Your team is more skilled than you

Your have been selected as a great leader – in most everything else you should have a team of individuals more highly skilled than yourself.

Frequency – every personal interaction!

Key participants – direct reports.

Leadership rating: Leadership7

Objective

Whatever team you are responsible for – at whatever level, in whatever business, in whatever function – it is absolutely vital that you do not confuse leadership skills with functional skills. Leadership is an art demanding intensive understanding, development and practice across a wide range of interpersonal activities. What it is not is a replacement for the very considerable and detailed functional skills normally required in any specific part ...

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