Legendary Service: The Key is to Care 

As we explore the spiritual discipline of service this month, there is no surprise that the lessons we learn cross over to our daily lives—and can positively impact organization success!

These questions are common:

1. Why is customer service important?     

Most answer that if their customers are happy, they’ll come back; and we’ll be successful.

2. What do you want your customers to know?  

Most answer that they want customers to know they care about them so customers will keep coming back.

Research shows that customers return because of the way the people make them feel. Sounds simple enough—let your customers know you care!

Ken Blanchard, Victoria Halsey, and Kathy Cuff took that idea to write their book entitled Legendary Service: The Key is to Care.

As the authors put it, “Leaders will discover how creating a Culture of Service begins with practicing a service mindset with their people so they will care for customers in a way that can significantly impact the organization’s bottom line.”

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Servant Leadership in Action

The world is in desperate need of a different leadership role model. We all have seen the negative impact of self-serving leaders. A major goal of Ken Blanchard is to prove that servant leadership has application in both secular and spiritual leadership in every kind of organization, including businesses, government agencies, educational institutions, and places of worship.

Two thousand years ago, servant leadership was central to the philosophy of Jesus, who exemplified the fully committed and effective servant leader. Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela are well-known modern examples of leaders who have exemplified this philosophy.

As John C. Maxwell observes, “When you become a leader, you give up your right to think of yourself first. Servant leadership is about always putting others first.”

Leaders throughout the world will be people who, in Robert K. Greenleaf’s terms, “serve first and lead second.”

Ken Blanchard’s Servant Leadership in Action: How You Can Achieve Great Relationships and Results features forty-four renowned servant leadership experts and practitioners—prominent business executives, bestselling authors, and respected spiritual leaders—who offer advice and tools for implementing this leadership model.

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