Stop yourself being sucked in
Self Improvement
Team needs your help? Resist the urge to get your hands dirty.
When your team need help, resist the urge to solve the problem yourself. Instead, focus on coaching them through the challenge. Ask them good questions to help them find the right answers. Give them suggestions of new approaches or ideas to try. Point them in the right direction, without doing the work for them.
Above all, use the tools you have as a manager to help where you can. Those tools might not lead to instant results - negotiating for more budget typically takes more than a day! - but they’ll lead to more lasting success for your team.
When to take this action
This action is from 'Do the right work, not the easy work' and should be used when your team ask you for help, when your team is under pressure
Need something else?
In your personal development time
Do your job, not your team's
Are you doing the easy work, instead of the right work?
In your personal development time
Keep yourself on the straight and narrow
Bad habit of doing the wrong work? Worried you might slip?
In your one-to-ones
Help me, help you
Your team will surely know if you have the bad habit of doing their job for them. Ask them to help you stop, and tell them how.
With your boss
Create accountability
Ask your boss to hold you accountable. What behaviours or bad habits should they be calling you out on?