Name the one thing that is driving you nuts about your team, the one thing you wish you could change, the one thing that keeps you up at night and you wish you could change. Now, what are you doing about it? Maybe you can’t act and are waiting for someone to respond or do something. Maybe you are holding back for whatever reason – but that right there – is the number one killer…
I don’t think we are. I think we get the idea of it, we talk about it enough to have blogs on blogs on blogs about it. But we aren’t putting it into action, and when you aren’t putting it into action, where are you leading your team? We’re missing the goal for the purpose of saying that we lead.
You assume that when everyone arrives at the “Brainstorming” session that of course, they are all ready to “Brainstorm”. All ready to hear each other’s opinions. All ready to work together and bat around ideas. But it’s not always the case at which point you need to reiterate the goals of the session, why you are there, what you hope to achieve and what the end goal is moving forward.
Everyone does. Perhaps not all at once, perhaps there is a more present leader than others. But everyone on your team leads.
If every battle was an easy win, it wouldn’t be called a battle, it would be called a gimme. It would be an easy win. There would be no challenge. No purpose. No path. But an uphill battle? Well, that’s where it gets fun, because now it’s not a gimme, now you need to work for it.