Leaders who don't explicitly ask their teams for help get excuses later. Share your strategic direction, the reasoning behind it, and what you need. People closest to the work have insights leaders miss, and involving them prevents the default response of "nobody asked me."
If we just take the upfront time and we help everyone understand where we're going and why and what needs to happen for the organization to even simply continue. Sometimes it's not even a matter of growth. Sometimes it's just a matter of, you know, maybe we're losing funding here and we need to develop this new region. There can be a lot of things involved that the people sitting in that room know they're not qualified to do or know they don't have time to do. But if you don't ask, The response is, "Well, you never ask me." Avoid the ability for people to say the common thing.
