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SERVANT Leaders are Thorough – Acronym Model

Modern Servant Leader

For more, visit the overview at this link or sign up for the free online course, Servant Leadership 101. The last principle in the SERVANT Leadership acronym is THOROUGH. Servant leaders focus on the long-term. What THOROUGH Looks Like for Leaders. Still, the leader should be thorough about who she delegates to.

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SERVANT Leaders are Needful – Acronym Model

Modern Servant Leader

For more, visit the overview at this link or sign up for the free online course, Servant Leadership 101. We’re near the end of our series on the definition of Servant Leadership through the acronym SERVANT. So leaders should create opportunities to listen to their teams. Furthermore, the servant leader is no wimp.

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Do You Trust Your Team Enough to Go on Vacation?

Leading with Trust

Simple truth #44 in my new book with Ken Blanchard, Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust , says… The most important part of leadership is what happens when you’re not there. High-control leaders are afraid to take time off of work and delegate to their team members.

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When Servant Leadership Goes Awry | Aspire-CS

Persuasive Powerhouse

The leader-first and the servant-first are two extreme types. Some of these servant leaders express reluctance to “impose” on others to help with the workload. When you can begin to refuse to do the things that have lower impact for you and the organization, you are on your way to truly being a servant leader.

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Walk the Talk: Four Tips to be an Extraordinary Leader

Great Leadership By Dan

Walter: It’s common knowledge that there are two kinds of leaders, those who speak and those who do. Those who speak are referred to as “vocal leaders,” and those who do are referred to as “servant leaders,” though the title of the latter is frequently off-putting to business leaders of self-proclaimed high stature.

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Servant Leadership Revisited

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from William Dann: The concept of servant leadership was introduced by Ancient Chinese philosophers such as Lao-Tzu, then found in the Christian teachings of Mark. Servant leaders value the needs of followers over their own needs for recognition, being right or being in control. To me it is more of a value system.

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The Trouble with Control

Great Leadership By Dan

And it’s not just the nemesis of new, inexperience managers who are nervous and learning to use their delegation skills. It plagues leaders from the top to the bottom of an organization: new leaders, old leaders, promoted from within, hired from the outside. I am just being a servant leader.”