Seeking Coastal Utopia

As you know, as a leader, you should be taking the time to train your replacement . One of the easiest ways to train your replacement is to ensure that you are tasking and delegating activities to those that you have selected in your succession planning as a possible replacement. “you want me to do this?” photo by rawpixel on  Unsplash Exercise your ability to effectively delegate and task activities to the lowest level employees or peers where possible. This gives your team a greater opportunity for growth at the lowest possible cost for the organization. Additionally, when delegating activities and tasks to your employees and your peers, these individuals that you want to grow, it enriches their experience, it increases their capability, leading to greater engagement, and advances the organization by level loading the team and expanding the capacity of the organization. It develops relationships . You are building a depth chart to lean on for possible shortages due to g...

Everyone is guilty of it. We are subconsciously unaware that everyone knows what everyone else knows. Confused? What? You do not know what I know about this? Ugh. What do you really know? Academic creep is a plague that affects all of us. It typically happens in academia, the teacher or professor who has taught the same lesson plan over and over, 300 times in the last 10 years, and students are asking some of the same questions that he has already explained 299 times before today. Or your boss who did the same role you are doing today — yet twenty years ago — has the experience she learned when she was in the trenches, cannot figure out how you are unable to see the trainwreck in front of you. How come these people don’t get it? They are new students. New employees. This is the first time they have ever seen this presentation. The first time they heard of this concept, they are babes in the woods. We do it with our children, to our spouses, to our co-workers. I am extra guilty...