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Jodi Quillen Senior Project Manager| Southwest Airlines Co. Dallas, Tx, United States
The PMBOK lists several different Leadership styles (PMBOX 6th Edition, section 3.4.5.1). I'm particularly interested in Servant Leadership since it's is the preferred style of my organization and it works quite well for us.

My question to you: Do you use elements of a Servant Leader style? If so, in what ways? What has the benefit been to you and your team? If not, what is your primary leadership style, and why?
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Jodi Quillen Senior Project Manager| Southwest Airlines Co. Dallas, Tx, United States
Feb 27, 2019 11:42 PM
Replying to SHADAV MOHAMMAD ANSARI
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Servant leadership is my choice.
As a servant leader, you're a "servant first" – you focus on the needs of others, especially team members, before you consider your own. You acknowledge other people's perspectives, give them the support they need to meet their work and personal goals, involve them in decisions where appropriate, and build a sense of community within your team. This leads to higher engagement, more trust, and stronger relationships with team members and other stakeholders. It can also lead to increased innovation.
To have an team that trusts one another is a very powerful thing, and trust opens the door to creative problem solving and innovation! Thanks, Shadav!
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
First let me say this: the style is a component inside the organizational architecture that belongs to the business layer. So, style has to be aligned to organizational style. No matter that I worked in places where I tried to use other style than the organizational defined or I tried to be an "agent of change" using my own style. Second, in my personal experience, servant leadership or somthing close to that is what worked for me and it is totally indpendent of the approach (for example Lean or Agile). My personal "leimotiv" is "I am doing well if you are doing well" and I behave following that. Call that servant leadership or as you want.
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