Are You Falling into the Parent-Child Managerial Trap?

Aid for Aid Workers Leadership Podcast

What is your relationship with your team?

Do you tell them what to do?

Do you do work for them?

How often do you feel frustrated by another mistake, or something that's gone wrong for the sixth time?

If you answered yes to any of the above, you may be in a parent-child managerial trap.

We may not even be aware of how we can become parents sometimes when managing our teams.

But the result of this type of dynamic can be a team reliant on its leader, and not able to think for themselves, or make decisions.

So what's the alternative?

An adult-adult relationship.

Find out how to recognize the signs you are doing one over the other, and how to shift from parent-child to the more empowering adult-adult style in this episode.

Many of us never learned an adult-adult leadership approach.

I know I didn't - until I went to a professional coaching school.

And now I teach others this adult-adult leadership style, or coach approach to leadership. One that's been adapted to the humanitarian and development context.

Let me share with you how you can use this empowering approach - and by doing so create a more motivated, proactive team.

Doors are open now for my October 10th coaching course - find out more here: https://www.aidforaidworkers.com/coaching-course