Category: Developing Others
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Micromanage vs. Abandon: 2 Ways Leaders Get Delegation Wrong
Delegation is supposed to free leaders to focus on strategy and grow their teams, but too often, it goes sideways. Why? Because leaders confuse delegation with one of two extremes: Extreme #1: Micromanagement This is when you hand off a task but keep every decision in your hands. Micromanagement doesn’t build trust, it trains people…
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Leaders Need to Simplify the Problem
The best leaders can take the most complex issues and simplify into terms that everyone can relate to. When faced with an issue, look at what the impacts of NOT solving it are and then paint that vision for your team. They will be able to solve a well defined problem if you give them…
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Can Words Change the World?
I would love to hear your thoughts on this quote. I can see how an idea could incite action, but without action words are useless. Thoughts?
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Empower
We talk a lot about empowering and delegating; however, when the person makes a mistake, we are prone to step in and take over. Empowering another is giving them power to control that thing. When a mistake is made, coach, mentor, and hold them accountable. Don’t take the thing from them…they’ll never learn that way.
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Go Earn It!
It is scary to think of all the opportunities I have missed by “hoping” someone would do something for me. It took me 39 years to realize that we are all trying to succeed in our own way and no one is responsible for my future except me. Sure there are those great mentors who…
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Good Times Make Weak Leaders
Good times make weak leaders. Weak leaders make bad times. Bad times make good leaders. Some of the times I have grown the most were when I was working for a bad boss. I did not like the way the team was treated and had to learn things on my own. Bad leaders made me…
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Develop Your Team
This is a very powerful notion for NCOs and SNCOs. We spend more of our time focussed on ensuring our teams are doing the right things. If we spent more time developing our teams, they would be better equipped to take care of the mission. Develop your team and let them do the rest.
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Be Humble
This is such a simple concept for leadership. We can all do this. We don’t have to have the charisma or even the experience. We just need to be humble. Not the type of humble that people like to trample on, door mats are not humble. We need to take action to help others succeed.…
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Add Value to Your Team
I don’t think I could any wisdom to the Dalai Lama. I do think this is a great mandate for those with any form of leadership role. We have to set them up to be successful without you and still seek ways to continue to add value into their lives. I love how this is…
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Daily Deliberation: 30 December
This is something so few of us will actually try. Two things have stopped me in the past: fear of what lies ahead. Will I fail? What would others think? AND lack of experience. We can’t forge new paths if we don’t have the knowledge and training. The experience and courage to make new paths…
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