Topic: Servant Leadership & Emotional Hijacking The learning and conversation this month will focus on what servant leaders do when they are emotionally hijacked! An emotional hijack is when something happens that activates the fight-or-flight response in our brains and bodies. Not only will we explore what happens when we become hijacked but how to […]
SERVANT LEADERSHIP COACHING CONVERSATIONS Questions that create the conditions for growth and success Servant-leaders are coaches. One of the keys to being an exceptional servant-leader coach is to ask questions...specifically, questions you don't already know the answer to. In this session, we will discuss and develop servant-leader coaching questions. Learning Facilitator: Christa Williams, Sophia Transformative […]
Topic: Building Trust as a Servant Leader During the October Community of Practice Sessions attendees will discuss: Why is trust important? Who is responsible for trust? What can I do to build it? In a time when polls show us public trust of leaders and the government is lower than any time since 1972, we […]
Being the Servant-Leader You Want to Be This session will focus on inspiration and practical application of the leadership lessons featured in the book Wisdom From The Woods, co-authored by Sophia foundress, Virginia (Ginny) Gilmore. Note: reading the book is helpful but not required to attend this session. There are so many leadership mis-conceptions […]
What Are You Trying to Do? Using Servant Leadership to Set Goals for 2021 With 2020 almost behind us, have you created servant leadership goals for 2021 yet? Robert Greenleaf, in his essay the "Servant as Leader," speaks to the importance of goal setting. He says, "A mark of a leader...is that he is better […]
Servant Leadership for 2021 - Thought leaders, resources, & recommendations There isn’t one way to ‘be’ a servant-leader. And, Robert K Greenleaf is not the only one who ever wrote about servant leadership. Some authors have narrowed servant leadership down to seven concepts, some have ten principles, others say it is only one core philosophy. In […]
This month's topic: It's Not About the Coffee In his book “It’s Not About the Coffee: Leadership Principles from a Life at Starbucks,” Former President of Starbucks International Howard Behar shares ten principles that have guided his leadership. In this session, Christa Williams, Executive Director and Learning Facilitator will kick off the 2022 servant leadership […]