go-to questions for building up other leaders on your team
made w/ midjourney
One way to delegate by default and build your bench of leaders is to push those who report to you to do the hard thinking, with your support. Gradually, your people will come to realize that the social pressure and social reward in time with you comes from bringing their best thinking to hard problems, rather than asking you to dispense “genius” answers every time.
Here’s a list of things to say at the end of a meeting or 1:1 check-in that can start you down this path:
What did I say there that you didn't know?
What did I contribute to that we wouldn't have had otherwise?
Anything you took away from that that will make your future work more effective without me?
If you'd come to the same conclusion without me, what would you have needed to do differently/additionally?
[More informally]: any takeaways to stamp from this? Would those save us time in future?
-ben
