Season 6 Episode 19: Servant Leadership Characteristics (Awareness)

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Season 6 Episode 19: Servant Leadership Characteristics (Awareness)

People want to be led by compelling, caring, influential and purposeful leaders. The foundation of servant leadership begins on the inside with characteristics of listening, empathy, and healing.

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Jason introduces Season 6 episode 19 of the podcast, Servant Leadership Characteristics (Awareness)Welcome back to the podcast on corporate culture and leadership and thank you for listening. We engage thought leaders like CEOs, CFOs, managers, VPs, directors, and more for this podcast. We wish to create content that engages your mind and heart and allows you to step back and think and add some positivity to your life. We deep dive into today’s topic.

We can’t control everything but what we can control is our response. Still a lot of work to do but wanted to remind the audience what is within our control is the temperature we create in the organizations and teams we work with. If you have a suggestion, please send it to info@jasonvbarger.com

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“Leadership begins on the inside”

3:15 – Jason introduces today’s topic. All the research points to people looking for more meaningful work cultures. They want to feel that they are cared for as a human and part of something bigger than themselves. The center for talent innovation says People want to belong at their place of work. If people feel that way it leads to higher ROI on everything else including 3x times more likely that they will reach their full potential.

7:35 – Caring leadership referred to as Servant Leadership is key to engaging with people and serving their needs. Most people don’t leave jobs, they leave managers and teams. When a leader barks out orders it turns people off and it is not what people want. Jason talks about the importance of Servant leadership and covers the top 10 characteristics of servant leadership into 3 categories, today the category is personal awareness, listening, and empathy.

10:34Robert K Greenleaf, coined the term Servant leadership in the 1960s, his essays, the Essentials of Servant leadership helped inspire millions of people around the world with this principle. The three categories are awareness, vision, and impact. It begins with our ability or inability to be aware of our own thinking feeling and our own experiences. Servant leaders are also good listeners, seeking to understand others and other situations. Identify what is being said and what is not being said as well to read a person.

Servant leadership begins with our own awareness and a deep commitment to inner strength.

16:36 – Have a desire for empathy for others. Jason talks about the importance of empathy and how to calibrate the response to meet the need of the person and mission of the organization. The reality is that the best Servant Leaders assume positive intent and are very clear and firm on where they need to go, and they are not soft, they are willing to have courageous conversations to bring it back to the mission at hand and what is required in order to move forward. Space, time, and growth is often needed for internal healing. Healing is another important quality of servant leaders. Allowing people to have time and space honors your team to heal properly to move forward together, Jason talks about this complex topic.

20:10 – Jason summarizes what servant leadership is about. Including growth and empathy needed for servant leaders. Over the next three episodes Jason will talk more about the next three topics including more discussion on vision and impact.

Questions to Ponder

  1. What are you aware of that you thinking, feeling, and experiencing in your life and work?
  2. Who or what needs more listening and empathy to better understand?
  3. What healing might need to take place for future growth?

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