1. LTP E 3-4: Servant Leadership as a Citizen
Rev 1 Sep 2015

2. Training Objective Tasks:
Report on successes and challenges of carrying out personal servant leadership plan.
Articulate the connection between values and ethical leadership.
Identify ways citizens can be servant leaders.
Apply ethical servant leadership to a case.
Condition: 50-minute classroom training session
Standard: Successful completion of Ethics in Action LDRS 201 Final

3. Applicability to Cadet Life Servant Leadership
You have now had four classes on the definition of and importance of servant leadership. We have talked about the theme of the sophomore year—to serve.
Pair up with another cadet and discuss the following; then be prepared to share with the whole group:
How effective you were at carrying out your personal servant leadership plan (or, how successful were you at servant leadership this school year)?
What were your successes or challenges?
How would you connect the theme of serving others to the three core values of Honor, Duty, and Respect?

4. Applicability to Cadet Life Servant Leadership
Discuss each question in small groups and then as a whole:
*What is the connection between your values and ethical leadership?
*What do you need to become a more effective, ethical leader?
*What skills do you have or need to acquire?
*How can you help others be their “best selves”?
What do you think Theodore Roosevelt meant when he said, “This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.” How about Winston Churchill when he said, “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

5. Applicability to Cadet Life Best Selves
You must believe that:
Every person has value and deserves respect (Edmonds, 2014).
All people are capable of accomplishing much when they are inspired by their leader (Edmonds, 2014).
Edmonds, S. C. (2014). The culture engine: A framework for driving results, inspiring your employees, and transforming your workplace. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

6. Five Practices of Servant Leaders
Applicability to Cadet Life
Five Practices of Servant Leaders
“Clarify and reinforce” the need to serve others (Edmonds, 2014, p. 67).
“Listen intently and observe closely” (Edmonds, 2014, p. 67).
“Act as selfless mentors” (Edmonds, 2014, p. 68).
“Demonstrate persistence” (Edmonds, 2014, p. 68).
“Lovingly hold themselves and others accountable for their commitments” (Edmonds, 2014, p. 68).
Edmonds, S. C. (2014). The culture engine: A framework for driving results, inspiring your employees, and transforming your workplace. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

7. ETHICAL LEADERSHIP Respects Others Serves Others Manifests Honesty
Builds Community
ETHICAL LEADERSHIP
Manifests Honesty
Shows Justice
Ethical leadership, which includes servant leadership, embraces many attributes of good citizenship as well as the core values of The Citadel.
(Northouse, 2000, p. 431)
Northouse, P. G. (2000). Leadership: Theory and practice (4th ed.). Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications.

8. Applicability to Cadet Life Service and Servant Leadership
For the past several years, Citadel cadets on Leadership Day have performed excellent service to the community. The Citadel established this program to help cadets to begin thinking about how they can lead by serving others.
Ask the cadets what types of activities they were involved in on Leadership Day. Note that most of these activities were individual acts of service rather than servant leadership. Explain that while such service is great in and of itself, since we are in the leadership business, we also want cadets to start thinking about serving their community as servant leaders.

9. Applicability to Cadet Life Examples of Servant Leadership as a Citizen
Service
Member of a Community Watch
Member of the PTA
Volunteering at a soup kitchen
Donating money to a charity
Picking up litter when you see it
Servant Leadership
Community Watch Captain
Officer in the PTA
Organizing a food drive to stock a soup kitchen
Chairing a fund raiser for a charity
Being the team leader of a group on a beach clean-up day
What are skills you have learned at The Citadel that would equip you for such servant leadership positions?

10. Factual Information Charleston County Community Service Organizations
American Red Cross - helps those in need of assistance
Be a Mentor Initiative - connects kids with adult mentors
Bridge of Hope - offers afterschool programs for children, GED programs for adults
Charleston Jaycees - leadership development and community involvement opportunities for young professionals
Charleston Miracle League - baseball teams for children with physical and mental challenges
Charleston Peace - social and environmental activism group
Charleston Port and Seafarers’ Society - assisting international crews while they are in port
Tricounty Blue Star Mothers - supporting America’s active troops and veterans
Windwood Farm Home for Children - therapeutic intervention for abused and neglected boys
WINGS for Kids - social and emotional learning after school
SCIWAY (South Carolina’s Information Highway) lists these and many other Community Service Organizations in Charleston County. You can see a complete list at What are some servant leadership opportunities you could provide to such organizations given your skill set as a Citadel graduate?

11. Applicability to Cadet Life Group Activity: First Sergeant
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” —Abraham Lincoln
Discuss the following your small group and be prepared to share:
If First Sergeants are there to serve others, not themselves, how can a cadet in this position uphold “the tradition” while remaining humble and respectful?
Break the class into groups of five or so and have them spend five minutes developing ideas for how they good practice servant leadership as a citizen given this scenario. Use the format on the next slide.

12. Applicability to Post Graduation Life
Servant leaders are ethical leaders who build communities by advancing the collective good.
As Citadel graduates, seek not just to serve but to servant lead.
“Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” –President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Ask cadets to explain each take-away in their own words.

13. "The character that takes command in moments of crucial choices has already been determined by a thousand other choices made earlier in seemingly unimportant moments. It has been determined by all the 'little' choices of the past--by all those times when the voice of conscience was at war with the voice of temptation, [which was] whispering the lie that 'it really doesn't matter.' It has been determined by all the day-to-day decisions made when life seemed easy and crises seemed far away…”
– President Ronald Reagan
Reagan, R. W. (1993). The character that takes command. Retrieved from
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14. Questions & Comments