University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: July 2025

Practical Ways to Implement Servant Leadership in Your Daily Life

Servant leadership prioritizes the needs of others, fostering trust, empathy, and shared success over authority. This approach transforms leadership into a commitment to helping and empowering others. In this article, we will give a brief overview of what servant leadership is and then dive into how to proactively implement servant leadership values in your life …

Servant Leadership Certificate at Continuing Studies

This newly redesigned certificate examines the concepts, history, and real-world practice of servant leadership. A Servant Leadership approach emphasizes meeting the needs of the organization’s employees, customers, other stakeholders, and the broader community. This series will also emphasize participant clarification of personal values and the development of goals for how they will embody and apply …

Servant Leadership is Joy

Poet Ellen Sturgis Hooper reveals a little secret of life: “I slept, and dreamed that life was joy; I woke, and found that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” Source: The Dial (July 1840)   How can you connect this poem to servant leadership?

Finding Your Third Space – this month’s meeting topic

Many people believe our democracy is threatened. Why are we so deeply divided on some issues? It seems that mutual trust has all but disappeared. Richard Kyte, author of “Finding Your Third Place,” argues convincingly that we’ve lost too many places to socialize and develop trusting friendships. With home as First Place, and work as …

Hope is the key to a meaningful life

We’re featuring resources on hope following our session in June. ** “𝙃𝙤𝙥𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙠𝙚𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙖 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚, 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝.” A new study from the University of Missouri-Columbia Department of Psychological Studies shows that “hope stands apart as one of the strongest positive emotions that directly fosters a sense of meaning.” The …