring behavior, and enhances the growth of workers while improving the caring and quality of organizational life. This article examines a set of ten characteristics of the servant leader that are of critical importance. They are: listening, empathy, healing, awareness, persuasion, conceptualization, foresight, stewardship, commitment to the growth of people, and building community. This piece was originally published in 2000 in Volume 8, Issue 3 of Concepts and Connections, the newsletter of the National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs. It is reprinted here with permission.  \nOur fundamental understanding of character has much to do with the essential traits exhibited by a person. In recent years there has been a growing interest in the nature of character and character education, based upon a belief that positive character traits can be both taught and learned. Many people today are familiar with the Character Counts!(sm) program of the Josephson Institute of Ethics. That program has been adopted by a number of schools and communities nationwide and teaches core values which they call“Six Pillars of Character.” Those six particular character values are: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship.  \nThe nature of character and its relationship to leaders has also taken on increased significance in recent years. A number of noted leadership authors have looked at issues of a leader’s character. James Hillman (1996), in The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling, describes the “invisible source of personal consistency, for which  \nThe Journal of Virtues & Leadership, Vol. 1 Iss. 1, 2010, 25-30.  \n© 2010 School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship, Regent University  \nSpears/JOURNAL OF VIRTUES & LEADERSHIP 26  \nI am using the word `habit,’ psychology today calls character. Character refers to deep structures of personality that are particularly resistant to change”(p. 260) .  \nThe literature on leadership includes a number of different listings of character traits as practiced by leaders. I particularly like Warren Bennis’s (1989) short list as contained in his book, On Becoming a Leader, in which he identifies,“vision, inspiration, empathy and trustworthiness” as key characteristics of effective leaders (p. 140) . Much of the leadership literature includes as an implicit assumption the belief that positive characteristics can-and-should be encouraged and practiced by leaders. Robert K. Greenleaf, the originator of the term, servant leadership, is someone who thought and wrote a great deal about the nature of servant leadership and character.  \nServant Leadership and Character  \nThe servant-leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. The best test is: do those served grow as persons: do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? And, what is the effect on the least privileged in society; will they benefit, or, at least, not be further deprived? (Greenleaf, 1977/2002, p. 27)  \nWith that definition in 1970, retired AT&T executive Robert K. Greenleaf (1904-1990) coined the term servant leadership and launched a quiet revolution in the way in which we view and practice leadership. Three decades later the concept of servant leadership is increasingly viewed as an ideal leadership form to which untold numbers of people and organizations aspire. In fact, we are witnessi","cbCaiqV1ExFkrilP","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqV1ExFkrilP","pdf",53441,"English","# Servant Leadership and Character\n## The servant-leader’s core definition\n## Origins and development of servant leadership\n# Ten Characteristics of a Servant Leader\n## Listening\n## Empathy\n## Healing\n## Awareness\n## Persuasion\n## Conceptualization\n## Foresight\n## Stewardship\n## Commitment to people’s growth\n## Building community","[{\"question\":\"What ten characteristics does the servant leader emphasize?\",\"answer\":\"The document lists listening, empathy, healing, awareness, persuasion, conceptualization, foresight, stewardship, commitment to the growth of people, and building community.\"}]","Character and Servant Leadership - Ten Characteristics of Effective, Caring Leaders | PDF",1789872043,15]