This content was created by GHION.AI . This content was uploaded by GHION.AI . This is a YouTube video titled "Managing is Trusting People" created on June 24, 2020, discussing the transition from being an individual contributor to a manager, emphasizing the importance of empowering and trusting team members to solve problems collectively.
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The most surprising insight for me was realizing that as a manager, my job wasn't to do all of these things or all the things that needed to get done in the best way, or even to know how to do all of those things in the best way. The job was to help a group of people. You know, my team, the team that I was supporting, was to help empower them to be able to solve these problems collectively. And that's a huge transition because my instinct as an individual contributor was like, this is my project, or I need to figure out what the design is, or I need to figure out the solution, or I need to do X, Y and Z. And as a manager, I had to let go of that and I had to actually trust people. I had to change my thinking from how do I solve this problem? To who is best equipped to solve this problem? And what does that person need? What support structure, what resources, what cadence, whatever it is, what does that person need to be able to solve that problem? And there is a leap of faith that goes into that, right? You have to stop the wheel in your head that's trying to problem solve and instead turn it towards people, turn it towards process, and turn it towards how do we align around a common purpose.
