March 29th, 2022
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Virtual Zoom Meet up
Registration ends at noon on March 24th to allow for the completion of required documents!
Servant leaders provide a host of benefits to the individuals and organizations they serve. Followers of servant leaders enjoy better work life balance, improved individual and team performance, and more positive organizational climates and working environments, among a many other benefits. In response, a growing host of companies are searching for a way to increase servant leadership among their workforce. While many servant leader consulting and training programs exist, our scientifically validated program promises concrete improvements in leadership excellence. This program employs cutting edge interdisciplinary techniques in psychology and business research to develop leaders for the future.
Our session focuses on aspects of self as they relate to servant leadership. We provide participants an opportunity for self-discovery and introspection as a foundation for creating a course of action for development as a servant leader. This program involves three parts.
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Part 1: A video introduction and self-knowledge exercise employing scientific assessments of participants’ personality, preparedness, and other leadership-related ideas.
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Part 2: A video introduction to servant leadership and an introspection exercise identifying strengths, barriers, and obstacles they bring to the practice of servant leadership.
Both of these “homework” assignments can be completed at your convenience or as part of an in-person workshop. We will send personalized Qualtrics links on Thursday, March 24th. Plan on ~75 minutes total for both parts, and you do not have to complete it all at one time. Please complete this by Monday, March 28th Noon.
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Zoom Debrief, Coaching, and Group Discussion: The workshop culminates in an interactive discussion drawing from our research experience to integrate individual feedback assessments and introspection with a deeper understanding of servant leadership to identify a course of action for personal leadership development - Tuesday, March 29th 5:30-7:00 pm
Participants can expect to leave with a sense of a few critical areas for self-improvement with respect to growing as a servant leader. We provide feedback reports, including survey instrument scores.
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About the Architects
Jeremy D. Meuser, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor of Management, University of Mississippi) brings an eclectic background to the study of leadership, holding degrees in computer engineering, philosophy, and spirituality, and a Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Illinois at Chicago and entrepreneurial and managerial experience in the private sector in information technology, high school teaching, and internships in the medical field. He published servant leadership research in the Academy of Management Journal, Business Horizons and The Oxford Handbook of Leadership in Organizations. He is an associate editor for leadership articles at Group and Organization Management and the Journal of Managerial Psychology and an editorial board member at The Leadership Quarterly. Dr. Meuser’s teaching experience includes leadership development. He currently serves as Co-president of the Network of Leadership Scholars. He was selected as a 2021 Western Academy of Management Ascendant Scholar, a prestigious award given to the very best early career scholars in Management, recognizing excellence in research, service and teaching.
Jarvis Smallfield, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral research associate at the National Center for Professional and Research Ethics (NCPRE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a business scholar conducting research in the areas of servant leadership and the interaction between the organization and personality. Jarvis seeks to improve business performance and the quality of work environments by helping companies maximize the value each of their employees’ contributes to the organization and especially by helping leaders excel in their roles. Jarvis holds a PhD in Business Administration from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Don Kluemper, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Management and Director of the Institute for Leadership Excellence and Development (iLEAD) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Don’s research has been published in outlets such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Organizational Behavior, The Leadership Quarterly, among others. In addition, some of Don’s research has been featured in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, and National Public Radio. Don was formerly Director of Human Resources of a 250+ employee non-profit organization.
Daniel Cervone, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Oberlin College, and his Ph.D. at Stanford, where his graduate advisor was Albert Bandura. His research has addressed issues in social-cognitive analysis of personality and behavior including self-efficacy processes, self-regulation, and the influence of affective states on thinking about the self. In recent years his main effort has been to advance a model of the overall architecture of cognitive and affective personality systems: The Knowledge and Appraisal Personality Architecture or KAPA model, which was first published in Psychological Review and upon which this workshop is based.
