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- Subject: some after thoughts to our meeting
- hi daren ,
- i enjoyed our lunch together yesterday and believe we made a good beginning .
- you have very high standards for your own performance and are highly
- committed to the best outcome in all situations . you are likely to have high
- expectations for results from our coaching meetings this a good formula for
- success and i will do my best to honor your strengths with a focus on moving
- the action forward . with this in mind , i had some thoughts and additional
- questions for reflection following the meeting that i would like to share .
- you are in a transition from being a high team performer to becoming the
- leader of a high performing team . one of your frustrations as leader is
- that members of your team seem to rely too much on you to solve problems
- that arise in the day to day operations of the team . at first you responded
- to their requests for help by solving it for them , then you shifted to using
- questioning techniques to have them solve the problem with you . you have
- also offered some training to address the learnings needed to be more
- independent problem solvers . you are frustrated when some members of the
- team continue to come to you with questions they should be able to solve and
- when they fail to implement changes that you have trained them to use . you
- are seeking ways for the the team to have the same problem solving ability
- that they come to you for . you have recruited people with this ability and
- you seek to expand it in the team .
- this issue was the focus of our first session and needs to be the focus our
- next meeting . the question is : how to engage the team in solving this
- problem . how do i get the members of this team to own this responsibility
- and begin creating their own solutions ? what resources are needed by each
- person to contribute more to this problem ? how do i involve the team members
- more in the solving of this problem ? what new behaviors do i need to employ
- to increase the involvement of the team ? what do i need to change in myself
- or my relationship to the people in order to engage them more actively in
- the problem ?
- there is one dimension that i am clear about . i know that you have used
- performance appraisals to give feedback . have you put this issue before the
- team as a whole for the team to solve or have you tried to change individual
- team members ?
- i look forward to our meeting on the 17 th . keep growing !
- mike
- teamleadership center
- mobile : 713 - 598 - 6732
- office : 713 - 871 - 8326
- fax : 713 - 871 - 1707
- home : 409 - 321 - 0680
- mam @ teamlead . com
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