If You Want Your Team to be Successful Stop Treating Them like Kids

Start trusting your people

Start trusting your people

What signal do you send to your team? — Photo by Kai Pilger

Leading is like parenting — everybody thinks they do a much better job than they actually do.

There’s a definite gap between how most executives assess themselves and how their direct reports do. Leaders and their teams seem to be watching two different movies.

What you give is what you get.

Organizations want employees to become more mature, accountable, and to drive change — yet their policies and rules treat people as kids.

My purpose is not to point fingers, but to invite reflection. Without realizing it, many executives act as Helicopter bosses: they have good intentions, but their need to control and protect their people doesn’t allow them to grow.

It’s time for leadership to grow up

“Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.” — John Wilmot

There’s a tension that keeps repeating over and over — when things don’t go well; there’s a tendency…