Are your Key Performers overworked while the rest of your team members are not nearly as engaged as they could be?
As a leader, learn how to build capacity and create more engagement from your team members ~
If you’re like most managers these days, you have an ever increasing, demanding workload. You’d like to spend more time on the important work, the strategy work, what you were hired to do but it is hard to get to it.
Instead, much of your time is spent handling the daily tactics and challenges that arise. You’re doing too much work, perhaps not delegating enough and your team members are under-utilized. How do you get out of this vicious cycle?
 I’m Mara Vizzutti, a seasoned facilitator and leadership coach residing in Nova Scotia and working primarily in Eastern Canada. I work with leaders who want to get out of this vicious cycle and build capacity more effectively in their people by bridging the management gap.
The management gap
Many leaders manage from a communication perspective that isn’t nearly as effective as it could be: giving too much advice, telling people what to do, solving other’s problems too frequently, doing too much of the work. This approach doesn’t work very well for you or your team members because:
- most people resist being told what to do,
- this approach builds dependency as people stop thinking for themselves,
- it doesn’t leverage the strengths and talents we hired people for in the first place.
We need to be having different conversations with our team members. Conversations that stimulate peoples thinking and also require them to take more ownership for their outcomes. Fundamentally shifting our approach to asking the right questions is key to productivity because:
this leverages people’s thinking so they solve their own problems,
team members have more buy-in to action plans they’ve created,
more buy-in leads to more accountability for results.
By learning a structured model for communication, we can delegate more effectively and create more engaged, responsive, accountable team members while removing a lot of the pressure and work burden off our shoulders.
We will then be managing people in the way they want to be managed.
Here is how you can start producing better results and more engagement from your team members:
- Learn a proven model of communication that builds engagement in team and individual work performance,
- Learn skills that help you recognize development opportunities in others and how to increase trust and motivation in the work environment,
- Learn how to communicate in a way that builds capacity in others while leaving you more time to focus on your high value work.
I work with leaders who want to increase employee engagement, accountability and build capacity more effectively in their people.
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