01 May Emotions Are Contagious Too!
In these upside-down times, I hope you have found space to tend to your own well-being and the soul of your servant leadership. I believe...
Author: Chris Thyberg
21 Feb The Servant-Leader in Action – Trust
We all need to work with people we trust to pursue the mission and meet expectations. We rely on our co-workers to share our team's...
05 Feb The Servant-Leader in Action – Values and Strengths
When we agree on clear, compelling organizational values, and are able to use our strengths everyday at work we are highly engaged and achieve superior...
20 Jan The Servant-Leader in Action – Mission and Expectations
If you want to recognize a servant-leader in action and uncover what she does to make servant leadership real, look for tangible, measurable, positive results...
15 Nov Servant-Leaders Ask Empowering Questions
This month I am pleased to share another guest article from my friends and colleagues, David Emerald and Donna Zajonc. David and Donna are the...
04 Oct Dreaming Great Dreams
“For anything to happen there must be a dream. And for anything great to happen there must be a great dream.” — Robert K. Greenleaf Every day...
16 Aug Who Do You Follow?
A good friend of mine once shared with me the following nugget of servant leadership wisdom: We cannot give the title of "servant-leader" to someone simply...
17 Jul Freedom Comes from Within
I deeply believe that servant leadership works from the inside out, starting with self-leadership that brings out our best so that those we serve can...
29 May Breaking Free from Limited Thinking
Servant leadership is hard. The challenges are great, and those we lead are looking to us to go out front and point the way. Far...
29 Apr Servant-Leaders are lead listeners
Robert K. Greenleaf, the founder of the servant leadership movement, places receptive listening at the heart of the servant-leader’s approach to those we serve. … only...
22 Mar “What do YOU think?” — Tapping Leadership Within
Good questions work on us; we don’t work on them. Peter Block, The Answer to How is Yes: Acting On What Matters There you are, the...
26 Feb Servant leadership and “workism”
At the heart of servant leadership is the desire to see our labor and others' labor as the expression of meaningful work that creates true...
06 Feb I can serve the next guest, please.
For the past couple years I’ve been filling the holiday downtime in my consulting schedule with work in retail. My, oh my! I have learned...
11 Jan Values and the serving way
One of the servant leader's most important roles is to shape the organization's culture through the values that are its roadmap. Guided by common standards,...
15 Dec Feedback that feeds the soul
One of the most important and challenging tasks of the servant leader is to give great feedback. Here are six steps for empowering others to...
15 Nov When it comes to feedback, servant leaders receive first
Servant leaders model the feedback process by inviting input and receiving it well. Here are five practices to show the way for those you serve....
15 Oct Showing up
How do we get the people we lead to show up every day, eager to create true value that really matters, not only for the...