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How to Coach and Lead Your Team for Success.

20 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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This YouTube video (How to Coach and Lead Your Team for Success) provides practical leadership advice focused on coaching team members. The speaker emphasizes accepting that team members will make mistakes, using those moments to coach by asking reflective questions (e.g., "what could you have done differently?"), and cites concepts from Dan Martell. The segment contrasts transactional leadership (assign tasks and check completion) with transformational leadership (delegate outcomes and let people decide how to achieve them), illustrated with a client graphic-design delegation example.

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Yeah, like, they're probably gonna mess up. That's normal. That's what happens. Right? But, like, you just have to be okay with that. And then you go to them and you coach them and you say, like, hey, what do you think you could have done differently here? Like, what do you think would. Like, if you don't let them mess up, they're not gonna learn. But the way you want to think about it, too, and this is in that. That book by Dan Martell, too. So I just. I'm stealing some of his concepts here. But, like, the thing you want to think about is, like, there's two different types of leadership. There's transactional leadership, and then there's transformational leadership. And so for transactional, it's what you're doing right now. It's, I have a task, I assign the task, and then I check to make sure it got done right. Whereas transformational leadership is when you then say, hey, I'm going to delegate the outcome. So, hey, handle all of our clients graphic design requests. That's the outcome, and then they figure out how to do it.