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Be an Agile Leader
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Agile leadership
Focuses on fast decision making, short-term goals, and the empowerment of individuals.
And it has expanded to include general leadership skills like acting on a shared vision, leading change, and sharing decision-making.
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The 2 elements of the servant leadership
- Vision: Creating a shared vision is the leadership part of servant leadership;
- Implementation: Helping people implement that vision is the servant part of servant leadership.
Agile leaders are servant leaders.
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Situational Leadership® II (SLII®)
It's a servant leadership model taught by The Ken Blanchard Companies, based on the belief that leadership style should be tailored to the situation.
This kind of flexibility is a key principle of agile organizations.
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Leadership styles of the SLII®
- Providing direction, when someone is new to a task;
- Providing coaching when someone gets discouraged;
- Supporting the a person's continued development as they gain competence in the task;
- Moving to a delegating style, when the direct report demonstrates self-reliance on the goal or task.
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The goal of servant leadership
Successful leadership starts with an attitude of providing service to the goals and dreams of customers and colleagues.
The goal of servant leadership is to lead with integrity, honesty, a...
Servant leader's attitude
Instead of being a dictator and employees followers, a true servant leader serves the employees as well.
A leader makes sure each team member has the resources and support necessary to learn and grow.
Community Involvement
The servant leader concept emphasizes the importance of working for the benefit of the community at large.
This type of leader sees the bigger picture and creates products that improve the quality of life for customers.
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Servant leadership
Is a leadership philosophy that is built on the belief that the most effective leaders strive to serve others, rather than accrue power or take control.
Servant leadership vs. other leadership styles
The authoritarian leadership style:
- The authoritarian style of leadership requires leaders to have total decision-making power and absolute control over their subordinates. Servant leadership upends the top-down power structure.
Similar leadership styles:
- Ethical leadership urges leaders to show respect for the values and dignity of their subordinates. Servant leadership's emphasis on taking responsibility for the needs and desires of others.
- Participative leadership style requires leaders to involve subordinates in setting goals, building teams and solving problems but keep the final decision-making in their own hands. Servant leadership includes some of these elements.
Attributes of a servant leader
- Listening. A servant leader seeks to identify the will of a group and helps to clarify that will.
- Empathy. A servant leader assumes the good intentions of co-workers and does not reject them as people.
- Healing. Understand part of their leadership responsibility is to help make whole employees whose sense of self is precarious.
- Awareness.
- Persuasion. Servant leaders rely on persuasion not positional authority or coercion, to convince others.
- Conceptualization. Balancing between thinking big and managing everyday reality.
- Foresight. The ability to understand the past and see the present clearly to predict how the future will unfold.
- Stewardship. CEOs, staffs and trustees all have a responsibility to hold the institution "in trust" for the greater good of society.
- Commitment to the growth of people. Feel a responsibility to nurture the growth of employees.
- Building community. Find ways to build community in their institutions.
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Leadership Development
Leadership development is viewed as a current and future priority. Despite efforts to produce and nurture new leaders, only 7 percent of senior managers think that their companies develop global le...
Overlooking context
Many training initiatives assume that the same group of skills or leadership styles are suitable without considering the strategy or organizational culture of a company.
An excellent leader in one situation does not necessarily perform well in another. Focusing on context means equipping leaders with two or three competencies that will make a distinction to performance, rather than a list of leadership standards that is of no specific benefit.
Separate reflection from real work
Companies face a challenge when it comes to planning the program's curriculum. Adults typically retain only 10 percent of what they hear in classroom lectures, but nearly two-thirds when they learn by doing.
The answer seems straightforward: tie leadership development to real on-the-job projects. While it is not easy to create opportunities that simultaneously address high-priority needs, companies should strive to make every major business project a leadership-development opportunity as well.