This is the Jaco D. Brief Podcast Episode 11 with Lafe Babin and me, Jaco Willink.

Lafe?

Let's D. Brief.

What do you got?

So this particular leader was just over-tasked.

A lot of things going on with this particular leader.

And she was, she just, she had a lot of things on her plate.

And there are a lot of people moving in a lot of different directions.

And so what she was asking for was some help interviewing her people and trying to understand their strengths and weaknesses and trying to set them up for success to move them forward.

So it was, it was, we obviously, we talked to her about how we could help her and how we were going to improve the situation.

And I think particularly because of some of the COVID issues and people working remotely and there's a lot of people that are not in person.

And it's obviously harder to engage with people and you've still got pieces and parts of the company that are moving in different directions.

So she had her focus on that strategic growth that she needed to.

As we were digging into this, it was pretty clear to that this leader was very focused on efficiency and really wanted us to understand, like, build relationships for a team.

And so I was talking to her, I was like, listen, we can, I can interview your team and we can certainly focus a training effort, we can run that.

But I can't, I can't build relationships with you with the team.

And this is, you know, there were, there were, this was, there were some fairly new people on board the team as well.

So, you know, this, there's, there's some element that's just, you're never going to be able to delegate some element of like, okay, this is who I am.

I need to get to know you and we need to move forward together so we know each other, we have a relationship.

You know, and I, I, you know, I talked a lot about our relationship.

And as, you know, so many of the things that we were able to do and be successful in tasking in Brewster was just based on our, on our, the strength of our relationship, you know, moving forward.

And so you, you know, you initially had very tight reigns over me and provided a lot of guidance and mentorship to the point where I was like super frustrated.

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