Mark Sanborn

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In 1970, Robert Greenleaf published an essay entitled, “The Servant as Leader.” ” At a time when leadership was often an aspiration of those who wanted recognition and power, Greenleaf’s ideas were revolutionary. The antidote to negativity, I believe, isn’t positivity but gratitude. Encourage others regularly.

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Modern Servant Leader

OCTOBER 9, 2012

David is a retired Navy Officer whose last job was managing and supervising Custodians and Security Monitors in the Custodial Services division of the Mukilteo School District in Everett, Washington. As Greenleaf wrote, there is a healing in the process of serving others. Are there any other questions you wish I’d asked? Introduction.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Positive and Realistic: You can go far on a positive attitude. Positivity is energizing and encouraging, keeping your followers going in good times and bad. Realism combined with positivity grounds you in truth and allows you to reject the impractical. Having a positive attitude affirms individuals that surround you.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 19, 2011

According to my experiences, working with happiness, motivation, humor and confidence will make things more effective and much easier, since we have a positive attitude. We partner with great leaders to help them become even greater at developing, improving, and sustaining relationships with the people who are essential to their success.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 19, 2011

If no one on your team is capable of being trained for your role, you need to know others in the organization (or even outside the company) who would be good fits for your position. Mike Figliuolo is the Managing Director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC. Nandini G: January 24, 2011 at 1:33 am I too am not in a leadership position currently.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. Larry is also the one who studied Greenleaf’s writings for years, extracted and shared the very popular 10 Characteristics of Servant-Leadership. A very humble man, he often points to Robert Greenleaf as the source of his message.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 17, 2011

They learned how to give constructive feedback to each other and agreed that they needed to assure that positive feedback and expressing points of agreement in a debate were needed. Will they stay true? I wonder if they will be able to stay true to the commitments they’ve made to work together when the going gets tough.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 15, 2010

I teach coaching skills to groups of managers regularly; every individual executive client I have gets taught coaching skills in some way or another; and of course, I practice coaching myself (I call it “practice” on purpose). One of the biggest pushbacks I get from those I teach almost always has to do with the time that coaching takes.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 10, 2010

Thought-full Thursday: A Meaningful Enterprise » A Good Bye with Humanity August 10th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus How often as a leader do you have someone in your circle of influence (manager, peer, direct report, maybe even a customer or consultant) that leaves your organization? Fairly often, I’ll bet.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 8, 2010

Often what it comes down to is that their manager is not willing to wait for the time it takes my client to make some changes to their leadership. Some of these clients got lucky and found positions in different parts of the same company before the firing squad came. Have you asked what this person needs to be successful?

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. Larry is also the one who studied Greenleaf’s writings for years, extracted and shared the very popular 10 Characteristics of Servant-Leadership. A very humble man, he often points to Robert Greenleaf as the source of his message.

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Even if you manage to find what appears to be solid leadership advice, does it actually help you advance your career and become a better leader? Greenleaf's, "Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power & Greatness," provides a blueprint for securing and maintaining proper, respectable leadership.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

All of the information he provided was given in a positive way, without rushing. It reminds me of the research that Gallup did (chronicled in the book How Full Is Your Bucket by Tom Rath) that identified the optimal mix of positive to negative comments as 5 to 1. How often we forget the impact our own attitude has on others.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I will use your questions in a excercise with my management team. Everything she does is with a positive attitude and she never gives up. Carina, you are such a positive force with your blog comments. Sachin: November 22, 2010 at 10:27 pm Inspiration is an amazing trait that can help managers get the most from their employees.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

When employees feel truly involved in the company collaboration becomes the norm and the divide between managers and staff melts naturally. First, encouraging, coaching, + nurturing individuals in ways that establish patterns of work which improve the odds positive results will be sought creatively (I esp.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 10, 2010

When we are intentional about our words, we can choose to spread positive emotion or negative emotion; to lift or deflate. To be intentionally positive is the key to making gratefulness a habit in our lives. I think many of us have a natural tendency to want to downplay positive events, for fear of the ensuing negative event.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

All members of an organization, who are responsible for the work of others, have the potential to be good leaders if properly developed.” “Leadership is not a person or a position. “Leadership is about service to others and a commitment to developing more servants as leaders. ” –Robert Greenleaf.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

One of the worst things a leader can do is to let their ego write checks their talent can’t cash… Humility is actually the trait that magnifies all other positive attributes. Thanks in advance for sharing… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.]

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Jennifer, it is so much more positive to think in these terms, isn’t it? We partner with great leaders to help them become even greater at developing, improving, and sustaining relationships with the people who are essential to their success. And I know you and I are there to help people FIND their own.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 21, 2010

when I see that we no longer need to use 360’s in our organizations because: There are no toxic managers. Positive and “corrective” feedback is given freely and without consequences to the messenger. Developing staff is as important as the bottom line. Leaders receive honest feedback on a regular basis without asking for it.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 27, 2010

Reeve chose to dedicate the rest of his life to being a positive force, raising funds and awareness for spinal cord injuries. We partner with great leaders to help them become even greater at developing, improving, and sustaining relationships with the people who are essential to their success.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

And so this becomes the lens through which we view others: “He has an attitude problem and just cannot work on team&# , or, “She is a high performer, but couldn’t possibly step up to a position in the C-suite&#. The difference, I think, was the individual’s manager – and the potential they saw.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The act of reflecting can us to become aware of our past actions in order to impact the future in a positive way. For every decision, there are often positive results and less-than-positive results. In a way, when we reflect, we fold back upon ourselves. We don’t get obvious and immediate rewards for doing it.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 31, 2010

This book highlights Paul’s significant experience in a 40-year career of managing people and as a well-respected consultant to managers and their organizations across the globe. This is really the compilation of many years of being a manager and teaching managers. What are the 8 skills?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 25, 2010

Upbeat and positive, people loved being around him. Best, Tanmay Mole Chapman : August 25, 2010 at 10:19 am indeed, I’m always stuck by the human capacity to contribute positively to others. As leaders, we are in the valued position to make a tremendous impression. Thanks for this post MJ!

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

For most managers (and other leaders) it would require a major paradigm shift in their styles to start sincerely asking these questions of those they’re leading. Sean, yes, this way of thinking is hard, and very different from what most managers are used to. I can’t imagine what Disney would be like if not positive.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

I was young and had a lot at stake in my position – I was the major breadwinner in my family and felt the weight of the responsibility to provide for my young children. He ultimately took the tyrant out of a management position at the company (in today’s world, this individual may have been fired). How have you been responsible?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Developing yourself and others to create a continuous learning culture. Supporting growth and development will positively affect the goals your organization is attempting to achieve. When a leader gives him or herself to all employees in very helpful ways a new sense of transparency and trust develops.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 5, 2010

If not, consider your fall back position (are you willing to negotiate for “part time&# if you can’t get what you asked for?). We partner with great leaders to help them become even greater at developing, improving, and sustaining relationships with the people who are essential to their success.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

The Gifts You Can Give Let’s explore some of the gifts you may have been given or that you have developed in your time on earth. In a world devoid of positive feedback, you can make a difference. Leaders, especially, need to consider the non-material gifts they have that can be given to others “for the greater good”.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Having an awareness of the values that motivate you are key to the kind of leadership that will impact you and others in a positive way. But I never put an effort to check whether I have changed in a positive way. I picked three most important value cards and put them in my wallet and looked at every time I open my wallet.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Every action, every gesture and every word out of a leader’s mouth can influence in a positive or a negative way; either way impacts the bottom line. It’s energizing, in this day of all the bad stories about leaders gone wrong, to hear stories of the wonderful leaders (including moms) who positively influenced our lives.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 2, 2011

blind spots are not always weaknesses; they may be positive traits too). Instead of focusing on the past behavior – which you cannot change – ask people to give you one or two suggestions for positive changes you can make in this area going forward. In the latter case, I’ll want to learn to lighten up.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 30, 2010

I spent many years working in positions that allowed me the freedom to choose my path. We partner with great leaders to help them become even greater at developing, improving, and sustaining relationships with the people who are essential to their success. I learned from them all and each contributed to the joy in my current work.

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CO2

APRIL 20, 2012

Today, the ability to be seen as a participative leader can still be important and those in leadership positions that don’t take the thoughts and feelings of their subordinates into account are rarely regarded as truly great leaders. The Path-Goal Theory of Leadership was developed in the mid-’70s by Martin G. Evans and Robert J.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The manager let that person go due to business reasons. Corrie Block : September 21, 2010 at 4:44 pm Hi Mary, It was my mentors that reminded me that I didn’t have to lead by position, even though I could have. My other point was that a person works in a place for a long time whole heartedly.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Many believe that when they request feedback from their staff, peers, and manager that they will hear the unvarnished truth about their performance; seldom does that happen. This may have nothing to do with the leader who is asking; but it may have a lot to do with the fact that the leader is in a position of power.

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