What kind of leader does your team need?

A recent social media post about leadership had me wrinkle my forehead in disagreement.

“Great leaders don’t tell you what to do; they show you how it’s done,” it read.

At some point in my career, I noticed that showing people how to do their work started to become insulting.

Here are a few variations of that social media post that might work better for different stages of a leader’s career development:

👍 Great leaders of rookies don’t just tell you what to do; they model how to do it.

👍 Great leaders of skilled artisans don’t tell you how to work; they just tell you what needs to be done.

👍 Great leaders of great teams don’t tell you what to do; they tell you what results to achieve.

👍 Great leaders of great leaders don’t tell you what results to achieve; they cast a vision to inspire you.