You vetted these employees and chose them over many other applicants. You may even have gone out and recruited some of your key crew members, so why won’t you let them do the job you hired them to do? No matter how great of a worker you are you cannot be everywhere all the time.

Employees have a role to perform and an obligation to their; employer, the brand they work for, their bosses and their co-workers as well as to those clients and customers they signed on to serve. Your crew represents you and the company more than even the products and services being offered. It is important that employees live up to certain standards. But that does not mean you as boss are supposed to hold their hand all day long.

If you do not have trust in those you’ve employed then you  need to address the reasons why you do not have confidence in them. A boss’s unhappiness with an employee’s performance does not automatically mean that the individual should be fired and replaced. More training and mentoring may be the best move.

Employees must produce or the rest of the crew that is working hard, every day, all day, will feel underappreciated. Yes your job as boss is to check up on the job performances of others under your command. These employees should also be getting all the support, the proper tools, the education and adequate time they need to do their jobs efficiently too. That is not the same thing as you, the boss, making all of the key decisions for everyone.

You should not have to stand over everyone’s shoulder, for their jobs to get done correctly and on schedule. Your job is to lead the team! Direct and set realistic achievable goals. Keep everyone focused and working together towards the same destination…success! Everyone wins together! Someone has to oversee to coordinate everything so it all keeps going forward. But each team member has to do their part too.

You can only teach and cheer your team members on so much; eventually they each will have to step up to the plate and swing the bat all on their own.

Employment is a two way street; management, bosses and owners of the company give and get some and so does each employee give and get. There must be honesty and trust between upper management and the crew members; each must have each other’s backs. Still each also has their own agendas. There will be compromises made on both sides of the fence, for things to run smoothly and profitably.

Yes there will be arguments, setbacks, challenges and mistakes made but it is the relationships and bond you have grown with your team members that will ultimately get you all through the hardest times.

When trying to be a good leader, remember these wise word from USA General George S. Patton, “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with the results.”

Micromanaging is simply not a wise trait of a good boss!  

People become successful in many different ways using many different strategies, methods and under all kinds of circumstances and particular conditions.

Everyone has their own set of challenges to overcome, strengths and assets we can call on for help. Thus there is no one road, one recipe, one path to follow or a single play by play book that will guarantee a person will end up great, achieve great things, be admired by one’s contemporaries or become a great leader or teacher of one’s era.

The most capable people are the most adaptable people!

The most adaptable people generally are those who have seen a lot and have a lot of experience.

When we have been through similar circumstances before, we are less likely to panic the second or third times around. We can get straight to working on the problem and developing a solution because we don’t have to think about what needs to be done. We already know what steps are necessary and we just start doing them automatically.

Therefore, practicing for business dilemmas will prepare us so we are not taken by complete surprise when challenging company problems arise.

If you are confident then others will look to you for advice and direction.

Of course, there is no substitute for actual, hands-on real experience! So, the best teaching and best prep work for greatness and leadership success is setting up environments where the students or protégés are exposed to as much realistic diversity as possible. The guru style teacher, boss or instructor should allow the students to handle as much of the situation on their own with little interference so the students can get a feel for having to run things by themselves.

Greatness is usually achieved when difficulty is overcome. To prepare for success we must anticipate that there will be problems and challenges that we must accept and then try to defeat.

A great leader does not shirk from hardships, roadblocks or challenges.

Know that many biz difficulties are of the type that we cannot foresee coming our way. Yes, we will have obstacles thrust in our path that we cannot practice fixing so we must become adaptable and quick thinking. If we wish to lead others in a business arena we have to be worthy of that role and that means taking seriously the responsibility that come with being a boss, coach, trainer and mentor.

Things will always go wrong. How calmly and quickly we react, how efficiently we start coping, how we adjust then counter; are the telling signs of how capable we really are to lead.

But just leading is not nearly enough. Leaders must groom more future leaders!

Thus, if we wish to prepare our crew, staff, teams and students for greatness we must tutor them so they can think fast and act on their own too!

A great leader’s job is to enable those he or she is responsible for to have the abilities, courage and conviction to act in the face of despair!

Empower your charges to act and think on the fly! Then back them up and support their actions and decisions all the way; as if they were your own decisions and acts!