Leadership is empowering and serving people to do their best work

[Joywtseo421]

Right this wrong: Start practicing confronting “same-day”. You can do this via email or any other area in which you feel comfortable (we use our intranet, email and our feedback platform iRevu). It may shock you how many problems have simple and effective solutions when confronted right away. Confront and learn and then lead.

Confusing leadership with enabling.
Guh. Yet another role I’ve confused in my lifetime. Enablement is doing that work for them. Leadership is giving people enough feedback to make the next great decision for their work and empowering others to succeed. Enablement is peru phone number library turning yourself into a bottleneck in order to feed your own ego. Leadership is graciously giving credit for a job well done, even if you feel you were pivotal in getting it there. Enablement is insisting everyone know you were the actual hard worker. See the difference? Enablement keeps your people green, scared and doesn’t allow them to take credit for a job well done (or accountability for a job NOT so well done.) Leadership creates a culture where people swing for the fences, are accountable for their work, empowers others to succeed (which is how 50% of millennials define leadership) and eventually see how some things are a team effort.

Right this wrong: Recognize when you’re enabling (and micromanaging) and then discuss it in very plain terms. Say “I know in the past, I’ve simply taken this over from you and that was not the right way to handle it. It may take a little longer to get this right, but I would like you to fix this problem with guidance from me, input from the team, your own experience and research if needed.” If you feel a deadline is warranted so you can check in on progress, assign one, but do it with a loose hand.

Thinking productivity = impact.
This is difficult to identify and also requires the confrontation piece. You can stay late every day of the week, you can reach the end of the work week totally fried, you can feel like you are giving your all and still be a mediocre employee. If you are not reaching your peak impact, productivity or just actual “work” can feel like a moot point. It was this realization that pushed forward the rise of ROWE that started in the last decade or so and has largely morphed into the “unlimited vacation” and “work-flex” environments of today. Of the companies who implement work flex, 71% saw an increase in productivity. In fact, you need both productivity and impact for lots of reasons: