“We miss the way you managed the project!”

After leaving my role as a project manager of a software development team, these words were the best gift I could’ve received.

It was a new team, a new innovative product development, and a new experience for me. I was not a developer, I did not have any agile training and I did not know how to contribute to the project efficiently. But I observed and kept note of what worked and what didn’t—which helped me develop my skills as a servant leader.

Servant leaders are a different breed—they flip the traditional leadership model on its head. Their main goal is to be of service to their teams instead of simply focusing on the organization.

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