Season 6 Episode 21: Servant Leadership Characteristics (Impact)

Season 6 Episode 21: Servant Leadership Characteristics (Impact)
Season 6 Episode 21: Servant Leadership Characteristics (Impact)

People want to be led by compelling, caring, influential and purposeful leaders. Servant leaders are focused on creating impact and exhibit characteristics of stewardship, commitment to the growth of others, and building community.

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Jason introduces Season 6 episode 21 of the podcast, Servant Leadership Characteristics (Impact). 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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“Servant leaders begin with a spirit that they are stewards for a greater good in society.”

3:40 – Jason introduces today’s topic. In the last episodes, we talked about Servant leadership and the values of Vision and Awareness. The research is coming back to us in glaring ways that people want to be part of meaningful cultures. Listen to some of the past season’s episodes for more on Servant Leadership and what it means to managers and your teams. Jason is now focusing on a 3-part series about Servant Leadership with this episode being about Impact and what that means to today’s leaders.  The first episode on Servant Leadership focused on Awareness and you can listen to that here. Today we are focusing on Impact and how the spirit of stewardship, commitment to the growth of others, and building community, are essential to being servant leaders and creating these kinds of cultures in the world.

5:06 – The metrics on work performance and people who believe they are part of something bigger than themselves speaks for itself. With improvements in performance, greater happiness and fulfillment in their job, and great retention of employees. Those who practice the principles of servant leadership offer a lot to their employees. Their team members are more likely to hit targets, higher productivity, more likely to build relationships with team members and customers and so much more. If you were in charge of your organization and you were more likely to retain people and attract greater people, wouldn’t you do it? Jason talks about how these principles can be applied in today’s episode.

6:00 – Most people don’t leave jobs, they leave leadership, and the leaders that aren’t creating positive cultures for their employees are missing out greatly. Servant leadership is KEY to engaging their people’s hearts and minds and serving a mission greater than themselves. This is a continuation of a three-part series around servant leadership.

8:10 – Jason shares his insights on some past episodes part of this series about Servant leadership to create a full picture of where this term came from. Leaders that have a deep commitment to inner strength and developing their listening and empathy and healing allow leaders to be more well-rounded in today’s work environments and better deal with new challenges moving forward.

13:11 – Servant leaders begin with a spirit that they are stewards for a greater good in society. Authenticity shines through in these leaders that they are stewards for the greater good in society. They want to be part of creating impact and their contributions are part of something bigger to everyone in a positive way for all. These leaders recognize that their impact will outlast the here and now.

“These leaders recognize that their impact will outlast the here and now.”

14:50 – Jason shares some insights on author Jim Collins and his books, Good to Great and Built to Last. Jason synthesizes that these leaders want to preserve the very best of the past while stimulating forward progress. Servant leaders see that their role as a leader is also to be committed to the growth of other people. It’s about being committed to the talents of the people around them and letting them grow as well. Jason talks about the importance of listening in leadership and what that means for others.

16:15 – A common phrase from team members is “they saw something in me that I didn’t even see in myself”. Servant leaders also see their role in building community. They recognize that people want to belong to something and that people want to participate. They don’t just want orders being handed down to them, they want to belong to something and participate.

18:30 – Jason talks about some of the pitfalls of how people confuse what servant leadership is. It begins with internal spirit and the courage to enter in tough dialogue to not be soft at this moment but to have grit and get minds back on that north star and why we exist to move forward for all.

Questions to Ponder

  1. How do you see your role as a steward?
  2. What stewardship is needed in your life and work?
  3. Whose growth are you committed to?
  4. Who are you actively trying to help develop?
  5. What are you going to do over the next week, month, year to build community with those on the mission with you?

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