How do you see your team? Director, educators and assistant educators (or other labels) that differentiate members of the team or do you see people with the power to lead, choose and decide within your organization? I am working towards the latter and the shift is hard!

When you lead with equity, everyone has a voice, a say, an opinion to develop their workspace. Allow team members to excel with the skill set they have as you work to develop more leadership abilities. For me it has been really hard to step back and allow others to step forward, which by the way they do, if this is a fear of yours it may be unfounded!

I also recently became keenly aware of the difference between delegating responsibilities and authorizing decision making. Delegating was saying, here’s a task to complete, do it like this, it doesn’t have to be that way but for me it was. Authorizing on the other hand is, allowing another to make the decision or do the task, etc. the way they choose.

We all would like to be irreplaceable but the fact of the matter is we are all replaceable. How would you like to spend your time?