Being Strategic WITHOUT Knowing It All - How to Lead the Experts on Your Team

Episode notes

One of the most common things I hear from leaders is this: "I'm struggling to lead someone on my team because they know so much more about this subject than I do." I hear it from new managers. I hear it from senior executives. And every time, I have to tell them the same thing - that's not a leadership problem. That's a leadership fallacy. The higher you go, the more you will be leading people who know more than you about their specific domain. That is not a weakness. That is the job. And once you understand what your role actually is in that dynamic, everything changes. In this episode, I first take you inside a real coaching session with a leader who was asked to moderate a panel of subject matter experts - and was terrified she wasn't expert enough to pull it off. Then I'm going to show you how the exact same principle applies to leading technical people on your own team. In this episode you'll discover: The Expert Fallacy -- Why believing you need to know more than your team is not humility, it's actually getting in the way of your leadership and theirs.