That's not leading. It's a cop out

Is this the way it should be done?

Can you help me?

I can’t do it like you?

Take a look at this?

Can you re-do this for me?

If you’re a leader when do these questions ever get to be too much?

Sometimes the questions don’t always come with the words. Sometimes they come in work not done right. Repeated mistakes. The missed deadlines. And so  as a leader, you want to do it all but you can’t, else you render the team irrelevant and you become depleted.

Seth Goodin made a good point last week. He said that  people are just begging to be told what to do and atributes the reason to this: "If you tell them what to do, the responsibility for the outcome is yours, not theirs. They are  safe."

But  that’s not leading, it’s a cop out.

When asked, guide, provide direction, toss in a new ways of thinking  but never the full answers, every and all the time. And  please, don’t take over the workload.

For you, it will  be the only way to carve out the time to lead. For them, it’s the only way to build critical thinking skills.