Stop
subtracting from your team!
Currently
I am leading a group mastermind as well as coaching an individual client on
John Maxwell’s, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. As a certified John
Maxwell Team independent coach, trainer, and speaker, I have the ability to
share such incredible intellectual content.
This week
we have been discussing the Law of
Addition which states that leaders add value by serving others. In this
particular chapter, John shares a challenging statistic. Ninety percent of
leaders who subtract from their teams, due so unintentionally. However, ninety
percent of leaders who add value to their followers do so with intention!
Let’s think
about that for a minute. We can be detracting from some amazing staff members
without even knowing we are doing so. When we do not provide our full
attention, middle or mirco-manage, or simply get too preoccupied with our own
tasks, we do our team members huge disfavor.
On the
other hand, what have you done both intentionally and recently that added value
to a staff member? This is beyond the random acts of kindness. Such acts
should be premeditated for full effect! John goes on to instruct leaders
on how to add value:
We add
VALUE by VALUING others
We add
value when we KNOW and RELATE to what OTHERS value
We add
value when we make OURSELVES more VALUABLE
We add
value when we are WILLING to ACCEPT our OWN VALUE
So here is
my challenge for this week. Think of a staff member who needs either help or
recognition. What can you specifically for them that will make their day (or
week!)? Email me or post on my OLS facebook page below to share your story! I
would love to hear from you!
As always, if I can help you
Get Better, Be Ready and LEAD OUT LOUD, I would love to hear from you. Also, as
a bonus, if you go to my Out Loud Strategies website (www.outloudinc.com) and enter your contact
information, I will send you a FREE guide to establishing a mentoring
initiative program in your organization! Such an initiative would be critical
in order to add value to your organization!
Yours
in Leadership,
Bill
Faulkner
Co-Founder
– Out Loud Strategies
Independent
Coach, Speaker, and Trainer with the John Maxwell Team TM
Email = bill@outloudinc.com
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