Leaders give control to their team. Instinctively, giving up control is uncomfortable and even scary. But we can practice giving up control in everyday life. Watch David explain. What additional ways can you practice giving up control? The biggest impediment to creating an empowered team is our own desire to want to be and feel...
Leadership Nudge® 254 – No “They” Day
April 24, 2019by Sandy Wilmer
Change the word “they” to “we” when referring to anyone within your organization. This change in language helps create a team mindset. Hey, so I just got back from this cross-country bike ride. And I stayed in a whole bunch of different hotels. And when I would check in, I would listen for “they.” And...
Leadership Nudge – Practice Deliberate Action One of the most important things we did on SANTA FE while implementing Intent-Based-Leadership was to inject thinking in everything we did. In particular, between the impulse to do something and act of doing it, we would pause and vocalize what we were doing. If we were going to...
Leadership Nudge® 85 – Know All, Tell Not
January 26, 2016by Sandy Wilmer
Leadership Nudge – KNOW ALL, TELL NOT I am going to give you this two by two matrix that describes different models of leadership. Now most leadership lives up in the KNOW ALL, TELL ALL world. The leader knows all the answers so he or she gives all the orders, and since they are the...
Leadership Nudge® 64 – Practice Listening
September 19, 2015by Sandy Wilmer
Back on the USS SANTA FE, we had to be good listeners. Navy submarines do not have windows, so to know what was around us we had people trained to listen to the sounds in the ocean. Their ability to concentrate on what they heard made the difference between success and failure for us. Hearing...
Leadership Nudge® 61 – Give Up Control
September 19, 2015by Sandy Wilmer
We are wired to take control and create followers. Taking control and creating followers has been very successful in the business world. In the military it has long been the only way to lead. What I experienced when I decided to give control and create leaders was tremendously more powerful. The hardest step was retraining...