Servant Leadership: Serve to Be Great

The misconception of expecting leadership only from the people who have power and authority, or in other words, expecting power or authority to demonstrate leadership, prevents the potential of communities from being revealed. In order to understand how leadership is formed, I believe we need to consider those who come forward as leaders and how the followers engage with them.

With the experience of PMI Leadership Institute Master Class (LIMC), there was a “wow” point for us when we realized leadership is a journey, in other words, a process - initiated, executed and handed over. As a group of LIMC colleagues, we feel we need to share our thoughts with the community through this Servant Leadership, Serve to be Great blog.

I am part of this exciting blogger team mainly to encourage and inspire the readers to initiate their leadership journey and to discuss what tools they need to carry with them to achieve their purpose. You may expect that the colorful diversity of the bloggers will bring great examples of leadership from different cultures.  

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!