Many years ago I decided to focus on helping people solve problems rather than helping solve people's problems. These suggestions are some approaches you should find effective:
- Never allow others to think you always have the best answers. This will only make them dependent on you.
- Ask questions. Help people to think through the entire process of their problem.
- Become a coach, not a king. A coach brings out the best in others, helping them to reach deep down inside and discover their potential. A king only gives commands.
- List their solutions on paper. Integrate your ideas with theirs until they have ownership of them.
- Ask them to decide on the best solution to their problems.
- Develop a game plan.
- Ask them to take ownership and responsibility for the game plan. Let them set up a time frame and an accountability process.
Your goal should be that when the meeting is over, the other person has processed the problem, selected a solution, developed a game plan, and taken ownership of it. His or her relationship with you will not be a dependent one but a deepening one.
SOURCE: Developing the Leader Within You.
Leadership Challenge:
HELP SOMEONE TO SOLVE HIS OR
HER OWN PROBLEM TODAY.
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