Are you making yourself redundant?

In every business, the key to true leadership is about what you can do for others. Is making yourself redundant at top of mind when you engage with your staff, if not ask yourself why not?

When knowledge is being passed you will ensure to have a successful business. When you hold back information it does not serve you well and it does not provide opportunities for your staff to grow and develop.

You hold a position of privilege and can create wonderful moments as a leader by ensuring that you remember the importance of your staff and writing yourself out of a job by empowering others and supporting them in the decisions that they make.

Consider the following.

Things not to do:

• Isolating people or holding separate meetings to discuss the same topic

• Withholding information or techniques or drip-feeding information

• Highlighting errors publicly

• Owning success rather than it being that of your team

Things to focus on:

• Enabling your team to operate in your absence. Setting them up to succeed and not needing to rely on you

• Empowering them to make decisions on their own, take risks protected by your influence

• Ensuring the team is fully briefed on the strategy and your vision (not parts of it, all of it)

Be part of the success story by giving praise to your team alone. Your team succeeded!