Why Leaders Should Make a Habit of Teaching

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🗓️ 9 January 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Sydney Finkelstein, a professor of management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, encourages leaders to approach their direct reports like teachers. As Finkelstein explains, being a teacher-leader means continually meeting face to face with employees to communicate lessons about professionalism, points of craft, and life. He says it’s easy to try and that teaching is one of the best ways to motivate people and improve their performance. Finkelstein is the author of “The Best Leaders Are Great Teachers” in the January–February 2018 issue of Harvard Business Review.

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0:00.0	How do you navigate gender in your workplace?
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0:28.7	A B A Cast from Harvard Business Review.
0:30.7	I'm Sarah Green Carmichael.
0:33.0	My first job in journalism was as research assistant for Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper
0:37.3	columnist Ellen Goodman.
0:39.7	Each week she'd come up with a list of topics she was thinking about tackling and she would
0:44.2	ask me to do some digging except when there was a story so attention grabbing
0:48.6	that the column just seemed to write itself and those cases she'd just turned to me and say, well Sarah as an old
0:55.7	editor of mine used to say, when you have a fish in a barrel you might as well shoot it.
0:59.8	As someone who tended to overthink things, this lesson stuck with me.
1:05.0	Every industry has leaders who see themselves not just as managers, but as teachers.
1:10.0	And new research shows that it strengthens not only the manager employee bond, but also employee performance.
1:17.0	Sidney Finkelstein has studied how teacher leaders go above and beyond in mentoring the people who work for them. And he's here to talk about how it's an effort that every manager can and
1:27.0	should make.
1:28.9	He's a professor of management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College
1:32.8	and he's the author of The Best Leaders
1:35.4	are Great Teachers in the January, February 2018 issue
1:38.8	of Harvard Business Review.
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