Do You Want to Be A Genius or A Genius Maker?
When taking on a lead or a coaching role, it can seem easier to “just do the work” versus taking the time to help others learn the work as well. However, with time this only diminishes everyone around you, and will stunt growth within your organization.
How do we avoid this? By becoming a “Multiplier” in the workplace. “Multipliers rapidly advance the capacity of their followers” (Wiseman). In order to become a Multiplier, we can follow the Talent Magnet’s approach. According to Liz Wiseman in “Multipliers”, this approach encourages leaders to:
1. Look for talent everywhere – every team member has intelligence to offer
2. Find people’s native genius – identify team strengths
3. Utilize people are their fullest – utilize individuals’ strengths
4. Remove the blockers – eliminate anyone diminishing team growth
Although this might sound easy on paper, being a Multiplier can be very tough. It takes trust, patience, and faith that the time you are devoting to others will lead to growth (and it will!)
So, do you want to be a Genius or a Genius Maker? Would you prefer to be the only "expert", but risk losing out on organizational growth because you are a "Diminisher"?
Organizational psychologist looking to help teams and individuals to be their best!
5 年Domonique Gratteri---love this concept and your take on it.? Doing things ourselves always seems easier at the time but we often fail to realize that practice "diminishes everyone around you, and will stunt growth within your organization" as you point out---it actually costs us time, energy and potentially profitability over time.? The term "native genius" is so interesting---can you think of a time when someone leveraged yours or you were able to leverage others with a great result??
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5 年Great book!