• Trust and respect. Treat everyone on your team as a whole person.
• Accountability. Hold yourself accountable knowing that no one is perfect.
• Listening. Actively solicit your team members’ participation, their ideas, and their feedback such that you can tailor your leadership approach to each one of them accordingly.
• Service to others. Encourage your team members, through your words and actions, to set aside self-serving behaviours in favour of serving others.
• Mentoring. Offer selfless mentorship.
• Persistence. Practise persistence with patience, realising that one or two conversations may not have the desired change in an employee’s assumptions or mindset.

Servant leadership is a very social leadership style.

While traditional leadership is about the accumulating, hoarding and exercising (which often degenerates into abusing) of power by the one at the “top of the pyramid,”servant leadership is about sharing power with your team, id...