The Secrets Leaders Must Keep – A Bookmark Edition of Your Leadership Story Podcast
Your Leadership Story
English - May 16, 2014 08:00 - 13 minutes - 18.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsBusiness business entrepreneur entrepreneurship smallbusiness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In our consulting with The Riverstone Group, we believe that every experience in a leader’s life provides a case study from which he or she can learn leadership lessons. In this episode, David Atchison asks John Kramp to tell about an experience many years ago that taught him important lessons about what leaders can share …
In our consulting with The Riverstone Group, we believe that every experience in a leader’s life provides a case study from which he or she can learn leadership lessons. In this episode, David Atchison asks John Kramp to tell about an experience many years ago that taught him important lessons about what leaders can share with those they lead and, more importantly, what they must not share.
On the surface, it sounds like a silly story — a university competition that pitted fraternities and sororities against each other high-level stage performances that included elaborate sets, professional costumers, singing and dancing. Sometimes, it’s easiest to learn important lessons in a low-stakes context that prepare leaders for the future when more will be one the line.
If you’re leading, you will face situations where you know more about a particular issue than your team knows, yet if you share all you know, you may actually hurt their performance. Here are some of the lessons in this story.
How leaders know what to share and what not to share
Learning how to set aside your personal feeling about an issue so that you can help your team
Balancing your responsibility to always tell the truth while not always telling all the truth you know
How to motivate others to perform at their best when you, as the leader, are struggling with disappointment
Determining when it is appropriate for leaders to keep secrets
After listening to this episode, please leave a comment about your experiences as a leader. When have you kept a secret from those you lead for the good of the team? What did you learn?