Why Your Team is Waiting to be Told What to do

In part two of a three-part miniseries on why it still all comes back to you, Kate explores why teams often wait to be told what to do, and how leaders are inadvertently reinforcing the pattern. She outlines the cost of centralised judgment - leaders becoming the organisation’s bottleneck - and offers three shifts to build ownership while protecting quality.

Episode Highlights:

00:00 Why Teams Wait

00:39 Welcome and Setup

01:17 The Linda Problem

01:39 Waiting Is Learned

02:37 What Waiting Looks Like

03:51 How Leaders Teach Waiting

06:08 The Quality Control Dilemma

06:58 Shift One Boundaries

08:13 Shift Two Coaching

09:19 Shift Three Debrief

10:36 Staying Consistent Under Pressure

11:48 Two Diagnostic Tests

12:42 Three Actions Next Week

14:02 Wrap Up and Next Steps

14:34 Outro and Subscribe

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