240: How to Stop Leading Solo

2024-10-01

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Do you feel like you can’t take a break from work? Like if you left the whole place would stop altogether? Do you have high turnover in your volunteers or employees? Do you have a hard time meeting metrics or feeling successful? Or do only one or two people pull their weight? If this is you then you could be “leading solo”. “Leading solo” is when a leader has a team but doesn’t trust them to carry out their jobs, so they end up doing everything themselves or they micromanage people. You often feel like you are the only one who “gets it” or even mak...

Do you feel like you can’t take a break from work? Like if you left the whole place would stop altogether?

Do you have high turnover in your volunteers or employees? Do you have a hard time meeting metrics or feeling successful? Or do only one or two people pull their weight?

If this is you then you could be “leading solo”.

“Leading solo” is when a leader has a team but doesn’t trust them to carry out their jobs, so they end up doing everything themselves or they micromanage people. You often feel like you are the only one who “gets it” or even makes any progress to your goals.

In todays episode we talk about symptoms of leading solo and how probelms with your mission might be the reason you are not getting your team to engage with you in meeting your goals.

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