How NOT To Manage Your Team

Last week I stood in awe as I saw a textbook example of how NOT to manage a team.

This leader understood, to his core, that people can’t stand being MANAGED!

What they absolutely LOVE is to follow someone who knows how to LEAD… inspiringly.
Someone who takes their range of skills, gifts and talents…
And multiplies them.

Stand beside me for a moment.

Watch how 200 clients gather and babble and laugh and hug and nod heads together.

See how we’re surrounded by the gentle hills of this Buckinghamshire valley.
340 acres of quintessentially English countryside. Wrapped in a constant chorus of birdsong.

Feel the slightest whisper of a Summer breeze, while you bask in the glorious warmth of this Summer’s eve.

Notice how a team quietly glide in and out, ensuring that each and all are well fed, hydrated and made to feel important. Special.

Smile at how the Managing Director never gets the chance to stand in the spotlight.

Because every member of his team has choreographed the finest detail of a stunning evening of social joy and warm relationships.

He will be wheeled out of his ‘cupboard’ of mixing with gleeful, embracing, chuckling clients and service providers… When the team jolly well says so.
And he’ll speak for as long as they instruct him.

Observe what people are talking about.

it’s not about their money, their wealth, the markets, their monetary legacy.
It’s about how they’re cared for. It’s about being treated with fascination and compassion.

The technical skills they’re served with are a ‘given’. They’re a hygiene factor.

The tales these folk tell are about lives made more meaningful; years filled with greater interest and discovery and wonder…
and advice crafted to give them opportunity to reshape this aching world.

This leadership is not about “What career opportunities can you provide for me?”
Or…“How well will I be remunerated?”

This leadership calls to another question…
“How will you help me to do something powerful, meaningful and fulfilling in my working life? Work that people will be talking about for years and decades to come!”

The truth is… you MANAGE systems… processes… projects.

BUT…
You need to learn how to LEAD PEOPLE.

How to stop boxing them into Job Specs.
How to start discovering and liberating their hidden genius.

How to get out of their way.
To MULTIPLY them!

When you learn How NOT To Manage Your Team…
Then the whole team becomes a magnetic culture!

Learn that… and hundreds of folk will gather to thank you for their multiplied lives.
(Whatever the season.)

At Soul Millionaire we love to set aside (1-2-1, Pro Bono) time to really LISTEN to Leaders. Helping them to think about their complex role.

They tell us that we help them think More Clearly, More Courageously, More Creatively.

You can book your private Listening Time – your 1-hour Discovery Conversation – right here.

No pressure. Just time to catch your breath. And think about your inspiring leadership!