The Art of Servant Leadership

Luke Pivac
Agile | Adapt
Published in
7 min readMar 30, 2020

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Through building relationships, managing expectations and delegation.

This article is broken into three important sections and explores each technique with some useful insights on how to become a successful servant leader and inspire success through collaboration with your team.

The Art of Building Relationships

Building relationships with your team leads to successful outcomes — here is some tips…

As a Servant Leader, building relationships is fundamental to be a successful agile practitioner, scrum master or product owner. In my opinion, it is only second to removing impediments — if you are a scrum master.

Did you know…

Nearly seventy percent of team members want more to spend with their leaders. It helps provide guidance, clarity and certainty. It is clear that working relationships affect the outcomes of your team’s work.

Building relationships is more important than ever, to help teams respond to change quickly, they need positive leadership to support and reinforce them.

What you need to do

It is important that servant leaders get to know their teams on a personal level.

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Luke Pivac
Agile | Adapt

An experienced delivery leader - helping teams succeed by using an adaptive-mindset. Thought-leader and published author. PSM-1, MSP5, ICP-ATF, ICP-APM, ICP-DAS