How To Instantly Help Your Team Succeed By Getting Clear On Their Roles

Great leaders manage results, not time.

In the early days of my leadership career, I focused on setting boundaries for my team. I managed working hours and workdays. I was a tardiness titan.

“Don’t you dare come into the office at 9:01am.”

This doesn’t work, and it’s what shitty managers focus on.

You have to move out of your “babysitting” role and into a coach, guide, and mentor to be a great leader.

Being a leader is holding your team accountable for results.

But if your team isn’t clear on what’s expected of them, what you hired them to achieve, who’s fault is it?

Here’s how you help your team get clear on their role and produce the results you hired them to achieve:

Role Clarity

It all starts with role clarity.

It isn’t some nauseating task list dumped into a job description. Instead, role clarity is about helping your direct reports understand their role’s five to ten expectations.

Once they know what’s expected of them, they must clearly understand the results you’ll measure them on. Call them KPI or OKRs; what’s most…