Welcome to Servant Leadership: Serve to be Great!
From the Servant Leadership: Serve to Be Great Blog
by Cameron McGaughy,
Catalin Dogaru, Mike Frenette, Tolga Özel, Suzan Cho, Jonathan Lee, Graham Briggs, Cecilia Boggi
This blog is about leadership as it applies to projects and project management, but also as it applies to society in general. The bloggers here manage projects and lead teams in both business and volunteer environments, and are all graduates of PMI's Leadership Institute Master Class. We hope to bring insight into the challenges we all experience in our projects and in our day-to-day work, providing helpful tidbits to inspire you to take action to improve—whether in your personal life, your business/work life or on your projects. Read, comment and share your experiences as we share ours. Let’s make the pie bigger! Grab a slice!
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Thank you for reading the inaugural post in this newly minted Web Log: “Servant Leadership: Serve to be Great”. I am so delighted and honoured to be part of the PMI Leadership Institute Masters Class (LIMC) 2015 along with my colleagues whose names you see at the top of this blog.
We are all in the business of managing projects in our work lives, and I dare say, in our private lives as well. Project management is also about project leadership and leadership in general, whether that is at work, at home, in a volunteer role with your local church group or charity. Authentic leadership is about serving those you lead and helping them achieve their goals and become servant leaders too. But you must do that within the context of who you are - and sometimes a voyage of self-discovery is needed just to know that!
Where do you thrive? What strengths do you possess that you can leverage? What areas for improvement are you aware of that will help you understand your own behaviour?
Are you an inspiration to your teams? Do they take positive action autonomously based on the understanding you have conveyed?
Watch this space for more thoughts on servant leadership, and please share your own! We are looking forward to a fruitful conversation among ourselves and with you!
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Thilo Wack
Head of Existing Product and Test Lab| optimed
Tholey-Hasborn, Germany
Good to see that there is now a blog on this important topic. Because of their special role in most organizations, PMs need a different (better?) leadership style then the old "Command and Control". Looking forward to all the posts and comments.
Suhail Iqbal
Suhail Iqbal PMIATP CIPM FAAPM MPM MQM CLC CPRM SCT AEC SDC SMC SPOC PRINCE2 MCT| PM Training School
Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
Looking forward to see you all from LIMC 2015 in your convocation. I am from LIMC 2005 and will be attending your convocation ceremony.
Mario Trentim
CEO| PMO Global Alliance
Sao Jose Dos Campos, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Dino Butorac
Service Delivery Manager| Version 1
Dublin, Ireland
Tolitha Lewis
Sr. Project Manager| Eli Lilly & Company
Fishers, In, United States
Buena idea¡¡¡, tengo una primera duda para compartir: se puede liderar un proyecto con resultados exitosos, y no cumplir con los requerimientos convencionales de "líder"?, por ejemplo si este líder es disruptivo?
Sheryl Adam
SAFe agilist / Agile Coach / Scrum Master / Product Owner| CGI
Brighton, Co, United States
I'm excited to see how this evolves in the PM community. This inherent tenant in the Scrum Master Role.
I like how Barry Overeem explains it in the Scrum world:
http://www.barryovereem.com/the-scrum-master-as-a-servant-leader/
And, how Sreedhar Koganti CSM explains it:
https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/articles/2014/august/the-art-and-science-of-servant-leader
I have always felt that no matter the methodology the leader is a servant-leader. And, that doesn't reduce the importance at all of good project management methodology/process after all businesses aren't in business to give us all jobs to to meet their mission/vision.
I am excited to see what topics come up in here and learning from you all.
Titilola Park
Director, Projects| Tamgor Nig. Ltd
Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Looking forward to reading more....
Jeff Howcroft
Vice President Education| PMI Northern Utah Chapter
South Jordan, Ut, United States
Excited to be part of this blog team and looking forward to sharing my thoughts with everyone
Mihaela Duceag
Supervisor - Projects and Analysis| Peel Regional Police
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
SOAR framework comes to mind in this context. Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations and Results: good leader (project leader or otherwise) needs to be able to work with the team, inspire them, challenge them to be the best they can be and let them "fly". I think there is nothing more rewarding than to see the people you''ve mentored succeed and take on new highs.
Servant leadership is about others, not about you!
When we started the PMI Leadership Master Class, we were asked to define characteristics of good leaders, and characteristics of bad leaders: empowering, assertive, good communicator, good listener, lead by example, visionary, ethical, inspiring, transparent, supportive, caring, etc. Bad leaders - well, the opposite :(
Jonathan Lee
Agile Project Management Coach| Riics, Inc.
Chicago, Il, United States
Thanks Mike for initiating and forming this group to blog together. I am looking forward to our journey!
This is an important topic that transcends the project management profession to leadership in all areas of life.
"The greatest among you shall be your servant." -- Matt. 23:11
Luis Branco
CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª
Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dear Mike
Interesting to your perspective on: "Welcome to Servant Leadership: Serves to be Great!"
Thanks for sharing
Important Points:
"But you must do that within the context of who you are - and sometimes a voyage of self-discovery is needed just to know that!
Where do you thrive? What strengths do you have that you can leverage? What areas for improvement are you aware of that will help you understand your own behavior? "
I'll be waiting for new articles on the topic
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