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How would you get a team to make a difficult decision?
The health and well-being of every organization hinges on how well its leadership works with the people actually doing the work. A great test of a leader is how they guides the team through a difficult decision.
Should the leader make that decision themselves and prepare the team to accept it? Or should they empower the team to present good options and collaborate on selecting the best one?
My guests on this edition of Quick Hits have extensive experience working with teams and helping organizations make difficult decisions. Doug Crowe of Author Your Brand helps CEOs and other executives become authors of influence without writing a single word. And Kevin Wash is a coach and mentor running a consultancy business specializing in sales for international property development. They provided great insight on the dos and don’ts of decision making in team leadership.
“What the leader needs to do if it’s a tough call is to get buy-in from the team,” says Kevin. “I’ve worked in situations where the president of the company will say, ‘OK, you guys come up with a decision.’ So you come up with a decision, go back to the president, and he says, ‘No I don’t like that, come up with another decision.’ So why didn’t he just say I’ll make the decision for you?”
Doug agrees: “It’s like Henry Ford saying you can have any color car you want, as long as it’s black.”
Do you think teams make decisions or is it individuals getting other individuals to buy into something?
Connect with the panelists:Kevin Wash: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-wash-23b90915/Doug Crowe: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thedougcrowe/
Dr Robyn Odegaard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynodegaard/
Want a summary of the Quick Hits I post every week, plus the links to the LinkedIn pages of each of the panelist to show up in your in-box every week? Just let me know where to send it: https://drrobynodegaard.com/quick-hits-notifications/
#QuickHits are designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to get other people's thoughts on pertinent subjects. If you would like to join a conversation or have a topic you would like to hear discussed, please message me. https://www.DrRobynOdegaard.com
#Leadership #DecisionMaking
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By DrRobynThe health and well-being of every organization hinges on how well its leadership works with the people actually doing the work. A great test of a leader is how they guides the team through a difficult decision.
Should the leader make that decision themselves and prepare the team to accept it? Or should they empower the team to present good options and collaborate on selecting the best one?
My guests on this edition of Quick Hits have extensive experience working with teams and helping organizations make difficult decisions. Doug Crowe of Author Your Brand helps CEOs and other executives become authors of influence without writing a single word. And Kevin Wash is a coach and mentor running a consultancy business specializing in sales for international property development. They provided great insight on the dos and don’ts of decision making in team leadership.
“What the leader needs to do if it’s a tough call is to get buy-in from the team,” says Kevin. “I’ve worked in situations where the president of the company will say, ‘OK, you guys come up with a decision.’ So you come up with a decision, go back to the president, and he says, ‘No I don’t like that, come up with another decision.’ So why didn’t he just say I’ll make the decision for you?”
Doug agrees: “It’s like Henry Ford saying you can have any color car you want, as long as it’s black.”
Do you think teams make decisions or is it individuals getting other individuals to buy into something?
Connect with the panelists:Kevin Wash: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-wash-23b90915/Doug Crowe: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thedougcrowe/
Dr Robyn Odegaard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynodegaard/
Want a summary of the Quick Hits I post every week, plus the links to the LinkedIn pages of each of the panelist to show up in your in-box every week? Just let me know where to send it: https://drrobynodegaard.com/quick-hits-notifications/
#QuickHits are designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to get other people's thoughts on pertinent subjects. If you would like to join a conversation or have a topic you would like to hear discussed, please message me. https://www.DrRobynOdegaard.com
#Leadership #DecisionMaking