Servant Leadership Style: What is it and What are the Benefits and Contrasts to Other Leadership Styles?
Journal: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Year: 2019

There are many identified styles of leadership and servant leadership is one that is growing and being widely accepted by many Fortune 500 companies. In the 1970s, Robert Greenleaf created this leadership term to describe leaders who influence and motivate others by building relationships and developing the skills of their followers and individual team members (Gill, 2015). In addition to the common key leadership characteristics possessed by most successful leaders, 10 additional major characte