Leadership is a lot like riding a bike - not just from the perspective of once you've done it once you've got a lifelong skill, but also because like riding a bike, it can give you a tremendous sense of movement, of change, of progress, of urgecy. And urgency is one of our greatest human drivers.
Also, like riding a bike, for a lot of leaders, they've got to keep their hands on the steering the whole time.
They're going to be there controlling, keeping things on track, solving problems, and helping the team over the bumps; otherwise, things go off track.
It takes a lot for a leader to become the sort of leader that can let go of that sort of control and particularly takes really developing a team that can solve things for themselves. They can work as well when you're not there as when you are there.
But it is possible. And when you do, it is a wonderful feeling. You can take your hands off the steering, you can look ahead to the horizon, you can start to think about strategic objectives, get out of the day-to-day, you can contribute at the executive level, you can get out of managing and back into leading.
It's a wonderful feeling.
I'm Cris Popp and I've been talking about the Hybrid Leadership Method, which is the way for you to become the leader you've always wanted to become and develop the team you've always wanted to have.
