Are you ready to transform your leadership style and boost team performance? Discover how servant leadership can elevate your business by fostering a supportive, growth-driven culture. In this episode, Tod Creneti shares actionable insights on leading with purpose, building meaningful relationships, and driving sustainable success!
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Key Notes
- Servant Leadership Defined:
- Servant leadership focuses on meeting the needs of team members rather than giving directions. It aims to support, grow, and empower employees, creating a more engaged and productive workforce.
- Listening as a Foundation:
- Great leadership starts with being a world-class listener. Understanding employees’ motivations, goals, and challenges is key to driving engagement and building stronger teams.
- Balancing Servant Leadership and Productivity:
- Effective leaders must balance empathy and support with accountability. Meeting deadlines and performance goals is important, but it shouldn’t come at the cost of disregarding employees’ needs.
- Operationalizing Servant Leadership:
- To make servant leadership part of a company’s culture, it must be ingrained into daily operations. This ensures that leaders consistently support their teams, and that servant leadership becomes a visible and practiced value.
- Challenges in Remote Work:
- With remote work, maintaining personal connections becomes more difficult. Leaders need to proactively ask questions and engage with employees to ensure their needs are being met.
- Vulnerability in Leadership:
- Leaders must model vulnerability first to create a trusting environment where employees feel comfortable sharing their challenges. This openness fosters deeper connections and enhances workplace culture.
- Holding Employees Accountable:
- Support and accountability must go hand-in-hand. Leaders can empower employees by showing unconditional support, while also setting clear expectations and giving constructive feedback.
- Developing Future Leaders:
- By modeling servant leadership and making it part of an organization’s culture, current leaders can help develop future leaders who understand the importance of supporting their own teams.
Links
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Meet Tod
Tod has spent 30+ years as a leader and coach in various settings. While his path began on the athletic fields where he built championship teams in a variety of sports, Tod has been applying his teaching and coaching skills in the business world for more than a decade. Focused on helping teams of all kinds become their best, Tod has been able to translate the lessons learned on the field into improvements in performance and culture in the workplace. Tod completed an MS in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and continues to commit to his own growth as a professional. His approach to teaching and coaching is based on a deep understanding of how the human brain works, especially as it’s facing transformation. While his coaching and training sessions cover much ground related to human behavior, his work frequently helps clients shift mindsets, improve emotional intelligence, and operationalize servant leadership. Tod’s clients have improved personal performance, rebuilt struggling cultures, and created work environments that are inclusive and challenge each team member to bring their best work to the table every day. Tod is best known as a motivator. He has built a reputation based on his honest and genuine approach. Helping others embrace adversity and achieve excellence remains the driving force in his life.
