The Servant-Leader’s Night Before Christmas
Okay, you asked for it, here’s my personal reading of an old favorite: The SERVANT-LEADER’S Night Before Christmas. I hope you enjoy it and have a wonderful Christmas with friends, family, and loved ones.
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Training Program ROI Calculators – New Resource Available
If you need to calculate the ROI for leadership training programs, here’s a tool you can use. We provide 4 different return-on-investment calculators, based on research, to quickly and easily estimate the benefits of your training programs.
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How to Celebrate and Motivate Your Team at an End of Year Event
You wat celebrate and motivate your team during an end of year event? You want to do it up right? This is a great example to follow.
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Servant-Leadership 101: Thorough Lesson (Erin Brockovich Movie Example)
The last principle in the Acronym Model of SERVANT-Leadership® is Thorough. This 6-minute lesson demonstrates the Thorough principle, through the example of Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts). Erin Brockovich was an unemployed, single mother of 3 children, who, in 1993, discovered that Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) was lying to residents and employees while poisoning
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Top Tips for Managing Up
Top Tips for Managing Up When it comes to managing up, there are two scenarios: when you’re on good terms with your boss and when you’re struggling with them. From my experience, most people seeking advice on managing up, are already struggling to align with their boss. The following tips are categorized for each scenario.
Would You Invest $3 Billion Where You Lead
If you had $3 billion to invest in any mission, cause or effort, what would you invest in? While also putting your personal time and energy behind it as the leader of that organization or mission? That’s what the founder and CEO of Patagonia recently did, while retaining a very small portion. I think it
What is Speed Mentoring?
Speed Mentoring In a leadership development class I was teaching yesterday, one of the participants mentioned that their employer offers regular speed mentoring opportunities and it occurred to me a lot of you may not be familiar with this term or concept and what it is. So I’m sharing real quickly. Simply put, speed mentoring
Accountability: Servant-Leadership in Sales
It really ticks me off when people describe servant-leadership as “soft management”. This misconception often leads to the fear of poor accountability. So, when an executive recently described their need to build greater accountability in their sales department, I took the opportunity to frame an example through the lens of servant-leadership. Explain Why Accountability Matters
Servant-Leadership 101: Nonpartisan Lesson (Moneyball Movie Example)
The second-to-last principle in the Acronym Model of SERVANT-Leadership™ is Nonpartisan. This 6-minute lesson demonstrates the Nonpartisan principle, through the example of Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) and Peter Brand (Jonah Hill). Billy Beane was manager of the Oakland A’s Major League Baseball team, when their player salary budget was slashed. He knew they could not
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Servant-Leadership 101: Principle of Authenticity (The Post Movie Example)
The fifth principle in the Acronym Model of SERVANT-Leadership™ is Authentic. This 6-minute lesson demonstrates this principle, through the example of Kay Graham and Ben Bradlee (played by Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks) debating personal relationships vs. professional responsibilities. Graham is the CEO of The Washington Post and Bradlee is Executive Editor for the paper.
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