Are you a multiplication sign or a division sign?

Imagine an average person produces a daily output of ten.  With good leadership and empowerment, you can help them to increase that number to a 15 or 20.  

With poor leadership, you can divide that number to five.

Are you a multiplication sign or a division sign?

"Let go to grow"

When someone starts a business they are doing everything themselves.  They make a habit of it and become fairly good at many of the business’s duties – and that becomes a problem. 

As they get too busy, they hire people.  They don’t have time to train them, empower them, and the people make some mistakes.  The leader says things like “If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself.”  The people they hired, leave.  They are stuck in a trap, and they may die there years later if they don’t figure it out.

You don’t scale.  You only have 24 hours in a day like the rest of us.  

Let go to grow.  If you don’t, you won’t.

If you have talent, you have permission!

If a team member of yours had the talent to do a project, solve a problem or get a tricky task done, do you say “Sorry, you just started here, we will have the senior people work on it?”

No!

Give all talent permission, no matter rank and title. 

"I'm in the right place"

New employees are looking for assurances that they picked the right place to work.

What assurances do you give them?

Create Clarity and Simplicity

You can’t hit unclear goals.

Neither can your people.

Complex goals are hard to chase and achieve.

Great leaders create clarity and simplicity for themselves and their teams.

Is that you?

People go where they are appreciated

So do you.

This is a very important lesson.

You are a leader.

What do you/are you/will you do with this idea that “people go where they are appreciated”?

People are withholding information from you.

The higher you climb up the ladder the worse your self-assessment is.  The problem is fewer people want to give you accurate feedback.  Maybe nobody.

Let’s face it, nobody will tell you – “Boss, your not doing a very good job”.

Invite assessments and criticism, and listen.  Ask “What would you do?” and “I need your help…”

Your people can see what you don’t.  Let them help you get better.

Avoid Busy

Make whitespace in your calendar.

That’s when you can think, strategize, recover from mistakes and be creative.

What do you hate to do that someone else loves?

What are you no good at that someone else is very good at?

Don’t do things you are not good at.

Be honest, swallow your pride, and delegate it.

"Give me something great to talk about!"

Leaders – your marketers and salespeople are saying – “Give me something great to talk about!”

If you do, you’ll make their jobs and lives a lot easier.

What are you giving them to talk about so it’s easier to market and easier to sell?