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WHY YOU SHOULD NOT GIVE ADVICE TO YOUR TEAM

6 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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This content was created by Sean Glaze. This content was uploaded by Sean Glaze. This is a YouTube video titled "WHY YOU SHOULD NOT GIVE ADVICE TO YOUR TEAM" (created 2023-02-06). It contains a short leadership/coaching monologue by a single speaker (labelled SPEAKER A) arguing that effective leaders should stop giving advice and instead ask questions to develop, support, and encourage team members so they own both actions and results (example prompt: "What do you think you might do here to move forward?").

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So why should you stop giving advice to your team as an effective leader? Well, turns out you've probably reached your level of success and significance because you're great at solving problems. You're really good at fixing things, but the people on your team don't need to be fixed. They need to be developed and heard and supported and encouraged. And instead of giving your advice and shining the spotlight on what you might do or what you've done in the past, you're going to actually have far better results in developing your people if you will ask questions. See if you can find out from them where they are in terms of identifying what the real challenge is, and then ask this powerful question: What do you think you might do here to move forward? What do you think might be the best solution? And then after you validated their response and encouraged them to move forward, they're going to own not just the activity that follows but the results as well. That's what effective leaders do.