Develop Your Successor.
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')
N C Sridharan
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