A Leader's Example For Counseling

Leader’s Example
Let us say that you as a leader wanted to take your followers to a team building exercise – like bowling. You decide that you would reward the bowlers who consistently out produced their counterparts. However, you decide that you would turn all of the lights in the bowling alley off. Now your followers can still find the lanes and even bowl down the alleys. They can hear the balls hitting pins, but they can’t determine whether they have bowled a strike, a split or something in between. The point here is that this is what you are doing if as a leader you refuse to counsel your followers, or if you do counsel them improperly. These are missed opportunities to bring those subordinates into line with the values and goals
of the organization. As a leader, should there be one game that you turn the lights off – the answer of course is no, never. Therefore, there should never be a time to miss a counseling opportunity. As a true leader, never take counseling lightly. It is a sure fire way to great separation between you and your followers.