Servant Leadership Model Of Relational Leadership

James McGregor Burns was one of the first people to come up with a definition of transformational leadership (Bromley). Transformational leadership is great, but Burns made a quote in his book Leadership that should be recognized, “The aim of leadership is not to just reach a goal, but also transform leaders and followers into better, more self-actualized leaders” (Komives and Wagner). This quote really explains what leadership means to me, not only as a person leading a group, but also learning how to follow as well.
As a leader on campus, there is always a time where you learn to discover your own way of leading a group. As someone who has been involved in student leadership, a Resident Assistant and an officer of a Panhellenic organization,

The servant leadership model is about serving the people and the organization first, rather than yourself. This leadership method allows people in the organization to come together as a group and work to make a difference together. The relational leadership model is “attempting to accomplish change or make a difference to benefit the common good” (Daft). This leadership style is group oriented and allows people in the group to be individuals and for the leader to understand those individual traits, but then to use them to develop one cohesive group that is able to accomplish many goals. These two theories put together helped form my own personal leadership style and has allowed me to expand on my own definition of

This level of advocacy for my residents comes from the heart and truly loving my residents for who they are. As an advocate for my first year students, I emphasize their potential and all of the great things they are getting involved with as first year students, such as, fraternity and sorority life, engineering clubs, acapella groups, residence life and so much more. Advocating for residents to become part of a community is very important because this allows my residents to find a home at UCF, whether it is in the Department of Housing and Residence Life or another group on campus. Looking into the future, my role as an advocate will change going into my living learning community and working with upperclassmen. My students in my living learning community will not only need me to be an advocate for them as diverse individuals, but they also get to see me as an advocate for certain issues. For my upperclassmen who are not a part of the living learning community, I am an advocate for them when they need to me to be there for them. I will present myself as an aid to them and allow them to decide how involved they want me to be in their time living in on campus