Even if it all feels warm and wonderful, your team needs you to remove roadblocks. If they’re frustrated with stupidity in the organization, they’re frustrated with you. Sure, they appreciate the check-ins about their kid’s soccer victories. And they want you to prepare them for the next promotion. But, if you’re not out there with them doing some basic blocking and tackling, I’d venture to guess, they’re frustrated. Be a backer, and remove these three common roadblocks.
Three Roadblocks Your Team is Longing For You to Remove
Roadblock #1:
You’re clear about what you want, but your colleague in the other department is sending an equally strong message to his team leading them in another direction. Your team wants to achieve your vision, and feels your urgency, but they can’t resolve the conflict without involving you–and the other team feels the same way. The conflict is getting more intense because no one feels empowered to reach a compromise. Both teams worry that any level of “giving in” will tick off their boss.
Roadblock #2
You know what your boss is asking for doesn’t make sense for customers, employees, or shareholders.
Roadblock #3
Your team feels like they’re operating in the dark. They do the best they can to guess what the stakeholders want, but when they present their strategy, it gets shot full of holes and creates frantic rework.
When you remove roadblocks, the team feels like you’re on their side. Work gets done faster and with higher quality and less stress.