4 | The Case for Values-Based Leadership: Maximizing People and Profitability
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What You Can Do
• Read current and seminal books on values
based or servant leadership. Learn whether
it reflects your own beliefs and experience
of what kind of leadership is required in
today's world.
• Seek to be a person of influence in your
organization, wherever you are on the
organizational chart.
• Identify your own values. Define how you
seek to "live your values" in your everyday
actions.
• Examine your organization's vision and
values. How closely are they "lived," how
are they used as guides in communications
and decision making? One CEO said, "If it
doesn't fit with our vision and our values, it's
not the right decision."
• Work in your sphere of influence, one-to-
one or in your team, group, or department.
Encourage conversations about culture,
leadership, vision, and values. Build
connection and alignment to a defined
vision and set of values.
• Develop trusted relationships at the senior
level of leadership. Seek to influence senior
level conversations that revisit, revitalize,
or freshly create a commitment to a culture
that inspires a vision for the greater good
and that demonstrates its values in everyday
action.
• Be willing to be an organizational "change
agent" that helps build a coalition of other
change agents, sponsored by the CEO,
who will create a clear set of actions for
strengthening your leadership culture.
* Source: The Business Case for Servant Leadership, 2009,
Frick, et al.
About the Author:
Jeanne McGuire is a senior trainer and consultant for Corpo-
rate Education Group. She has over 20 years of experience
in the areas of organizational development consulting and
training and has lectured at Harvard University's School of
Social Planning, the National Vocational Center at Ohio State
University, the University of Rome, and other academic and
corporate institutions on models of motivation and training
for a diverse work force. She provides facilitation to executive
teams in customer-focused change initiatives and strategic
planning and customized skill training programs in marketing,
process improvements, customer service, management, team,
and project development. Jeanne has designed 45 training
programs and has directly trained more than 20,000 individu-
als. Clients characterize her as a "skilled and effective facilitator
and presenter and a creative training designer who under-
stands processes and what needs to be achieved."
