Voice Booklet 3: Anatomy of a Collaboration: An Act of Servant Leadership

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For those curious about collaboration and its practical application, this essay is instructive and encouraging. It chronicles and analyzes the years-long collaboration between the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership and the National Association for Community Leadership (now called Community Leadership Association) which culminated in the 1999 joint conferenceNavigating the Future: Servant-Leadership and Community Leadership in the 21st Century.

This essay highlights an element of successful collaboration seldom discussed: attitude as a determinant of behavior. The author maintains that effective collaboration requires an attitude embodied by Robert Greenleaf’s test of servant-leadership.

Wendell J. Walls, CAE, served as President and CEO of the National Association for COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP from 1988-1998. He served the Greenleaf Center as its Director of Development from 2000 – 2003.