Emerging Innovations in Servant-Leadership: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

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Emerging Innovations in Servant-Leadership
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

• Barbra Kingsley
• Servant-leadership

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Servant-Leadership
I see it as something latent in the individual
to be fulfilled. It is the seed of what is
uniquely each person. Providing the conditions
for its germination, emergence, and growth is the
search (Greenleaf, 2003, p. 115).
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Committing to the Growth of Others

• Servant-leaders grow through the sharpened
  judgment that comes from authentic interaction
  with others (p. 76).
• Followers grow through the interaction,
  attention, and guidance provided by the
  servant-leader.

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Servant-Leadership A Self-Replicating Cycle
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What is uniquely in each person?
Skills
Strengths
Who we are
What makes us special
Talents
Gifts
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Honoring what is uniquely us A role for MBTI

• Identifies what is uniquely us
• Identifies the basic orientation for how we deal
  with the world
• Honors that we are different in how we choose to
  make meaning
• Spears

When you look at the picture, what do you see?
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What are your preferences?
I/E

• Introversion
• Intuition
• Thinking
• Judging

• Extraversion
• Sensing
• Feeling
• Perceiving

N/S
T/F
J/P
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MBTI The basics

• Identifies our basic preferences for interacting
  in the world
• Designed to help individuals understand how they
  relate to the world
• Created not to categorize but to recognize
  individual gifts
• Spears

David
Kristin
Susan
Mom
Me
Alex
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Servant-leadership Protect and grow what is
unique in each of us
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MBTI expands our awareness and foresight

• Our preferences can affect what we see
• and can limit our ability to address all sides
  of the issue
• By engaging those with different preferences
• we see more, anticipate more, and experience
  more!

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MBTI helps strengthen the whole

• Allowing others to do things differently
• Creating a place for creative tension between
  approaches
• Using individual preferences to strengthen the
  whole

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MBTI allows us to authentically honor others

• Recognizing that there are different ways of
  being and seeing
• Honoring what makes each person unique
• Allowing people to use their gifts instead of
  stifling them
• Growing autonomous beings and not clones

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Each of us are unique, but woven together were a
rich fabric
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Challenges

• Ensuring that MBTI doesnt lapse into categories
  or stereotypes
• Using strong preferences yet developing weak ones
• Allowing others to change and flourish

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MBTI Can enhance the cycle of servant-leadership

• Do those served grow as persons do they, while
  being served, become healthier, wiser, freer,
  more autonomous, more likely themselves to become
  servants
• (Greenleaf, 1977, p. 27).

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References

• Greenleaf, R.K. (2003). The servant leader
  within. New York Paulist Press.
• Greenleaf, R. K. (1977). Servant leadership. New
  York Paulist Press.
• Lewis, R. Spears, L. (n.d.) . Myers-Briggs and
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