Content from Marcel Schwantes
Marcel Schwantes is a speaker, author and leadership coach with a worldwide following. He is the creator of the highly rated From Boss to Leader course and host of the popular Love in Action podcast. His powerful keynotes teach leaders the steps to building great work cultures where people and businesses flourish.
‘Trust Falls’ Don’t Work: Understanding the Real Building Blocks of Corporate Culture
A common myth around corporate and HR circles is that team building activities and similar approaches like "trust falls" and other artificial (and often meaningless) contests pitting co-workers ...
Leader-Leader vs. Leader-Follower Cultures: How Great Leaders Share Leadership
We are on the home stretch for this series and will now focus on the sixth and last principle of what great leaders do differently: They share leadership. I hear a lot of language about how leaders ...
How Great Leaders Lead
As we build on the principles presented in this series on servant leadership, we get to a core idea that raises an obvious question. The core principle: Servant leaders provide leadership. The ...
How Great Leaders Build Community
Building community within an organization encompasses many activities, but here are three basic practices of great leaders. They develop strong personal relationships. This means spending time with ...
Developing People: It Matters to Great Leaders
As we build on the ideas presented in this series of articles, we focus on the third thing that great leaders do differently: They develop people. (All six traits of great leaders are summarized in ...
How Great Leaders Value Their Employees
Organizations of all sizes and industries are reimagining work cultures in this relationship economy. It's all about the people. Consequently, servant leadership quickly is becoming the preferred ...
How Great Leaders Display Authenticity
Today, we are finding that organizations around the world are changing their attitudes toward leadership. Leadership has been written and talked about for decades, with great authors defining it in ...
Making a Case for Servant Leadership
The question is one I have heard countless times over the years in my capacity as an executive coach: "What would you say are the traits that make a great leader?" It's not exactly a question that ...