Emerging Innovations in Servant-Leadership: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

1. Barbra Kingsley Servant-leadership Emerging Innovations in Servant-Leadership: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

2. Servant-Leadership “I see it as something latent in the individual to be fulfilled. It is the seed of what is uniquely each person. Providing the conditions for its germination, emergence, and growth is the search” (Greenleaf, 2003, p. 115).

3. Committing to the Growth of Others • Servant-leaders grow through the sharpened judgment that comes from authentic interaction with others (p. 76). • Followers grow through the interaction, attention, and guidance provided by the servant-leader.

4. Servant-Leadership: A Self-Replicating Cycle

5. What is uniquely in each person? Skills Strengths Who we are What makes us special Talents Gifts

6. Honoring what is uniquely us: A role for MBTI • Identifies what is “uniquely us” • Identifies the basic orientation for how we deal with the world • Honors that we are different in how we choose to make meaning • Spears & When you look at the picture, what do you see?

7. What are your preferences? I/E • Introversion • Intuition • Thinking • Judging • Extraversion • Sensing • Feeling • Perceiving N/S T/F J/P

8. MBTI: The basics • Identifies our basic preferences for interacting in the world • Designed to help individuals understand how they relate to the world • Created not to categorize but to recognize individual gifts • Spears David Kristin Susan Mom Alex Me

9. Servant-leadership: Protect and grow what is unique in each of us

10. MBTI expands our awareness and foresight • Our preferences can affect what we see • …and can limit our ability to address all sides of the issue • By engaging those with different preferences • …we see more, anticipate more, and experience more!

11. MBTI helps strengthen the “whole” • Allowing others to do things differently • Creating a place for creative tension between approaches • Using individual preferences to strengthen the whole

12. MBTI allows us to authentically honor others • Recognizing that there are different ways of being and seeing • Honoring what makes each person unique • Allowing people to use their gifts instead of stifling them • Growing autonomous beings and not “clones”

13. Each of us are unique, but woven together we’re a rich fabric

14. Challenges • Ensuring that MBTI doesn’t lapse into categories or stereotypes • Using strong preferences yet developing weak ones • Allowing others to change and flourish

15. MBTI: Can enhance the cycle of servant-leadership Do those served grow as persons; do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants (Greenleaf, 1977, p. 27).

16. References • Greenleaf, R.K. (2003). The servant leader within. New York: Paulist Press. • Greenleaf, R. K. (1977). Servant leadership. New York: Paulist Press. • Lewis, R. & Spears, L. (n.d.) . Myers-Briggs and Servant-leadership. Retrieved on 1 March, 2010, from • http://jesuitnet.blackboard.com/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_2_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_4873_1%26url%3D • Hicks, Edward. Noah’s Ark. 1846. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. Wikipedia: Edward Hicks. Web. 1 March 2010. • Weaving Images : • http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.blackcatweavery.com/11-weaving2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.blackcatweavery.com/progression.htm&usg=__s667uv7rLVz-yOjhiiL_6Hb6ncs=&h=300&w=400&sz=53&hl=en&start=153&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=gU9bUUryuDMp3M:&tbnh=93&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dweaving%26start%3D144%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26ndsp%3D18%26tbs%3Disch:1