Servant Leadership Challenges

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You portrayed well, the challenge you faced and about your new insight in the post. You know, even though the practice of servant leadership has many advantages, it is not prevalent due to many reasons. It is hard for the people to comprehend the concept of a leader being a servant. The trends in the work environment, the demands that come up on the practitioner and the type of the practice are some of the challenges to the practice of servant leadership (Heskett, 2013). I think a couple of these reasons prevail in your unit, that is why you find it hard to exercise the authority as a servant leader there. The staff there may be only familiar with the secular approach of authority. For example, the RN who kept violating the policy of the unit

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