Marc Haine discusses how to spot when you and your team are out of alignment, and the biggest trap new leaders fall into: trying to fix everything themselves instead of finding what's actually broken. The real move is addressing the missing piece, not becoming the hero.
Anything that they should be cautious about as they start exploring how to get back into alignment?
Sure. The first thing is to recognize that they're not in alignment. And I'm going to say, and this is a bold statement, but the vast majority of them won't be. There might be 90%. There might be 99%. There might be 70%. But there will be an element that is missing there. So, go and look for it because once you fix that problem, it will be there. But from a more practical, personal manager leader's point of view, the pitfalls from that point of view are I very often found that people try and become the hero. It's all on me. I'm the leader. I have to fix this. I have to get this done. It's down to my experience. The operator who's the employee who's becoming a manager, I know how to do the job. My team don't. I'll jump in and I'll do it all for them.
