{"id":6365,"date":"2022-04-20T12:06:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T12:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workwiseasia.com\/?p=6365"},"modified":"2022-04-20T12:06:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T12:06:53","slug":"how-can-i-be-a-servant-leader-breaktime-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workwiseasia.com\/?p=6365","title":{"rendered":"How can I be a servant leader? – Breaktime Breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

When we think of leadership, we usually think of politicians, executives, or bosses in our workplaces. But did you know that you are also considered a leader in your own way? In an episode<\/a><\/strong> of Breaktime Breakthrough<\/a> <\/strong>on Plus Network<\/a><\/strong>, organizational leader and coach Frances Acu talked about servant leadership <\/strong>and how we can lead, influence, and make an impact in other people\u2019s lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acu says that there are many different definitions of what a leader is, and that it is not only confined to one\u2019s title, power, authority or their popularity. However, she adds that not every leader is a manager and not every manager is a leader. <\/strong>Acu quotes author, speaker, and pastor John Maxwell, who said that \u201cleadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less.\u201d <\/em>Because everyone has some level of influence, then everyone is a leader.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to authors Ken Blanchard and Phil Hodges in their book Lead Like Jesus, \u201canytime we influence the thinking or behavior, or development of someone, we are a leader.\u201d <\/em>Blanchard and Hodges identified two types of leadership: organizational leadership,<\/strong> which are those who hold official positions and titles, and life role leadership<\/strong>, which is when we lead as a parent, spouse, sibling, child, and as a friend. And it is our life role leadership which lays the foundation<\/strong> for our organizational leadership.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acu adds that before we can lead others in the workplace<\/strong>, we first need to lead well at home. <\/strong>She shares her experience as a mother, which she considers to be a gift and responsibility to influence the way her children<\/strong> grow up. She understands that anything she does today will make an impact<\/strong> in their lives tomorrow. The way she interacts <\/strong>with them, talks<\/strong> to them, teaches <\/strong>them, loves<\/strong> them will all influence <\/strong>the kind of people they\u2019ll grow up to be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She quotes the book MOTIVATE by Peter and Deonna Tan Chi, which discusses eight important tips to successful parenting. The first tip, she said, is modeling, <\/strong>which is when children imitate their parents. <\/strong>While many parents tell their kids, \u201cDo what I say, not what I do,\u201d <\/strong>they know that their children will do that they do, not what they say.<\/strong> That\u2019s because the biggest way for parents to influence their kids is still to model the right way.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This may also be applied to the people around us. It\u2019s not the big things, but the small things <\/strong>that really make an impact in their lives.<\/strong> What we do on a daily basis, how we take care of our family, work with colleagues, interact with friends, and how we act to strangers <\/strong>will determine how we influence, lead others, and the impact <\/strong>that we can truly make in their lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this in mind, t\u2019s important that as leaders in our own right, our words and actions should be inspiring to others and should make a positive impact in their lives. For more stories about professionals, visit PLUS Network on  Facebook<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong>  Instagram<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> and  YouTube.<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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