Exploring Servant Leadership

In this week’s episode, Chief Victory Officer, Eric Guy, is joined by Dave Lutes, coach and consultant at Under New Management Group LLC and McCluen-Martin Associates LLC. They discuss the importance of servant leadership and how it benefits all organizations.

Takeaways:
- Organizations should place value on their employees’ lives and recognize that they have God-given talent and ability that can be discovered and unlocked.
- Nurture the soil that your people are planted in with care, good feedback, open communication, delegation, and investment.
- You will retain your people if they feel you’re investing in them, if they have a good relationship with their manager, and if they have a career path and development plan.
- People want to discover a place that taps into their heart’s desires and gives them a chance to test it out.
- Figure out what people’s flight risk assessment will be. Is this candidate in risk of leaving and finding something better? The impact of losing them would be considerable if they’re a high potential candidate.
- If you claim to have an open door policy for communication with your people, it has to be more than just a literal open door into your office.
- People need to see that it’s okay for them to fail in your organization and that they will be supported if they do.
- Investing in people increases your return on investment.
- Get the right people in the right job, doing the right thing, in the right way, with the right support. Give them the right training, achieving the right objectives and goals, with the right succession planning model.

Quotes:
- “Create the soil for your people to grow.”
- “It took me years to discover what made the light come on in my own heart.”
- “Servant leadership is smart business.”
- “Don’t boil the ocean, boil a teacup. You can’t change the culture overnight.”

MAKE THIS YOUR BEST DAY YET!