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Servant Leadership: Principles, Popularity, and Payoff

Rick Conlow

Grasp Servant Leadership principles, popularity, and payoff to begin to excel as a leader. With employee engagement and retention on a decline this leadership approach is long overdue. Robert Greenleaf first introduced the Servant leadership style in his 1970 essay, “The Servant as Leader.”

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Fight Ageism, Fuel Growth with Inclusive Hiring & Retention

Harmonious Workplaces

I allowed my typical goatee to return, and, on the first meeting with the team, this individual grimaced and said they didn’t remember me having a beard and that it made me look very old. They wanted someone with strong leadership skills and a history of motivating others — CHECK!

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Mastering the Art of Leading Remote Work Teams

Rick Conlow

It is worth noting that the exact extent of remote work adoption varies across countries, industries, and individual company policies. Bottom-line, companies with people-first culture led by Servant Leadership principles outperform their competitors. Ensure employees have reliable access to these tools and provide training if needed.

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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

I attended a meeting led by the VP of construction for a company for which I was the VP of marketing. I joined the meeting virtually from another part of the building via Microsoft Teams. After the meeting, he called me back into the conference room. The organzation has a no-firearm policy in the emplyee manual.

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Preventing the Exodus of Quiet Quitting at Work

Rick Conlow

Poor leadership: Ineffective or poor leadership can lead to employee disengagement. Losing talented and experienced employees is costly for an organization in terms of recruitment, training, and knowledge transfer. As a result, they quietly quit as they feel their career prospects are stagnant.

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7 Employee Comments that Destroy a Team

Rick Conlow

However, these comments are also a wakeup call for a manager to improve his or her team leadership skills. The team leader did little upfront analysis or training. I learned a valuable lesson about the lack of team leadership. Each department complained about their policies, and lack of support. “I’m too busy.”

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10 leadership skills all leaders need

Halo Psych

Adam Grant, Think Again Some industries and sectors are incredibly complex, with all sorts of rules, regulations, policies and bureaucracy. The ability to handle ambiguity Ultimately, leadership is the ability to thrive in the ambiguity of paradoxes and opposites. Dheeraj Pandey, Founder, CEO and Chairman of Nutanix.