{"id":50096,"date":"2020-05-19T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachingpartner.net\/cp\/?p=50096"},"modified":"2020-05-20T10:14:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T08:14:37","slug":"3-big-misconceptions-in-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachingpartner.net\/cp\/en\/3-big-misconceptions-in-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"3 big misconceptions in leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPic: Tim Gouw, unsplash.com<\/a><\/p>\n

1 – A leader should have all the answers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Quite the contrary, you work with brilliant people and they have tons to share with you and can\u00b4t wait to do so. Saying you don’t know shows to others you are confident in not knowing and also invites\u00a0them<\/em> to shine and grow. You will engage and motivate your colleagues and peers so much more by regularly stating:<\/p>\n

\u00b4I don\u00b4t know – what do you think?\u00b4<\/em><\/p>\n

2 – I have to be there to support my team<\/strong><\/p>\n

Quite the contrary. There\u00b4s a lot of hand-holding, over-caring and over supporting out there.\u00a0Your team shines and thrives when you step away from your team members regulary. You get to focus on what\u00b4s most important for you in your role and they get to do the same in their roles. That\u00b4s how you create amazing teams of fully motivated, committed and driven leaders. And that\u00b4s how you grow more leaders.<\/p>\n

– The ultimate goal of leadership is to grow more leaders<\/em><\/p>\n

3 – Micromanagement is a horrible thing<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u00b4s not. Many times as the leader you are the one who has the most experience. Then it makes sense for you to train, give detailed instructions, and to set very clear expectations for your team. Yes, too much is definitely too much, but we all need a little bit of micromanaging and it\u00b4s essential in getting everyone into systems and processes and establishing shared working norms and routines. Yes, it can be a bit tedious, but nevertheless, a good dosage of micromanaging is just as valuable as asking open questions, listening and making sure all everyone has the freedom to do their work in their own unique ways.<\/p>\n

Leadership balance<\/strong>
\nIn leadership we need a little bit of everything to create a good balance.
\nWe need to micromanage and instruct, but we also need to coach, listen, and give recognition.
\nWe need to set overall direction, but we also need to let people decide specifically where to get to and work out how to get there themselves.<\/p>\n

Allowing a little bit of everything means things come into balance.<\/p>\n

And things in balance grow.<\/p>\n

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Pic: Tim Gouw, unsplash.com 1 – A leader should have all the answers Quite the contrary, you work with brilliant people and they have tons to share with you and can\u00b4t wait to do so. Saying you don’t know shows to others you are confident in not knowing and also invites\u00a0them to shine and grow. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":50130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[506,17,182,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-see-all-categories","category-blog-en","category-1-leadership","category-2-team"],"wps_subtitle":"By Vegard Olsen","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachingpartner.net\/cp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachingpartner.net\/cp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachingpartner.net\/cp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachingpartner.net\/cp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachingpartner.net\/cp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50096"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/coachingpartner.net\/cp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50378,"href":"https:\/\/coachingpartner.net\/cp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50096\/revisions\/50378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachingpartner.net\/cp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachingpartner.net\/cp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachingpartner.net\/cp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachingpartner.net\/cp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}