Leaders are always more successful when they help their people to develop (grow) faster. Now, it is first about picking the right people, and those are the people who take ownership for their own development.
However, the leader has to take ownership for their development too. Many leaders are always looking for the training courses to send their people on, but that’s not the most powerful development tool they have. Training is just providing a foundation…the real development comes from the leader delegating work that drives their people to grow (and grow faster).
Most leaders like delegating those outcomes and tasks that they don’t like to do…that’s easy. The best leaders delegate the outcomes and tasks that they like to do! As others leaders would do, they don’t hold onto these as that would slow the growth of both their people (and in fact, themselves too!).
You could say that you are not really delegating until you delegate things you like to do, and that is showing real ownership for your people’s development.
