013: Coaching Your Team In Effective Management

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Are you actively managing your leaders? </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Training them, working with them to hone their leadership skills? Helping them to figure out the road to great leadership?</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Or do you just let your team of managers get on with it because you are hands-off?</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you are a hands-off manager of managers, even if that is the style of management you liked at that level, you are leaving opportunity on the table.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite what you might hear, no one is born a perfect leader. Some do have more intrinsic leadership skill than others, but everyone needs to develop and hone their leadership and management. So leaving your new managers to figure out how to navigate a new role as a team lead, a general manager or even a VP is a recipe for many bumps along the road or worse. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But having an attitude of ‘my door is open, come to me for help’ doesn’t work either. Remember: they feel the need to prove themselves to you, and will try their best to not bother you.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s time to round the square peg so you and your team of managers all up-level, learn how to effectively lead in the way that works for them, but with your guidance as someone who was there before. And hint: using team meetings which focus on exception reporting won’t achieve this growth and development. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today’s Leading Women in Tech podcast I’m diving into how to help your managers remain autonomous, keep their new found confidence as a leader, but boost them up quickly and effectively so that you, your managers, their teams, and the entire business division benefits. It’s time to stop leaving the benefits of great management and leadership at every level of your organisation