146: Three Things to Stop Doing in Leadership, with Steve Richardson
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2014
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Steve Richardson: Become a Better Leader in 30 Days*
“All leaders manage, but not all managers lead.” -Steve Richardson
Three things not to do when managing people
- Avoid managing by suggestion
- Managers do this when they don’t want to be accountable
- What do people really want from leaders?
- Direct
- Decisive
- Avoid managing by hoping
- These managers maintain a positive attitude, but don’t really know how things are going
- Employees learn that managers like this want to hear only good news
- Avoid managing by redoing
- Some managers take on the work of employees and will re-do it
- This is trap for people who were the start performers in the previous role
- We mentioned episode #117: The Seven Steps You Follow To Delegate Work
“Doing something well myself is different than doing something well through other people.” -Steve Richardson
Ask: How can I help you?
- The response “fine” does not necessarily mean fine
- Ask the next question to find out what’s really going on
Steve’s triangle of managing people: Fair, Friendly, and Firm
- One of these will typically take the lead in one situation
- What does this person most need right now?
- It takes tension to keep them in balance
- Let intuition govern what takes the lead in any given situation
What should you stop doing?
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| 0:00.0 | We spend a lot of time on this show dialoguing about how to lead people today what to stop doing |
| 0:08.9 | Plus your input wanted on the Coaching for Leaders |
| 0:12.7 | listener survey. |
| 0:14.2 | This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 146. |
| 0:18.2 | Produced by Innovate Learning, |
| 0:20.6 | Maximizing human potential. |
| 0:23.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:29.0 | This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host host Dave Stahovia. |
| 0:34.6 | This is a weekly coaching show to help us all be better leaders |
| 0:39.4 | through improved communication, human relations, and personal productivity. |
| 0:45.0 | And if you're joining the show for the very first time, welcome. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm so glad that you're here. |
| 0:50.0 | This is the place. |
| 0:52.0 | If you want to get better at being able to work with |
| 0:54.9 | people, work through people, help people to be more productive, and oh by the way be a |
| 1:01.0 | lot more productive and effective at leading yourself. This is the place. |
| 1:05.5 | And I'm so glad you're here because today I have a guest with me who has done a lot |
| 1:11.2 | of thinking on helping people to become better leaders and just as importantly |
| 1:17.4 | if not more so has a lot of business experience and a great track record behind him too on helping people to improve their |
| 1:25.2 | leadership skills and he's broken it down in a way that helps it to be really accessible |
| 1:30.7 | and if you've listened to this show for any time you know that I'm a I'm a big believer in the |
| 1:35.1 | continual improvement process and also looking at ourselves first so we can lead even more effectively. |
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