You’re the leader on your team or in your organization because you have a specific set of skills and abilities that provide value to the organization.
That doesn’t mean, however, you’re the only person with smarts, insights, aspirations, vision, and knowledge. In fact, if you’ve done your job well, you hopefully have a ton of talented people all around you who can contribute significant value to your business.
However, one of the big mistakes leaders make is that they assume they are the only person in the room with the smarts and the insights to make things happen. Sadly, that kind of assumption derails employee, team, and organizational growth, and discourages people from showing up at their best.
If you want to inspire growth across your organization and in the lives and careers of your people, you need to invite their input. You need to ask them how they see what your organization is doing or going through, what they’d do if they were in your seat, and where they’d go in a different direction (and why). When you do this, you both inspire the team to think differently and grow, and you also surface dozens of great ideas that you may not have thought of without their input.
This quick clip of my conversation with my good friend, Dr. Patton McDowell, MBA, CFRE (Founder of PMA Nonprofit Leadership, and Host of Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership) , we talk about this very thing. Patton shares his thoughts on how leaders can most effectively invite team input and create space for everyone to contribute value to the organization.
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