In an increasingly globalized world, stewardship at the institutional level involves ensuring that organizational values and missions remain appropriate. Stewardship begins with ensuring individual well-being, transitions into a focus on team effectiveness, and ultimately leads to a need for institutional-level considerations. These actions improved team effectiveness and avoided future misunderstandings.
For our Swiss group member, this involved setting agreed-upon codes of conduct, periodically explaining the “why” of their missions, and ensuring equal working hours. So managing the interaction between individuals was key. In order for the team to succeed, it was important that this lack of motivation and the team conflicts did not translate to their interaction with the local population.
Personality conflicts also arose amongst the team. Early on during one tour he noticed his team was losing motivation. A great example of team stewardship comes from the experience of the Swiss group member who had done peacekeeping tours in Kosovo. Leaders are stewards at the team level whenever they work to ensure individuals within the organization interact well with each other. However, preparing for the prolonged vitality of an organization does begin with a focus on individuals, but leaders should continue their stewardship approach by taking action at the team level. They recognized the brevity of their time as university students, and took seriously the positive impact their actions could have upon individuals around them. Those student leaders viewed themselves as stewards of their university. Within a few days they could already notice that people on campus were generally happier than before. After piloting this initiative at various locations, they discovered that their dedicated focus on individuals had a profound effect. They dispatched club members to go open doors for students as they entered major buildings around campus. She and her classmates developed a social initiative to make their campus a happier place. A student from our group provided a simple but impactful example of an act of stewardship which had this individual-level focus. One of the many ways to promote this well being is to ensure that each individual is generally happy in his or her working environment. This act of stewardship takes form at different organizational levels.Īt an individual level, stewardship focuses on promoting well-being for each person within an organization. A leader is performing the act of stewardship whenever he or she is actively preparing for an organization’s future vitality. At its most basic level, stewardship is acting upon the understanding that leadership is a temporary role which is outlasted by the lifespan of an organization. We all agreed that good stewardship allows any organization to continually develop and adjust to an ever-changing world. Yet from each of our personal experiences we derived a common sentiment regarding the act of stewardship. We certainly brought to bear a diverse set of perspectives on leadership.
Amongst us, the former head of the world’s largest humanitarian organization, a Swiss soldier who served on peacekeeping tours in Kosovo, a few student-activists from some of North America’s foremost university campuses, an engineer designing the next-step in modern prosthetics, an athletic trainer, and two West Point cadets. The diversity between the eight of us is astounding. We’ve been told to discuss our individual views on the role of stewardship for leaders. Jet-lagged and tired, eight of us are gathered in a private room at West Point’s picturesque Jefferson Hall. Stuart is a French spelling, attested from 1429 and adopted by Mary, Queen of Scots.Aaron Churchill, Brian Barney, Alexa Hazel, Debra Kelsall, Sandy Mouch, Dominique Verdun The Scottish form (with terminal -t attested from late 14c.) is reflected in Stewart, name of the royal house descended from Walter (the) Steward, who married (1315) Marjorie de Bruce, daughter of King Robert. Meaning "person who supervises arrangements" at a meeting, dinner, etc., is from 1703. This was the title of a class of high officers of the state in early England and Scotland, hence meaning "one who manages affairs of an estate on behalf of his employer" (late 14c.). The sense of "officer on a ship in charge of provisions and meals" is first recorded mid-15c. Meaning "overseer of workmen" is attested from c. Used after the Conquest as the equivalent of Old French seneschal (q.v.). Old English stiward, stigweard "house guardian, housekeeper," from stig "hall, pen for cattle, part of a house" (see sty (n.1)) + weard "guard" (from Proto-Germanic *wardaz "guard," from PIE root *wer- (3) "perceive, watch out for").
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