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How to Get the Most Out of Your Leadership Moments
Garry Ridge – Learning Moment Newsletter – The Learning Moment
How to Get the Most Out of Your Leadership Moments Criticism is everywhere—pointing out flaws, weaknesses, and failures. On the other end of the spectrum, cheerleading is just as common—offering applause and encouragement without truly challenging anyone to grow. If you consider these two approaches to leadership behaviors as points on a continuum, you’ll see they are at extreme ends. The most meaningful, most powerful role we can play is the sweet spot somewhere in the middle. As leaders we are coaches, with the privilege and responsibility to help our people succeed. If you’ve been following my work over the years, you’re already familiar with the term learning moments – those experiences, successes and failures, that teach us and our tribe valuable lessons. Provided, of course, that we share those learning moments with our fellow tribe members in a safe, mutually supportive workplace environment. I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce you to another concept: Leadership moments – those interactions we have with our tribe members that, assuming we handle them wisely, teach us all valuable lessons in how we can use our role as leaders to grow, develop, and encourage excellence in our team. Team excellence has the best chance to emerge if we assign ourselves the role of being their coach. Not their cheerleader or critic. That’s the sweet spot. In my book, Any Dumbass Can Do It: Learning Moments from an Everyday CEO of a Multi-Billion-Dollar Company, I talk about how coaches create a safe space to help others grow, guiding them to see not just who they are today but who they can become tomorrow. Check out Chapter 11: The Coach’s Best Game is Off the Field. ![]() |
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