Is there trust within your organization? Do you feel respect and transparency from your peers and above? If not, you are no stranger to the effects of an uncommunicative, unreliable team. So the question remains: how do you measure trust?
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The leader's responsibility doesn’t stop with selecting new team members. Instead, the selection is where our commitment begins. Activating the full value of team members requires the discovery of their latent abilities. It becomes our job to enable our people to thrive.
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These four phrases are not particularly egregious but for the servant leader, these phrases unduly complicate conversations and take away opportunities to build trust. Omit these phrases from your vocabulary and elevate your servant leadership path.
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Servant Leadership is consistently seen as a weak style of leadership… In his book The Infinite Game, however, Simon Sinek speaks to a mentality that coincides with the core tenets of servant leadership and shows that the principles of servant leadership are the ones that allow for organizations, businesses, and people to succeed in their endeavors.
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Millennials have taken over the workplace. As a young individual entering the workforce, you’re trying to not only learn the ropes in your industry, you’re also figuring out who you are as an individual. They’re branching out, finding new approaches to teamwork and leadership. For me, all signs point to servant leadership.
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As a society, we have found a way to become resilient with work. Most have figured out a way to shift their operations to become a partially or fully teleworked entity. They still employ people, provide products and services, and keep their organizations afloat. However, our country is in an unprecedented mental health crisis.
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As a business coach and salon owner, every single time that a company or person brings me a challenge, the answer always comes back to their foundation of culture. If you forget about culture, your bottom line will be affected. So, how can you engage the right people for culture growth? It starts with identifying the types of people in your organization.
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It seems as though what is needed is the kind of leader that leads with compassion and understanding. Since so many are disconnected because of social distancing and a healthy fear of contracting a virus, the leader that is needed is a connected leader that is resilient. A resilient servant leader.
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Video conferencing, emails, and remote working have become not only the norm, but the expectation of 2020. We’ve replaced in-person interactions and fully immersed ourselves in the online world. While adapting to this new environment, one aspect of humanity that is declining is empathy.
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I think I have a good grasp of what it is to be a servant leader. I am a good person, honest and well-intended, but I know my journey is far from complete and there is more work to do. How do I know this? I thought about my thinking.
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Listening is the one thing we do most in life (other than breathing). What do you do with the information you receive? Listening is key in communication (as well as in servant leadership), in relationships, in everything that we do. If a leader is not willing to listen, he is on the verge of losing the privilege to lead.
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Some of life’s circumstances are sour. How you react to those challenges determines whether or not those circumstances become successes. Inspirational speaker, author, and salon owner Kelly Cardenas shares how to turn life’s lemons into lemonade.
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Have you changed in fundamental ways because of crucial moments which mattered in your life? How have you adjusted to those crucial moments? We spoke with Don Janssen about his most recent Servant Leadership Institute blog: "Moments that Matter: Sinking in Defeat or Rising to Lead.”
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How do we find the light when all there seems to be is darkness? As we decipher how to manage, here are a few simple reminders that can help you maintain a positive mindset during challenging times.
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At the time of this article, most of the world is sheltering in place. But I’m writing this for both this particular situation and, hopefully, beyond.
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If you’ve been reading and listening to Servant Leadership Institute content over the years, you’ll notice we’ve urged you to “lead with your heart...” But what does that really mean?
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Leaders watch for opportunities to bring hope and change things for the better. But what do we do when, in a moment, troublesome circumstances intervene?
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Recently, I was on a call with my friend Sara Thingvold and as we were discussing some future endeavors we would embark on together, we got to talking about our year (2019) and the other things we’re dealing with as we roll into the new year. Then Sara said something that has had my head on a swivel since the moment she said it. “Lyle,” she declared, “this is a year of discovery for you!” Wow...thank so much, Sara!
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In Robert Greenleaf’s book, The Servant Leader, he says, “are people better off after coming in contact with you?” is the measure of a servant leader. What a great way to explain servant leadership! It’s so simple, yet definitely causes you to reflect. You really have to be quite brave in answering this question and willing to be introspective as you examine your actions and motives in leading people.
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When I hear myself say about another person, “What is wrong with them?” or “Why can’t they stop being so judgmental?” or any number of complaints about fellow human beings, I stop to think about my tapir dialog. Do I know that person for who he is, not some made-up image of who I assume he is? Am I assuming he’s an anteater or pig, when he’s really a magnificent tapir? Am I reducing a person who has hopes, dreams and problems just like me to an object I can justify criticizing?
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