Coach a manager who keeps solving instead of leading
Coach a manager away from heroics and toward intent-setting and judgment-building.
Owen O Manager who still acts like the lead IC Owen is respected because he fixes everything. He is also the most overloaded person on the org chart, and his leads are escalating simple issues upward. If the pattern continues, you get a heroic manager and a weak bench at the same time. Honor the strength, name the ceiling Coaching works best when you acknowledge why the rescue behavior developed, then show why it no longer fits the role. Weak coaching Tell them to delegate more without showing the organizational cost. The manager sees delegation as leadership, not abandonment. Managing…
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