362: Why Your Team Isn’t Stepping Up (And What to Do About It)

Instead of your team stepping up, you’re stuck answering constant questions, fixing mistakes, and wondering why you’re STILL the one holding everything together. If this sounds all-too-familiar, join us for this episode as we unpack the reasons why your team isn’t taking initiative–and what you can do about it. You’ll learn how to lead in a way that fosters genuine accountability, how to stop micromanaging and start empowering, and how to transition into an authentic leadership role. Join us if you’re ready to grow your business without burning out.

Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production.

Show Highlights:

  • The vast gulf between having the right A-players on your team and having them step up to take initiative
  • The #1 problem? A lack of clarity around priorities (Guard against mixed messages!)
  • Our Leadership Bootcamp teaches decision-making parameters.
  • Your goal is to turn your team into strategic-thinking partners.
  • The importance of aligning each team member’s strength with the key result that ties to the sweet spot of your business (This is when the magic happens!)
  • One-to-one meetings create a “thinking space.”
  • The process of building momentum when ONE A-player has the confidence to make recommendations
  • Melissa’s perspective as a team member at Tap the Potential
  • Results you can expect from Leadership Bootcamp

Resources:

Join our upcoming Leadership Bootcamp to build a self-managing team that actually owns their roles. tapthepotential.com/leadership-bootcamp

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Sign up for the free A-Player Development Plan/Mini-Course. Track your A-players’ development and retain your A-players!

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About The Author

Tap the potential of your team and double profit!

Sabrina Starling, Ph.D., PCC, BCC, The Business Psychologist, is the international bestselling author of the How to Hire the Best series and The 4 Week Vacation®.

The third generation in her family impacted by entrepreneurial hustle culture, Dr. Sabrina is transforming the story of success from long hours and grinding it out to work that supports and enhances life.

Hustle culture often means sacrificing our health, well-being, and relationships, all for the sake of success. Dr. Sabrina’s research shows this leads to burnout and pain in our relationships. There is a better way. Work supports life, not the other way around!™

Dr. Sabrina is revolutionizing the workplace with concepts like Work Supports Life™, 4 Week Vacations®, $10,000 an-hour activities, 25-hour workweeks, and unlimited vacation and sick time in highly profitable businesses winning the war for talent. She inspires transformation in a world where work often overshadows life, sharing insights from her ongoing research with over 650 entrepreneurs and their high-performing teams.

Featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur.com, and Thrive Global, Dr. Sabrina is the founder of www.tapthepotential.com and the globally top-ranked Profit by Design Podcast. Listed in The Daily Hustle’s Top 50 Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2022, Dr. Sabrina is on a mission to get 10,000 business leaders taking the Work Supports Life™ Pledge.

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