Managers Need to Be Instructive First

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.

Direction going in there. Carl, say this, don't say that. These are all of your non-negotiables and these are all your stuff that are off-limits. I would lean more towards this, because you're going to say that. Convert it into these words.

I needed direction. I didn't get that direction. I got support in the beginning. And that's where a lot of managers will tend to go first. They'll say, they'll go to their team and what you'll do is you'll compliment them on the things that they're doing really well. You might give them a little bit of coaching on some things that you thought they could do better.

That's support. What we need to establish with our team is, what does right look like? They're not sure. So here is where we need to be instructive, not descriptive.

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Directive and Supportive

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.

It's a little counterintuitive because you say, all right, we want to be better managers and we want to get more done through other people.

And the first thing we're going to do according to this is become a dictator, right? And so familiar, get used to the initials. I'll use them a lot in this sequence. It's D-S, D-S, D-S.

In other words, when you are working with your team, you want to be directive in the beginning and then supportive. And when you go through that cycle, you're going to be directive again and then supportive again and then directive again and then supportive again.

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