Fundamentals of Servant Leadership
Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Tools to develop strong relationships and deliver noticeable results
Course outcomes
- Understand the principles of servant leadership
- Learn how to develop and empower your team
Course description
Compared to traditional command and control forms of leadership, servant leaders put their people and organizations before themselves. Through the use of compassion, empathy, and humility, they help their teams grow by removing obstacles to success and ensuring that everyone feels valued and supported.
Join expert Sujatha Das to discover the principles of servant leadership and understand how to apply them. Leaders and aspiring leaders will leave this course knowing how to empower people to achieve, build effective relationships, and create a strong, positive community.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
- Differentiate between a self-serving leader and a servant leader
- Understand the seven key principles of servant leadership
- Describe the practices of performance and impact management
- Monitor performance, progress, and impacts
- Develop and empower your team
- Create a more effective organizational climate and culture
- Understand the pros and cons of servant leadership
- Apply good stewardship to create value for multiple stakeholders
This live event is for you because...
- You’re a leader who wants to positively impact your people, business, or organization.
- You’re a leader who wishes to develop strong, caring relationships and deliver noticeable results.
- You work in a competitive business environment, and you’re looking for ways to distinguish yourself from your peers.
Prerequisites
Recommended follow-up:
- Read Servant Leadership in Action (book)
- Review “Command and Control Versus Servant Leadership” (infographic)
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Servant leadership (110 minutes)
- Group discussion: How would you rate your awareness of servant leadership?
- Presentation: Defining servant leadership; characteristics and key principles
- Hands-on exercises: Explore characteristics of servant leaders
- Break
- Presentation: Four competencies of a servant leader; strategic and operational functions; pros and cons
- Exercise: Explore functions of a servant leader
Wrap-up and Q&A (10 minutes)
Your Instructor
Sujatha Das
Sujatha Das is the global head of learning and organizational development for Tavant, an IT products and services and consulting firm. A life-long learner with almost 30 years of experience working in strategic and tactical leadership and training and organizational learning, she has conceptualized, designed, and delivered many leadership programs, workshops, and webinars and is adept at helping people thrive during disruption and uncertainty.