Servant Leadership
September 5, 2020
Servant leaders are serious about empowering others to become both servants and leaders. They are more open to failure in others (and themselves) since they know that failure is often a pathway to success, learning and growth. The learning mindset of a servant leader leads them to different kinds of questions.
September 4, 2020
The second in a seven-part series:
Servant leaders produce healthy organizations by practicing six key disciplines.
The first of these disciplines is valuing, truly valuing people.
Servant Leader Discipline #1 - Values people.
Servant leaders Value People. Servant leaders believe in and trust the people they lead taking the bold step of trusting others first and seeing this as the best strategy for developing trustworthiness in others.
September 4, 2020
The first of a seven-part series: Can servant leadership be clearly observed and trained? Can the concept be clarified such that its presence or absence can be assessed through an organizational survey tool? The answer to both of these questions is a firm - yes.
September 3, 2020
Do you focus more on the needs of others or on your own needs?
This foundational question points us to one of our central underlying assumptions about life and leadership. Life is about me and taking care of me first; or, live is about others and taking care of the needs of others first. Of course, we must take care of both ourselves and others. But, what comes first? What is our primary motivation, to serve or to be served?