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Building Blocks of Serving Leadership

To build a great leader, you need to turn upside down the notion that great leadership trickles from the top down. Instead, they are built from the bottom up.

Vision

To co-create the Greatest Community on Earth

Values

United, Focused, Inclusive, Abundant, Mindful

Purpose

Provide and sustain an amazing living experience for all those who come to the area

Mission

• Through offering education, mentoring and role modeling, the Serving Leader Rochester members can strengthen the infrastructure of the individuals and community simultaneously. 
• To actively participate in cultivating the existing and natural abundance and wealth of the Rochester community, inviting new people to increase the opportunity filled communities that move us forward
• By individual contributions within our home, work and life integrating the principals of the Serving Leader Rochester

Our Rochester Group strives to create opportunities for: effectiveness, efficiency, profitability, and abundance for our schools, families, companies, and government bodies. We understand that this can be done through creating mindful ownership and investment in the the Human Factor of our communities, increasing connectedness and opportunity-filled communities that move us forward. We also endeavor to enhance the environmental factor: cultivating nutritious physical environments, safe and inviting neighborhoods, enhanced self-expression, and healthy living life-styles.  

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We've been inspired by these authors to move our communities forward:

• The Serving Leader, John Stal-wert & Ken Jennings
• Community: The Structure of Belonging, Peter Block
• The Abundant Community, Peter Block & John McKnight
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni
• The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz

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Fig. 3

Our Company's Story.

Serving leadership is sometimes perceived as “weak” leadership.  Many executives feel like “serving” is beneath their positions of power and they are going to lead, not serve.  Serving leadership is far from these perceptions.  The most effective way to make sure that your company succeeds is using the tools that Serving Leaders employ.  Putting employees first, empowering them to make decisions, ensuring emotional well-being, and clearing away barriers are some of the hall marks of a Serving Leader.  Focusing on Serving Leadership creates a work place that gets more accomplished, has lower turnover, and directly impacts the bottom-line. Employees are focused on your firm’s great purpose and have the tools to get it accomplished.  At Builders Exchange, we have used serving leadership to the great benefit of our members and we would not be as effective without it!

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Your Story.

Your company, team, class, and family, could be the next success story of the Serving Leader model.