From the course: Developing Your Leadership Philosophy
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Motivating, inspiring, and developing people
From the course: Developing Your Leadership Philosophy
Motivating, inspiring, and developing people
- As a leader one of your chief responsibilities is developing the members of your team. Great leaders build more leaders. You have to commit to their growth, create new opportunities for them to expand and learn new skills. Now that's hard to do because for somebody to learn a new skill you're going to create an opportunity for them to do something they may not have done before. And in doing that you create risk because that individual might fail. And if they fail that failure reflects on you. So a lot of times we're afraid to take those risks on people to create those growth opportunities. That's why you need a maxim to remind yourself that one of your chief responsibilities is doing that development work for the members of your team. My maxim to remind me that my chief responsibility is developing those people is it's easier to correct course 100 yards into the journey than 100 miles. I had a member of my team who was having some problems. And one day he gave me some numbers and a…
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