More/Better Leader Teachers: The Role of Leaders

If you are not spending 90% of your time teaching, you are not doing your job.?

~Jim Sinegal, founder of Costco

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I have been exploring this notion of Leader as Teacher over the last few articles.

If you're a leader and you recognize that you need to do a better job of teaching the next generation of leaders, this article will describe the orientation and steps you can take to increase the frequency and effectiveness of your teaching.?

Continue reading to explore:

• "First vs Second Mountain Leadership" and how getting from the first to the second mountain would dramatically increase the amount of teaching a leader does
• In the world of behavior change, a clear first step is critical.? If you want to teach more, I have a suggestion for that first step
• An aphorism from my days as?a Strength & Conditioning Coach with a travel youth hockey team that will help any teaching you do be better received
• The Curse of Knowledge, how it gets in the way of teaching, and how to be effective in spite of it

Excerpt:

"I asked him, 'What's the difference between the [people] you really value and the ones you wouldn't employ again?'?

And I loved his answer, it was so precise, he said, '[The ones we really value are the ones] whom in the first moment we meet them, we sense they are in love with the future flourishing of our organization more than they are in love with doing a good job and their own success."

Here is a link to the whole article: https://www.adsuminsights.com/blog/leader-as-teacher-what-individuals-and-organizations-can-do?cid=cff8dd95-dbd0-428f-b661-9fb4905f8e7b

Dennis Adsit, Ph.D. is an executive coach, organization consultant, and designer of?The First 100 Days and Beyond, a consulting service that has helped hundreds of leaders get the best start of their careers and given them tools and templates for continued success long past their First Hundred Days.