A client recently told me of a frustration with one of his teammates. “She just doesn’t get it,” he began to tell me and then he added the clincher – “And, I don’t know how to teach her.” Damn.
Leaders, remember this truth. Very few want you to teach them a lesson. Most simply need you to show them the way. The best teachers do very little instructing, they mostly remind us. This I believe. You?
Back to my client, I challenged him to go back and go deeper on learning the very lesson he wants to teach. Invest more time getting it, modeling it, mastering it. Jesus would not be remembered as a master teacher if his lessons were not perfectly lived by his example. I know, I know, none of us is Jesus, right.
Who better, leader, could you choose to imitate? You choose. Your choices have consequences. Choose wisely.
Want a better team? Become a better leader. Model the way. Show them more than tell them. Look in the mirror more than out the window. Close your integrity gaps as a habit of the heart. Hard on self, not down on self. Love the work. Love the team. Master the craft. Get tired with them, not of them. Be with. And, be patient. Caught more than taught, remember? God, help me learn my lesson and slow down and shut up. Lesson learned? Not hardly. Lesson I continue to learn. Amen.
Live hard. Love harder. Learn your lesson, leader…
BUILT TO LEAD 