Episode 005: The Myth of Bring Me a Solution

More and more these days I am seeing business leaders do something that I am sick of. It's what I call "fly by leadership." How many times have you heard a leader or manager say to an employee, "don't bring me a problem without a solution!"

This is an ostrich approach, it's an avoidance innovation, a failure to train employees, and a lack of total ability to push yourself further as a mentor and leader.

I've been in the trenches of recruiting for over 20 years and I've seen and heard every leadership cliché play out in the workplace.  In this episode of The Rebellious Recruiter with Daava Mills, I'm going to share my thoughts on training.

Daava's Rebellious Recruiting Notes:

• Over the last couple of decades, companies have been working hard to sidestep the entire process of what leadership looks like and avoid training employees altogether.
• Combine that with the resume crisis - candidates know how to make their resumes look like they have stronger skills than they actually have - and the cultural misunderstanding of what micromanagement is, business are left with imbalanced workloads across teams and managers, resulting in dissatisfied customers, increased costs and decreased revenue.
• Today's corporations are are being built with an absence of mentoring and are turning training into a department.
• Leaders must make time to train their employees on the soft skills required for the position and turn decision making into a competency.

As always, you can email me at daava@millsgroupllc.com with your thoughts or questions. I may use your subject matter in upcoming shows.

Episode Links:

The Mills Group

Playful Parenting by Lawrence Cohen, PhD

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni