Welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast Reverb, a conversation designed to help leaders go even

further faster and this episode by digging deeper into our listener questions. I'm your host,

Susie Gray. Andy, we had so many thoughtful questions from our listeners that came in.

We wanted to make sure to answer as many as possible.

Yep.

So today we're jumping back in to answer even more of our listener questions.

So some are quick hits, some go deep, and all of them reflect real challenges leaders are facing right now.

So let's get into it.

All right.

The first one comes from CJ.

He says, how do you know when to step in and lead versus when to let others struggle and

learn?

This is a good question and it's tough because oftentimes the people who report to us when

they're kind of flagging, they're not doing so well, they're not,

you know, leading well. You know, it reflects on us. So, of course, we take it personally.

And of course, there's always going to be the temptation to step in, whether it's in the middle of an event, in a moment, in a meeting, and, you know, try to bail them out or fix

things. And that's generally a mistake, because especially if it's in public, because they will probably never recover.

It's so embarrassing.

So without knowing specifically the context, CJ is talking about, I say in general, you just let people struggle.

And then you evaluate.

This is what we talk about all the time.

You orchestrate and evaluate.

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