Bradley HamnerFounder, BlueprintOS · Founder - Above the Business & BlueprintOS

Assumptions in Leadership with Randy Gravitt

Name: Assumptions in Leadership with Randy Gravitt
Uploaded: 2024-08-03T04:00:16+00:00
Duration: 56 s
Channel: Bradley Hamner
Description: In this excerpt, the speaker argues that many workplace assumptions arise because leaders fail to take responsibility for breaking down tasks and…

3 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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In this excerpt, the speaker argues that many workplace assumptions arise because leaders fail to take responsibility for breaking down tasks and training their teams. Drawing on a personal anecdote from coaching high‑school girls’ basketball, he emphasizes the value of aggressive action, even if it’s initially wrong, over passive correctness. He advocates hiring primarily for character traits such as passion and energy, then providing training to develop the necessary skills and competencies. Finally, he stresses that a leader’s duty is to clearly communicate what employees should do, why it matters, and to connect purpose, expectations, and impact, which he describes as creating “magic.”

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I think sometimes these assumptions, uh, happen because we didn't accept responsibility for breaking it down and training them. And I'll say this, I actually coached basketball years ago as well, for years, and I was, I was a girls high school coach for about a decade, and I always would tell the girls, I would rather you do the wrong thing aggressively than the right thing passively. Now, I'd rather you do the right thing aggressively, but That's just a reminder. Let's start with the character side or the passion side or the energy side in the business case. You want your people, you want to hire for that. You want to train for the skills and the competencies. And so you can, I mean, you literally can Google all that stuff, but you want to make sure you start with the right substance stuff, energy, all that stuff. If you've got that, then it's your responsibility as a leader to make sure they know what they're supposed to be doing, why it matters, all that stuff. I mean, you connect those dots, you get all that together and it's magic.