Your Service into Their Commitment
Don’t ask people to get on your team until you get on theirs.
Everyone wants to know if you’re with them. Serve the best interest of each team member.
When leaders serve others, they energize others to serve.
Leadership begins when service becomes more important than status.
Your service helps others to…
- Feel safe.
- Embrace their power.
- Bring their talent.
- Act with boldness.
- Endure through adversity. Grit requires a “with.”
- Dare to try again after failure.
- Connect and collaborate.
5 Ways to Get on Their Team
- Honor past successes. People forget how far they’ve come. When others feel down, tell them how you saw their strength in the past. Encourage by repeating their story back to them.
- Speak to motivations. The key to inspiration is understanding people’s motivation. Ask, “What makes this work meaningful to you?”
- Accept strengths and weaknesses, even as you stretch capacities. Acceptance comes before belonging.
- Take responsibility when things go wrong. Never publicly blame anyone on your team. If you’re the leader, own your screw-ups.
- Strengthen people to go where they couldn’t go alone. Ask, “What support will strengthen you to take the next step?”
Self-serving leaders build self-protective teams.
When you serve people, they feel free to serve.
What does service look like to you?
The Top Signs You’re a Servant-Leader – Leadership Freak
Read: Dare to Serve by Cheryl Bacheldor
