“A New Look for Leadership: The Assertive Servant”Leadership has never been more important. Organizations rise and fall, in a chaotic world economy, on the skills of leaders. The ability to “sell” a vision of the future to a workforce requires a transformational, adult leader. This presentation is build around a unique paradigm: the assertive servant. This apparent contradiction in terms will provide the balance between “respect for the employee” and an equal amount of “respect for the task.” Skills Presented: (1) How to define leadership against the backdrop of chaos, (2) How to make organizational and personal values the foundation for leadership, (3) How to care for staff as valuable resources and still make production goals, (4) How to use the seven skills of the assertive adult to establish personal credibility, (5) How to produce accountability without filling out another form and (6) How to achieve “buy in” even though the workforce was not at the boardroom table when the future was decided. |