Most of us think of leadership as telling people what to do.  As we have discussed in our meetings, that is a false definition of leadership.  Leadership comes in many different forms.  One form is Servant Leadership.  Servant Leadership is based on showing (by doing) your leadership by serving, helping, assisting, or coaching someone to advance them or allow them to have success.  Servant leadership addresses 4 main questions in Leadership:

1. Who? – Who are you leading or serving?  Only the powerful people or only your boss?
   At Khidmah, we need to serve everyone and be a leader to everyone.
2. What? - What are your skills?  What are you good at?  What comes easily to you?
   What comes easy for you may be hard for someone else.  Use these skills to help others and lead others by serving them.
3. Why? - Are you only serving someone for you to get a promotion?  To get more pay?  |
   No, we need to serve others to allow them to grow as leaders.  Everyone should measure their success by the success of people around them.
4. How?  – How do you serve someone?  Do you do it with a smile or because someone is making you do it?
   Serve and lead by being positive.  The priority characteristic of the culture at Khidmah is “Being Positive, always Positive.”  Being positive is a choice, you can look at the good in every situation.  People want to follow a positive leader.

Questions to ask yourself:
Why is leading people by serving them so difficult and so hard to do?
What are you doing to make someone else better?

We have a saying at Khidmah – called HNL – Hole Nuther Level.  Yes, this is not spelled correctly, but that is what makes it fun.  Basically, HNL is that everyone is at some leadership level.  It should be everyone’s goal to get to the next level – or HNL.  So, the question (in Khidmah terms) is “What are you doing to help your Team Member get to a HNL?

Last Question to think about: How hard is it to Serve or Lead someone who does not want you to succeed?  This is a HNL of leadership.