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The growth and development of people is
the highest calling of leadership.
Harvey S. Firestone
The higher up you go
in your career, the more you need the help and support of people. You should
graduate from doing to getting things done by others. For this, you should know how to develop
people. The difference between supervising and managing lies in the number of
people, for whom you take the responsibility. That is why there are supervisors
and managers in an organisation.
Today, take a person
who could be your subordinate, your son or daughter, whom you want to develop.
You should have a plan of action to develop them, taking them through the
following stages:
- Look into this problem and give me all
the details and I will decide.
- Think and discuss with me the
alternatives for me to decide.
- Think of alternatives and recommend the
course of action.
- Check with me and keep acting until I
say ‘no’.
- Keep me informed.
- Tell me only when your actions do not
produce results.
7. Take over from me.
Take the ‘people
development portfolio’ seriously! Your people will grow and ofcourse, you will
also grow to the next higher level.
(From my book “365 Exciting Ways to Live”)
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