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Empowering people

Empowering people

From the course: Building High-Performance Teams

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Empowering people

- For you to get the most out of the members of your high performing team, you need to empower them. Remember, on a high performing team, those team members are typically very self-motivated, and they like being self-directed. You need to understand how letting go of your agenda, creating space for them to flourish, and then accepting that there are different ways of doing things is going to bring out the best in your people. Setting direction is critical for those people, but then as the leader, you need to get out of the way and let them run. I like to use what I call a concept of lanes where you set a direction for a team member and say the goal is here, and here are the boundaries within which you can operate. But it's up to you to decide how you get from here to that goal. You'll also need to accept, if you're giving them those lanes, that there are different ways of doing things. A team member may take an approach that you fundamentally disagree with. The measure of a good…

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