Leadership Foundations
Servant Leadership
Support employee growth and remove barriers while still holding people accountable in daily management.
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Participants explore servant leadership in daily management through common workplace situations. The course shows how to remove barriers, support growth, and maintain accountability and apply those decisions on the job.
What you'll learn
- Explore the philosophy that involves focusing on employees and their successes, which in turn builds better professional relationships
- Develop techniques to break down barriers to servant leadership
- Apply best practices for cultivating characteristics of a servant leader
- Use course methods to remove barriers, support growth, and maintain accountability in a workplace scenario.
- Develop a servant leadership behavior plan aligned to a relevant work need.
What you'll be able to do
- Identify a workplace need connected to servant leadership in daily management.
- Select an appropriate way to remove barriers, support growth, and maintain accountability.
- Explain the reasoning behind that choice and identify its limitations.
- Produce a servant leadership behavior plan that addresses a relevant work need.
- Set review points for a servant leadership behavior plan and identify one adjustment.
Servant leadership puts the success of employees and the mission at the center of how a leader works. This course helps federal supervisors and managers remove barriers for their teams, support employee growth, and maintain clear accountability for results. Participants explore what servant leadership looks like in daily practice and how it strengthens trust, engagement, and performance.
What you'll learn
- Explain the principles of servant leadership and their value in public service.
- Identify barriers that keep teams from performing at their best.
- Apply practices that support employee growth and engagement.
- Balance support for employees with accountability for results.
- Develop a servant leadership action plan.
What you'll be able to do
- Remove obstacles that slow their team down.
- Support employees' growth and development.
- Build trust through consistent, people-focused leadership.
- Hold employees accountable while supporting their success.
- Strengthen team engagement and performance.