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Is it Time to Fire Your Boss? 3 Questions to Ask.

Modern Servant Leader

Buy a Gift: Get them a great book or training program on people leadership (shameless self-promotion ?). Take this opportunity to ensure you’re ready to be the best leader you can be. You are responsible for your career. Yes, many employers should take a greater interest in the career development of their employees.

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Servant Leader, You Are Not Alone

Modern Servant Leader

When dirty politics is standard, on-the-job training, but leadership courses are few and far between, you are not alone. You are not alone, servant leader. We seek to mend the broken limbs of our corporate cultures and set right what the toxic leaders of today have all but destroyed. Why Servant Leadership is the Future.

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Aim Higher: Servant Leaders Think Long Term

Skip Prichard

My grandfather didn’t use the term “delayed gratification,” but that’s what he was talking about, and it’s a critical part of servant leadership. Servant leaders think long-term. Just like investing, a great leader is thinking about the long-term future of the team and of the organization. Did I influence a career?

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Bad Bosses: The Bloodsucking Mosquitoes You May Deserve

Modern Servant Leader

We swat them away ( train, demote, or fire ), each individual bad boss occurrence. With bad bosses, in addition to training, courses, and assessments, you implement a leadership development program tailored to your unique industry and organization. This solution is cheap and relatively simple. Do You Deserve Bad Bosses?

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Bad Boss Behaviors Cause #1: Lack of Education

Modern Servant Leader

Suddenly, we expect people to navigate uncharted waters with little to no training. Invest in Leadership Development: Companies need to commit to providing comprehensive leadership training, mentoring, feedback, continuous improvement, and support for new bosses. Stop expecting new people leaders absorb the skillset through osmosis.

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4 Strategies to Remove Fear from Your Leadership

Leading with Trust

It’s not always logical and we have to train ourselves to react in more thoughtful ways, but it’s a reality of the human condition. Ken Blanchard and I address this topic in our book, Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust. I’ve observed many leaders who manage people through fear.

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Have You Trained Your Replacement?

Persuasive Powerhouse

Ideally that leader has identified and fully trained that person to take on the role at a moment’s notice. The navy’s leadership knew training everyone to replace anyone was a core success and survival factor. Again, I was responsible for training someone to replace me at a moment’s notice.

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