What Is Servant Leadership? Characteristics of Servant Leadership Myths Of Servant Leadership Best Servant Leaders Benefits of Servant Leadership Do's and Don'ts of Being a Servant Leader Servant Leadership at the Workplace The servant-leader is servant first and then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. Servant leaders involve others in decision-making that enhances the growth of people while improving the quality of organizational life. Servant leaders ensure that their team’s needs are met while they focus on helping individuals make better decisions and be more innovative. Servant leadership is not about gaining–it is about giving and serving. Characteristics of Servant Leadership Valuing People Humility: People First Listening Empathy Stewardship Trust & Caring Persuasion Building Community Myths Of Servant Leadership 1) Servant leadership means giving up power to employees. Servant leadership is about sharing power and decision-making with employees to enable the business to be successful. Servant leadership doesn’t mean that employees can do whatever they want, or that every decision within the organization is made by consensus. 2) A servant leader is abdicating responsibility for success. Servant leader understands that they are ultimately responsible for the success of their employees and the success of their business. Sometimes decisions need to be made that only the leader can make; the tough calls that might be unpopular. #Leadership #ServantLeadership #ServantLeaders #Agile #Scrum #DecisionMaking #Empathy #Persuasion #projectmanagement #OrganizationalLife #Innovation #Growth #ManoharPrasad #AgileCoaching #ServantLeader #organization #ResponsibilityForSuccess #BusinessSuccess #PopularDecision

1. Servant Leadership
Manohar Prasad, PMP®, PMI-ACP®, CSP® SAFe® (SA, SSM, POPM), ICP-ACC®

2. Agenda
 What Is Servant Leadership?
 Characteristics of Servant Leadership
 Myths Of Servant Leadership
 Best Servant Leaders
 Benefits of Servant Leadership
 Do's and Don'ts of Being a Servant Leader
 Servant Leadership at the Workplace
 QnA

3. What Is Servant Leadership?
 The servant-leader is servant first and then conscious
choice brings one to aspire to lead.
 Servant leaders involve others in decision-making that
enhances the growth of people while improving the
quality of organizational life.
 Servant leaders ensure that their team’s needs are met
while they focus on helping individuals make better
decisions and be more innovative.
 Servant leadership is not about gaining–it is about
giving and serving.

4. Characteristics of Servant Leadership
 Valuing People
 Humility: People First
 Listening
 Empathy
 Stewardship
 Trust & Caring
 Persuasion
 Building Community

5. Myths Of Servant Leadership
 Servant leadership means giving up power to
employees.
Servant leadership is about sharing power and decision-
making with employees to enable the business to be
successful.
Servant leadership doesn’t mean that employees can do
whatever they want, or that every decision within the
organization is made by consensus.
2) A servant leader is abdicating responsibility for success.

6. Myths Of Servant Leadership
 A servant leader is abdicating responsibility for
success.
Servant leader understands that they are ultimately
responsible for the success of their employees and the
success of their business.
Sometimes decisions need to be made that only the
leader can make; the tough calls that might be
unpopular.

7. Best Servant Leaders
 Did these great servant leaders seek personal gain, power, money?
Above all, their “success secret” is the path of servant leadership.
Certainly, their cause mattered more than their own lives.
 Servant leadership is not about gaining–it is about giving and
serving.

8. Benefits of Servant Leadership
 The characteristics of success are well-defined.
 Builds deeper, trust-based relationships.
 Encourages greater ownership and responsibility.
 Encourages innovation, curiosity, and creativity.
 Develops a people-focused culture.
 Delivers a significant positive impact on company performance.

9. Do's and Don'ts of Being a Servant Leader
Do
 Serve others
 Cultivate trust
 Raise hope for the future
 Listen more and talk less
 Make sure people understand
and sign on to the mission
Be clear about why you are doing it
Don't
 Shut down diverse opinions
 Forget to develop other leaders
 Make yourself scarce
 Just preach empathy, practice it
 Feel that you’re giving up
control

10. Servant Leadership at the Workplace
 If an organization’s goals and objectives aren’t met, a servant
leader will look first at themselves and what they could have done
better to support their people in achieving them.
 A servant leader is not threatened by the ideas and inputs of others.
Instead, they regularly seek out feedback and consider the opinions
of others. This type of behavior encourages innovation and will
carry your business into the future.
 You are a servant leader when you focus on the needs of others
before you consider your own. It's a longer-term approach to
leadership, rather than a technique that you can adopt in specific
situations.

11. Questions?
Any questions?

12. Thank you!
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