Developing an Other-Focus: A Servant Leadership Oriented Assessment, Challenge, and Support Model of Leadership Development

This chapter reviews the benefits of servant leadership and introduces a Servant Leadership Oriented model of Leadership Development (SLO-LD) based on the Center for Creative Leadership’s (CCL) Assess, Challenge, and Support (ACS) model of leadership development. Our model aims to blend the tenets of an SLO-LD model with the original ACS model. We discuss how an SLO reorients traditional leadership theory and knowledge in a leadership development program. We then present how each of the (ACS) components would function in an integrated SLO-LD. Finally, we discuss a pilot implementation of this model in an LD program for first-time resident assistants and give examples of how such a model could be useful and effective in developing leaders in other unique populations.