Chad SilversteinBuilt To Lead · Entrepreneur , Advisor, & Thought Leader

If you want to avoid crippling your team, you have to learn to let them answer and solve their o...

Name: If you want to avoid crippling your team, you have to learn to let them answer and solve their o...
Uploaded: 2024-08-29T16:00:41+00:00
Duration: 37 s
Channel: Chad Silverstein
Description: Chad Silverstein advises leaders to resist immediately answering team members' questions. Although providing solutions is tempting and can move work…

29 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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Chad Silverstein advises leaders to resist immediately answering team members' questions. Although providing solutions is tempting and can move work forward quickly, doing so habitually disempowers team members and creates dependence. The clip emphasizes enabling others to solve problems themselves to build capability.

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One of the things you can do as a leader is not answer their questions. And as someone who likes to solve problems and someone who likes to, you know, be someone that people look to, to, to get some advice and be able to figure out how to overcome a challenge, it's really, really hard to be able to just not answer something that you know the answer to. That can just give the person what they're asking, what they need in order to move that project forward. But the problem is, by solving the problem for the person who's coming to you, you cripple them and you basically do everything you can to not empower them, because they're going to be habituated to keep coming to you for all the problems.