Good afternoon, Team! It’s (Good) Friday!

Sometimes good leadership can be defined by what not to do. I’ve witnessed where passionate, driven and fairly intelligent people in leadership positions try to get things done by telling other passionate, driven and intelligent people in other levels of leadership positions how to do their job.

•Work in the office where I can see you•

Track your progress this way

•Call this contact at this time and get this point across

It typically doesn’t go well. You get an immediate response and maybe short-term compliance followed by disgust, frustration and burn out. Then they leave. Because they weren’t given autonomy, trust and creative license.

Rather than tell someone how to do something, if you are clear with the results and the reason, people will walk through fire, give up sleep and make you proud.

•I need that estimate by Friday so we can win that work

•Can you finish those performance reviews by next Wednesday so we can get the raised processed and reward our employees?

•Please line up that engineering proposal by the 15th so we can get started on the next phase of this project.

*Oh, by the way, please let me know if you need anything from me.

Your Team wants to do a good job. They deserve your support and they want to take ownership of the task, the initiative, the project. They want the ball and they want to learn how to score without you chirping in their ear every step of the way.

Sometimes the simplest things make all the difference.

Have a blessed (Easter) weekend!

He is risen indeed!