Overview of Servant Leadership and Transformational Leadership

Academic pharmacy continues to evolve quickly. External factors including interprofessional education or enhanced learning environments as well as changes to accreditation standards, scope expansion of practice and research funding availability have caused major shifts.1-5 It requires effective leadership from leaders both inside and outside an institution in order to successfully support faculty members, students and staff members alike.

Leaders face the difficult challenge of aligning institution-wide goals with employee values when considering promotions and tenure decisions, including promotions of promotions for staff who require changes due to promotions/tenure decisions. Since 1970s both Servant Leadership and Transformational Leadership styles have proven their abilities in dealing with change; we will explore both to ascertain which type best reflects academic pharmacy.

Servant Leadership

Following is text from an article we recently wrote regarding Servant Leadership.

Selfless and compassionate leadership that prioritizes both individuals and organizations alike is often described as servant leadership. Effective servant leaders possess excellent listening skills, high empathy levels, the capacity to help others develop further as well as strong persuasion techniques with large mental capacity capacities. Servant leadership produces highly engaged employees with deep conviction in its ethics, creating an engaged work force and dedicated employees alike.

However, its effects may lead to too much attention being focused on individuals instead of goals of the business and results; developing this concept takes time, so may not apply in all companies – however leaders who practice true servanthood must demonstrate an ability to live without any sense of egos – an unusual trait among leaders!

Servant leadership embodies moral and emotional intelligence while participating in decision making processes to further an objective that exceeds profit growth – such as creating sustainable communities or making an impactful global difference.

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Transformational Leadership

This brief text on transformational leadership draws heavily from an in-depth article with more details.

Transformational leadership is an approach to management that uses transformation as its cornerstone, inducing change throughout an organisation and its workforce. Team member expectations and values become something more effective and powerful, ultimately contributing towards its overall goals of attaining high performance and attaining success.

Transformational leaders work toward this end through various transformational techniques within companies as well as between individual employees working within them. This style of leading transforms both companies as a whole as well as employees themselves – inducing transformation both inside them as well as among team members themselves.

This type of leadership builds people up while helping attain high standards of performance for them so as to reach success – building people for this type of leader can transform what might otherwise remain hidden or ignored within organisations – something the conventional forms don’t achieve; transformational leaders help transform.

This type of leadership builds people together enabling individuals achieve great standards of performance to help reach success faster while building people up into something powerful or useful than before!

Transformation occurs under the leadership of transformational leaders who serve as models that others follow. Transformational leaders set an example in morality and adaptability while challenging current conditions through constant improvement and challenge.

Transformative leadership focuses on forging close bonds of trust among your team members who believe in you and trust in what you can provide them with. When executed effectively, transformational leadership creates greater employee engagement than its alternatives.

Sir Richard Branson is well known as one of the founders of Virgin Group and Lee Iacocca was previously CEO at Chrysler – two examples of transformational leaders with considerable notoriety.

Transformational leadership can be defined in several different ways; you may wish to refer back to this article for more in-depth coverage and details regarding transformational leadership.

Difference Between Servant Leadership and Transformational Leadership

Although Servant Leadership and Transformational Leadership share similar aspects, they represent two different styles of leadership with clear differences that distinguish one from the other. Below are a few key Distinctions between them.

Prioritized Goal: Servant leadership seeks to meet the needs of others while transformational leadership inspires and guides followers towards reaching their fullest potential.

Approach: Servant-leaders place more of a focus on building relationships, collaboration and teamwork while transformative leaders adopt more of a visionary stance by setting goals and motivating others towards reaching them.

Goal: The primary aim of servant leadership is to foster an environment which facilitates employee advancement and growth. Meanwhile, transformational leadership aims at developing a common vision to facilitate changes within an organization.

Leadership behavior: Conduct of Leadership Servant leaders tend to exhibit more modesty and kindness while transformational leaders tend to become more charismatic and visionary over time.

Individualized Attention: Both Servant Leadership and Transformational Leadership styles emphasize the value of personalized focus and feedback for followers; servant leadership prioritizes these elements more heavily while transformational leadership puts more focus on meeting business vision and goals.

Ethical behavior: Both Servant Leadership and Transformational Leadership models rely heavily on moral conduct as part of their foundation; with servant leadership placing more importance on ethical conduct as an elemental principle than transformational.

Servant Leadership and Transformational Leadership can both lead to improved organization efficiency, increased satisfaction with work life and greater employee dedication and engagement. Knowing their differences allows leaders to select an ideal approach depending on the circumstances at hand and become more efficient leaders overall.

Which leadership style is more effective?

Determining which form of Servant Leadership and Transformational Leadership is superior can be tricky. Both Servant Leadership and Transformational Leadership may prove effective depending on circumstances and settings; therefore, the type of leadership most suited for any situation or environment will ultimately depend on needs, objectives, traits of followership and the demands placed upon its leader.

An alternative form of servant leadership might be more suited for companies that value teamwork and collaboration while placing strong emphasis on personal demands. Furthermore, this style may prove most successful within businesses that prioritize ethics and social responsibility while creating connections within their staff members.

Transformational leadership approaches tend to work best with businesses that are experiencing substantial transformation or are focused on accomplishing certain ideas or goals. They’re ideal for organizations requiring motivational employee incentives for reaching an agreed upon target or seeking innovative means of transformation and transformation.

The most successful style of leadership will depend upon an organization’s individual requirements and goals as well as its strengths and weaknesses, the followers they lead and any possible modifications necessary. Leaders need to recognize all strengths and weaknesses associated with various styles before adapting their approach accordingly for maximum impact on both company operations and followership.

Conclusion

Academic pharmacy leadership remains contentious. Both Servant Leadership and Transformational Leadership possess different required abilities that must be nurtured to thrive successfully in academic pharmacy environments. Transformational leadership provides overall vision and objectives while serving as a mentor. A servant leader takes charge from behind to assist individual employees develop within an organization while the transformational leader oversees this goal in helping individuals meet them.

Ideal servant leadership should promote faculty member development by encouraging innovation and scholarship in teaching; additionally advancing pharmacists’ abilities to show empathy towards patients while inspiring healthier habits for all parties involved. Transformational leaders are essential in leading an organization when there is immense external pressure to do so.

Transformational leaders focus on inspiring intellectual curiosity, innovation and creativity within faculty members in order to prepare them to excel in tenure and promotion processes. Academic pharmacy leaders should determine which model of leadership best matches up with their specific environment as well as individual capabilities when choosing one of these leadership styles.