Servant leadership at it’s very core values meeting the needs of others over self. Relational trust by followers is built by seeing genuine humility not from the power that only comes through positional authority. Great leaders are not threatened by working with others because their ultimate acceptance is unconditional. This Forbes post is a great read:
“Followership is one of the most challenging tasks leaders must tackle. In fact, not every leader can or will follow, but the leader who will lead well knows how and when to do so. For example, a leader will seek to model followership to all team members as they prepare their organization to function without them. Every high-performing organization should be better when the leader operates in the business, but the business should also be able to perform when the leader is not present — whether temporarily or permanently.”