Lead Your People to Lead
Bigg success is life on your own terms. The five elements of bigg success are money, time, growth, work and play. Today we’ll focus on time.
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Bigg Question
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Renee called us with her bigg question. She’s been a manager for a few months. She’s having trouble getting all of her work done because her employees keep coming to her with problems that they could easily solve themselves. She feels herself getting more and more stressed about this situation. She wants our suggestions.
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Results, not tasks
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Renee, you’re not alone. This is a common problem with first-time managers. I’ve fought this myself. We’re told, “If you want the job done right, do it yourself.” So we don’t empower people like we need to so they feel comfortable making decisions. We need to help our people build their personal leadership skills.
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You do that by focusing on the results, not the tasks. It’s a conversation about the “what”, not the “how”. What are you trying to achieve as a group? Then break your overall plan into who is to do what by when.
Now every individual in your charge knows for what they’re responsible. Be sure they (and their peers) know they have the authority to do what needs to be done to reach the desired result.
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Guiding principles
Let them know you believe in them. Tell them you’re there to help them when they run into something they can’t solve on their own. However, there are two guiding principles when they think they need your help.
1st – If we’ve discussed it before, follow the precedent.
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There’s no need to rehash old turf. I want my people to show me that they can learn. I’ll tell them exactly that!
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You don’t want to hit your head into the same wall again and again. There will be challenges. Let’s make them new ones! I’m here to help you as long as we aren’t just dealing with the same old problem stated in a different way.
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2nd – When you present a problem, offer a solution.
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I remember discovering this principle, for exactly the reason Renee is saying in her question. I had to find an answer for people constantly bringing up problems without taking any responsibility for the solution. This guiding principle took care of that.
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Helping your people develop their personal leadership skills leads to bigg success … for them and for you!
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What have you done to get your people to take a leadership role?
Please share that with us by leaving a comment below, calling us at 877.988.BIGG(2444) or sending us an e-mail at bigginfo@biggsuccess.com.
Thanks so much for the gift of your time today. Please join us next time when we talk with a person who used vision boards to reach bigg success. Until then, here’s to your bigg success!
Direct link to The Bigg Success Show audio file:
http://media.libsyn.com/media/biggsuccess/00402-052709.mp3
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