When you see mistakes as an opportunity rather than a problem, you will become a more effective leader and someone people want to follow.
In today’s episode, I’m asking you a question, and that question is, can great leaders be gentle? If you make a list of adjectives to describe great leaders, gentle probably isn’t on that list. I mean, when you think of the word gentle, what do you think of? Do you think of things like soft or
Micromanagement. Leaders tell me all the time that they’re not doing it, but if I talk to their teams, I often hear something different. And here’s the thing, the other person decides if you’re micromanaging. It’s wonderful to think that you’re not. But the reality is, if the person you’re leading or managing thinks you are, then you are. Because
Micromanagement. We’ve all experienced it. No one likes it. But why is it such a problem?Micromanagement promotes compliance.Micromanagement scrunches initiativeMicromanagement reduces trustMicromanagement dampens innovation.Any of these reasons is enough for us to stop micromanaging. But let’s think now about us as the leader. How does it hurt us beyond all those other things? Follow The
This is the last in a series of videos about reasons to ask. You can watch the earlier episodes here: Asking for Help | Asking for Input In this episode, I am talking about how we can ask to better understand each other in conversations and in communication – both as a listener and as a speaker. Follow The
This is the second in a series of videos about reasons we should ask. In the first first video, we talked about asking for learning. In this video, we’re asking for input. Now they may seem similar, because when we ask to learn, we may get input. But here we’re talking about input for some different
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