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"The servant-leader is servant first...

It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first.

The conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead...

The difference manifest itself in the care taken by the servant-first to make sure that other people's highest priority needs are being served."

 

                                ~Robert Greenleaf

Leadership/Advocacy Experience

Extracurricular Activity:

  • Emerging Leader 2018-2019 with The International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors (IAMFC)

  • Serve on the Task Force for Older Adults for the Association for Adult Development and Aging

  • Facilitator of Death over Dinner’s “Let’s have dinner and talk about death”

  • Help Counselor Education staff during events and interviews

  • Plan socials and events for cohort members and colleagues

  • Crew and pacer for an ultra-marathon runner

 

Service to Counseling Honor Society:

  • Founding member and President of Sigma Epsilon Upsilon at Southeastern University in 2012.

  • Helped with set up during a welcome week CSI Beta chapter’s social event. 

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Service to Profession:

  • Help coordinate crisis response to suicide in a school

  • Volunteer during Pulse tragedy for victims, families, and media personnel, both in Orland & Gainesville

  • Founding member of UF Counselor Education YouTube channel, specifically supervision videos

  • Mentor to Master and Doctoral students

  • Raise awareness and advocate through media interviews and community outreach

  • Substitute for graduate counseling course

  • Guest speaker for pharmacists in training about the implications of counseling and substance abuse

  • Consult with the Crisis Intervention Training staff at the Alachua Crisis Center about dementia, suicide, and, substance abuse. 

My Leadership and Advocacy Theory & Practice

I am a servant leader though my “ability to influence a group of toward the achievment of a vision or set of goals” (Robbins & Judge, 2010, p. 326). I take an integrative approach to leadership and advocacy through the combination of trait, behavioral, transactional, transformation, and contingency theories.

 

My personal traits based on the big-five OCEAN include extroversion, conscientiousness, openness, and overall my emotional intelligence is high in empathy. These traits enable me to establish a vision, communicate, and inspire others to accomplish their desired change.  Leadership at its core is dealing with change, and change is inevitable.  I believe change is the only constant and can take place through initiating structure and having consideration for individuals; this is how I integrate a behavioral perspective of leadership. 

 

Building on trait and behavioral theories of leadership, I believe that the Path-Goal theory embraces flexibility based on the situation, environment, and employee characteristics (House, 1996).  The path-goal model has four leadership styles to enhance change: Directive, Supportive, Participative, and Action-Oriented.  I choose to combine supportive and participative leadership styles.  I accomplish this through concern for the wellbeing of individuals, creating a non-toxic work environment, and I have empathy and respect for others and their ideas. 

 

Individuals are participants in my leadership style though my encouragement of their input on decisions, and inquiring about their thoughts, feelings, opinions, and suggestions for improvement. Taken from West, Osborn, & Bubenzer’s (2003) leadership model for counselor educators I strive to be aware and have intentionality within the context, develop a vision, and take action.  By offering respect and consideration for individual's and their ideas allows them to take an active role in the change process and accomplishment of their goals. 

10 Principles of Servant Leadership

  1. Listening

  2. Empathy

  3. Healing

  4. Awareness

  5. Persuasion

6.  Conceptualization

7.  Foresight

8.  Stewardship

9.  commitment to 

     Growth

10. Building  

     Community

A Relational Model of Leadership in

Counseling & Counselor Education

Figure 1 is from

Chang, Barrio Minton, Dixon, Myers, & Sweeney (2012)

References & Resources

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  • Chang, C. Y., Minton, C. A. B., Dixon, A. L., Myers, J. E., & Sweeney, T. J. (Eds.). (2012). Professional counseling excellence through leadership and advocacy. Taylor & Francis. New York, NY.

  • Gibson, D. M., Dollarhide, C. T., & McCallum, L. J. (2010). Nontenured assistant professors as American Counseling Association division presidents: The new look of leadership in counseling. Journal of Counseling and Development, 88, 285–292.

  • Greenleaf, R. K. (1970a). The servant as leader. Retrieved from www.greenleaf.org

  • Greenleaf, R. K. (1970b). What is servant leadership? Retrieved from https://www.greenleaf.org/what-is-servant-leadership/

  • Greenleaf, R. K. (1998). The power of servant-leadership. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.

  • Greenleaf, R. K. (2003). In H. Beazley, C. L. Spears, & J. Beggs (Eds.), The servant-leader

  • Greenleaf, R. K. (2004). A life of servant leadership. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.

  • House, R. J. (1971). A path-goal theory of leader effectiveness. Administrative Science Quarterly, 16, 321–339.

  • House, R. J. (1996). A path-goal theory of leadership: Lessons, legacy, and reformulated theory. The Leadership Quarterly, 7, 323–352.

  • Robbins, S. P., & Judge, T. A. (2010). Organizational behavior (14th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

  • West, J. D., Osborn, C. J., & Bubenzer, D. L. (2003a). Dimensions of leadership in the counseling profession. In J. D. West, C. J. Osborn, & D. L. Bubenzer, Leaders and legacies: Contributions to the profession of counseling (pp. 3–21). New York: Brunner/Routledge.within: A transformative path (pp. 39–40). Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press.

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