Delegation is a very important tool in your leadership tool kit. It often doesn’t get the priority that it deserves because the added value is unclear. Let’s have a look at all the value that delegation can add before discussing some simple guidelines to implement it.
The added value of delegation can be:
Trust
Can you think of […]
What inspires me is reading about leadership lessons of people who are successful and actually leading larger organizations. I have many favorite ones. Here are three of them:
1 – Keep sight of what really matters
This leadership lesson is best illustrated by the following story:
Walt Bettinger, CEO of to the Charles Schwab corporations, described in the […]
In my book, Leading through Change: six principles for leading people in unpredictable times, I discuss how important it is for any leader to have a vision. Surprisingly enough, creating a vision can be a very difficult task for leaders. I have spoken to managers who didn’t go further than expressing that they wanted to […]
Scenario:
Joel is frustrated. He was preparing the one-on-one with Claude when he realized that Claude hadn’t set up that meeting with the IT group. Grrrrrrr. Joe still remembers vividly that he had asked Claude to arrange the meeting, including the agenda. He asked when they were both getting a coffee at Starbucks before the all-staff […]
