Building the Team that You Deserve
As a leader, what resonates more with you – sharing the credit for a success or taking the responsibility for a failure? While we’d all love to claim every victory, leadership means making sure your team owns those victories. More importantly, while no one is eager to take the fall for a loss, leadership is about not passing the burden of blame onto your team.
This can be one of the most challenging ideas for new leaders to accept. As I write in my new book, It’s On You: Both aspects of this failures-and-victories concept force us to really examine our egos so that we can give our teams the kudos for the win. Then we must give ourselves the focus to unpack the failures and shepherd them into the next wins, which will once again go to the team.
Every element of your role as a leader revolves around how you show up for your team every day. Which begs the question: do you have the team you deserve, the team you desire to show up for every day? Never forget that you have the opportunity to shape the team – and the success – that you deserve:
You get to decide what you want your culture to look like, feel like and work like
You get to decide who joins your company
You can create the hiring protocol to find those team members
You have the opportunity to build teams that are stoked and satisfied
You have the opportunity to empower your team members to do their jobs brilliantly and operate with higher levels of performance and personal satisfaction.
It really is on you – when you connect the dots between who you are, how you’re showing up for your team, and what is happening with your team every day, it opens the door to being all you can be as a leader. From there, you’re well-positioned to create a happy and fulfilled team and to be a leader who takes ownership for the team’s growth. You’ll be proud to share the credit for your team’s wins, and you’ll earn more respect from your team when you take responsibility for the losses.
I write about this extensively in the chapter of my book called “We Get the Teams We Deserve.” I hope you’ll consider reading the book (it just launched yesterday!) to learn more about building the team that you deserve.
