Although it’s been approx. 1.5 years since I left work, walking my children to school is still a luxury even in this cold weather.
The frost has made the pavements slippery this morning and the girls were enjoying sliding around on it. I was still in the moment with them, but then I did what I thought my parents were doing to ruin my fun. I reminded them of the risk to injury and put my health and safety parent hat on.
Ok, they listened, and the timing was right because no one had a big fall, but I realised that the timing was right for me to make that decision.
As a parent, I could have tried the pavement out first and told them no. I would’ve been a controlling tyrant where they would have resented my actions. This is important for new leaders, it doesn’t mean that they always want the control, sometimes it’s the pure ambition of wanting to get things right first time.
As a leader, it reminds us that we have to let our team slip a bit but we cannot let them fall alone. Not only does falling have large repercussions for a project or financial budget, but it damages the confidence of the team and shows a failure to use planning and risk assessment as a leadership tool.
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