is Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter’s book, What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful. The authors call this behavior “adding too much value.”
In my example, it may take a little extra time to finalize the work, but that short extra time is worth it as your team members get to own the final product.
Bring Out The Best in Them
As a leader, how do you bring out the best in your employees?
These strategies are some of my favorites.
I let them know what I see in them, what I appreciate about them.
When in meetings, I let others contribute their ideas without shooting them down.
When you don’t hear ideas from your team, ask yourself, “How am I contributing to this situation?” Check in and ask yourself, “How am I reacting when a team member shares? What kind of comments do I make?” And you may learn that you’re the culprit, your reactions or follow-up comments.
Solicit input from the team and encourage team members to share their ideas, especially women, who when outnumbered by men, sometimes tend to hold back.
The other two factors influencing collective intelligence—social perceptiveness, or social sensitivity of group members, and the number of women, whom on average score higher on social perceptiveness—I will be writing about in a future article, stay tuned.
Give credit where credit is due, generously. This is important in a team environment. It lets your team know you value and appreciate their