How Leaders Can Transform Teams: Embrace Solutions, Not Opinions

“Provide solutions – not opinions.” - A warning to my team from my favorite personality assessment.

It’s one of my preferred ways for people to communicate with me.

According to the assessment.

But is it true?

Yeah it is.

How does it go over with a team that reports to me?

Not well.

When I started to dive into learning about human behavior one of the hardest things I had to do was to really look at myself, the good and the bad.

If there’s one thing I know about people, it’s that they want their opinions to be heard.

So this communication style was something I’ve had to keep in check.

If this goes unchecked I know a team will be:

Untrusting Frustrated Disengaged And worst of all, keep their thoughts to themselves

It’s easy to shrug your shoulders and say “this is who I am” and do nothing about it 🤷‍♀️

If you want to be a great modern leader, do the hard thing and dive into learning about yourself.

Know yourself, learn how your behaviors help AND hurt you. Practice self-regulation so that your team gets the best of you in all situations.

For me that means giving people a safe space to share opinions. Working extra hard to create that trust because I know its not in my nature.

What personal behaviors do you watch out for?

Dont know? Let me know, Id love to help you figure it out!