PRINCIPLES OF SERVANT
LEADERSHIP: STEWARDSHIP
& FORESIGHT
MISSION VISION CORE VALUES
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SESSION 9
STEWARDSHIP
Dr. Shivani Chaudhry
School of Business and Management
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Ten Characteristics of a Servant Leader
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Menti Exercise
What do you understand by Stewardship?
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STEWARDSHIP
Stewardship is derived from the word “steward,” a term used to
describe someone who cares for or manages people, processes,
events, things, etc.
Robert Greenleaf 's view of all institutions was one in which CEOs,
staffs, and trustees all played significant roles in holding their
institutions in trust for the greater good of society.
Servant-leadership, like stewardship, assumes first and
foremost a commitment to serving the needs of others.
It also emphasizes the use of openness and persuasion rather than
control.
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Video
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• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bih971
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• Taking responsibility for the actions and performance
of your team.
• Use of openness and persuasion, rather than control.
• Partnership rather than patriarchy, and empowerment
instead dependency.
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• Stewardship requires the
willingness to be
accountable for the
well-being of the larger
organization by operating
in service, rather than in
control, to those around us.
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Stewardship
• Stewardship is the careful and responsible
management of something entrusted to one’s
care – including power.
• Being accountable for the role team members play in
your organization.
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Stewardship
• Lead by
Example-Demonstrate
the values and behaviors
that you want to see in
others.
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5 Ways good leaders are stewards of
power
• Servant-leaders play down power structures.
• Servant-leaders are generous with knowledge and expertise.
• Servant-leaders are prudent with carrots.
• Servant-leaders are prudent with sticks.
• Servant-leaders eliminate indispensability by developing
people.
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How to Inculcate Stewardship
Personal vision: Clarity of vision and commitment through
action i.e. know what you are trying to accomplish.
Personal mastery: Continual growth and enhancement of
abilities and capabilities.
Develop Mentoring: Paying attention and responding to
the needs of others.
Risk-taking and experimentation: Successful stewards
must display courageousness through openness.
Valuing diversity : Value different inputs/views and people.
Creating positive work environment
Giving acknowledgment
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To be an Effective Steward:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2GjU
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Case on Stewardship : Taj Hotel Terror
Attack
• Taj Hotel terror attack has become a massive psychology case study in
Harvard.
• Not ONE Taj employee abandoned the hotel and ran away, but stayed
right through the attack. They helped the guests escape and, in the
process, many employees died. It confounded psychologists!
• The following link is worth watching to visualise the true FORESIGHT &
STEWARDSHIP in Taj Hotel Employees:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=vQGz1YRqBPw
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Reflective Activity
• How can you adopt stewardship in your life as a
student? Mention any two examples.
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SESSION 10
FORESIGHT
Dr. Tanupriya
Department of Languages
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Elicit responses Using Menti.com
WHAT IS FORESIGHT?
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FORESIGHT
• Foresight is closely related to conceptualization, the
ability to foresee the likely outcome of a situation is hard
to define, but easier to identify.
• Foresight is a characteristic that enables the
servant leader to understand the lessons from
the past, the realities of the present, and the
likely consequence of a decision for the future.
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FORESIGHT
It is rooted within the
intuitive mind. Foresight is
an unexplored area in
leadership studies, but it
deserves careful attention
for a better functioning and
mapping developments.
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Elicit responses using Menti.com
Does intuition come from
foresight?
or
Foresight comes from Intuition?
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Is Intuition Always Right?
• Intuition is the ability to understand something
instinctively without the need for conscious
reasoning.
• The answer to the question is yes and no, but with
practice, one can learn to assess their intuitive
experiences and identify when they are more likely
to be right.
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Deeply rooted
within intuitive mind
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This is similar to “chicken and egg”
argument
Both perpetually flow from each other.
The more foresight one practices,
the more intuitive their
decision-making becomes.
The more one relies on intuition,
the more foresight they practice
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5 Benefits of Foresight
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7 Ways to Cultivate Foresight
Diversify intentionally: Interaction with people different
perspectives and different in age, gender, race, religion, national
origin and worldview.
Listen deeply: Improving listening skills is important, as every
conversation and discourse might contain some hint about the
future.
Read widely: Reading helps to have a deep expertise on a subject,
and also updates with the unfamiliar trends and policies.
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Think systemically: Systematic thinking is important step to
cultivate foresight as good servant-leaders hone their skills in
“systems thinking” so they can better foresee the future,
especially the likely consequences of their decisions, allowing
them to create the future rather than respond to it.
Predict habitually: Ability to build predictive muscles, by
making regular and well-considered predictions, also helps to
anticipate the risks when testing them against reality.
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Network constantly: Networking involves flow of
information and the wider a servant-leader’s network is, the
farther into the future it can hear. Servant-leaders use their
networks to pick up and transmit important information about
what is ahead.
Live technologically: Updating with the current technology
and be technologically advanced. Understanding the current
trends and how advanced technology forms the future. To
improve foresight one must stay abreast of changes in the
technology.
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Elicit responses through Menti Poll
To what extent do you use foresight,
put in a percentage?
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COMPONENTS OF FORESIGHT
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Head: Logic and Intellect
Foresight requires rigorous analytical review of the
past performance drivers and the current
business realities.
Foresight identifies potential destinations from the
lessons of the past and a sound understanding
of the present.
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Heart: Emotions and Dreams
Foresight requires listening carefully to the other experienced
and concerned people involved in the organization.
Listening carefully to the team and stakeholders is the best way to
demonstrate your care for them and value their input.
Individuals working in an organization are the best source of ideas
on what future projects should be explored. So, when it comes to
start moving towards the them, more people will follow the leader if
their input has been acknowledged and valued.
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Gut Instinct
• Gut instinct, is the
immediate
understanding of a
situation, without
conscious reasoning.
• There's no need to think
it over or get another
opinion.
• It arises as a feeling
within one’s body that
only they can experience.
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Gut
• Foresight requires leaders to draw on their experience, intuition and
courage to call out the destination. To lead, one is expected to foresee
the unforeseeable.
• One is expected to think about possibilities that no one else has
considered and then have the guts to tell the team, “We are going
where no man or woman has gone before.” This is the scary,
fun, and most distinctive quality of great leaders.
• They have the courage of their convictions and they are willing to take
the personal risk to lead the team towards the vision. They defend the
vision when it comes under predictable attack from those skeptics and
naysayers.
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VIDEOS
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF8Vj
-N0sTk&ab_channel=ForwardEngagement
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk3M
sbi-xZc&ab_channel=MatthewStranach
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Foresight in Recruitment policy of Taj
Hotel
• Taj pin pointed 3 recruitment strategies :
1) Taj did not recruit from big cities , they recruited from smaller cities
where traditional culture still holds strong.
2) They did not recruit toppers, they spoke to school masters to find out
who were most respectful of their parents, elders , teachers and others .
3) They taught their employees to be ambassadors of their guests to the
organisation not ambassadors of the company to their guests.
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Reflective Activity on Foresight
1. Write down 3 to 5 life changing events in past?
2. Analyse these events.
3. What patterns do you see?
Share it with each other and as you process this loud,
what does it inform you regarding your path forward in
life.
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REFERENCES
• https://peoplemanagingpeople.com/topics/what-it-really-takes-to-do-serva
nt-leadership/
• https://www.regent.edu/wpcontent/uploads/2020/12/Spears_Final.pdf
• https://www.regent.edu/wpcontent/uploads/2020/12/Spears_Final.pdf
• https://www.dailygood.org/story/447/the-10-gifts-of-a-servant-leader-larry-
spears/
• https://www.gonzaga.edu//media/Website/Documents/Academics/School-
of-Leadership-Studies/DPLS/IJSL/Vol-13/IJSL-Vol-13-01-Spears.ashx?la=e
n&hash=79A8A9F10FC7307D4C62880F46D02B3B58173919
• https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/servant-leadership.htm
• https://www.greenleaf.org/what-is-servant-leadership/
• https://www.futuresplatform.com/blog/5-benefits-systematic-foresight-activ
ity
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