Gap
The skill gap in your team’s development is often something you are innately good at.
If you are naturally proficient at building a strategy, it is easy for your team to rely on you for it.
It is also mentally easier (and rewarding) to do it rather than develop it.
Teaching something in which you have a high natural ability is challenging for two reasons.
First, you will struggle to relate to the learner’s context because you have never been there.
Second, the value proposition of taking the time to develop someone to do it slowly and worse than you (initially) is outweighed by your desire to do it faster and with enjoyment on your own.
When assessing your team’s gaps, find the connection between your own gaps and strengths.
Either adopt a new perspective around actively developing the gap, or partner with someone who can teach it well.
Accepting help in developing a skill in which you have high ability is not a weakness, it is leadership.
Beauty and the Barista,
- Morning Cup