John Wetmore shares what he learned about spotting leadership potential and developing it in others. He talks about empowering people, teaching from his own mistakes, and the hard part: figuring out how to actually identify and grow future leaders.
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I think for me, dude, I've learned to like really watch for different qualities and see if I can challenge people more and empower people more. And, you know, I mean, make them feel like they can do something with the skills they have just on their own. That's— that helped me, kind of the combination of watching people drown and identifying people who naturally had leadership skills. And again, maybe I can add to them if I can, you know. And just as you know, teaching people the shit you messed up, they can— if they can get there a little quicker That's always been my goal, and it's, it's worked. I've definitely messed it up a lot, but the general concept works, you know. And I think for me, dude, I've never known who was going to break out. People always ask— someone asked me the other day, I bet you know how to identify a hot lead by now. Or people always ask me, how do you know who's going to be the next leader in your group? I'm like, bro, I have no idea. I have no earthly idea. I sucked ass at this for a couple years, for sure, you know. I just worked enough that I, I got by, you know. But it took me a few years to get like really effing good.