Servant Leadership Journey at a Digital Services Corporate

2 Oct 2019

Topic: Servant Leadership Journey @ UST Global

Dr. Madana Kumar – Servant Leadership Evangelist, a passionate Thought Leader and Strategist on Leadership, and Organisational Learning who speaks at various forums like the NHRD, HR summit, CLO summit, ATD, etc. Currently balancing two roles. one in Corporate as the Vice President and Global Head of L&D at UST Global. Second in Theological Education as Director- Center for Leadership at South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration. He has dual Bachelor Degrees, a B.Sc (Physics) and a BE from the Indian Institute of Science. He holds an Advanced Diploma in Business Administration and Certificates on Leadership awarded by the Cornell University, USA. For his Doctoral work, Madana studied the application of Servant Leadership in Indian NGOs. Has won multiple awards nationally and internationally

Few questions I ask Dr. Madana Kumar on the relevance of Servant Leadership at larger companies and is it really possible to practice servant leadership and his tips and techniques who is driving this mission & practicing it internally at his company UST Global is as follows: Time Stamps: 5:46 to 37:28

You also call yourself `Servant Leader Evangelist’ what does that mean to you? Why this passion and how did this arise….on `Servant Leadership
How did you believe that the Servant Leadership style is appropriate for UST’s digital transformation journey?
How did you enable for leaders in UST to embrace it and scale-up, & to stay relevant and be part of this transformation journey?
Is there an issue in acceptance of Servant Leadership and how do you engage the direction?
How are you making the changes for people to adapt to servant leadership?
How did you enable the leadership buy-in to adopt servant leadership?
How this is being implemented in UST and how leaders across the system can adopt it in their daily work lives & advantages it can bring to them as a leader?
Does Servant Leadership enhance the Employee Engagement in your teams?
What is the Commitment from Management to the growth of people in business on Servant Leadership
How about `Global Servant Leadership’ in India as well as global at UST?
Where do you see this getting applied and breaking the myth and understanding the power of Servant Leadership?
How do servant leaders deal with the attention & power of servant leadership?
How many leaders will consciously and selflessly let the employees grow more than himself/ herself?
Are there any examples of servant leaders in our world and any companies who have adapted Servant Leadership? & where to find more information about Servant Leadership?

“Powerful question” to my guest to unveil for my listeners. to engage, enlighten and empower (& that’s the mission of my podcast too) Time stamp at 37:29 to 46:23

According to you, what is the “STAR” moment?
What “inspires you” to do everything that you do
If you owned the company, what’s one thing you would do differently in learning?
What are the three most important things you would like to accomplish right now?
What are your strengths?
What’s the best book you’ve read this year? or anytime you recommend for my listeners.
What are the characteristics of the best boss role models or mentors/coach you ever had? What made that person great?
Are there any tools that you use on a daily basis to be a better you?
Is there any habit, you are practicing which has made you successful in whatever you do?
Your advice for those who want to accelerate their career as a Servant Leader?

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