The SURPRISINGLY Easy Way to Develop a High Performance Team Despite Your Busy Schedule as a Humanitarian and International Development Leader

Are you unknowingly blocking your team's ideas and discouraging innovation?

In today’s fast-paced humanitarian and international development sector, you may struggle to balance team development with your crazy schedule. This episode addresses how you can effectively foster an inclusive environment and enhance team performance without adding extra tasks to your busy day.

In this 8 minute episode you will:

• Discover how everyday interactions can double as opportunities for team growth and inclusivity.
• Learn practical coaching techniques that seamlessly integrate into your leadership style, making team development a natural part of your workflow.
• Understand how a coaching approach can empower your team to solve their own problems and contribute more effectively, boosting overall team performance.

Don't miss out on transforming your leadership style and team dynamics—listen to the episode now and start making a greater impact effortlessly!

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FULL TRANSCRIPT:

Stop Blocking Your Team’s Ideas:  How to Lead to Encourage Diversity of Thinking as a Humanitarian and International Development Leader

In today's episode learn how you can ensure you are creating an inclusive environment and a higher performance team without adding to your busy schedule.

Welcome to The Modern Humanitarian and Development Leader podcast, the podcast helping humanitarian and development supervisors make a greater impact by taking control of your time, leading more inclusively and empowering your team all the while avoiding stress, burnout, and overwhelm. I'm your host, leadership coach and former aid worker, Torrey Peace.

Are you ready? Let's get started.

Hello, my aspiring humanitarian and development leader. So today's quote is by Melinda Gates, the humanitarian and she says, "if we want to include everyone, we have to help everyone develop their talents and use their gifts for the good of the community. That's what inclusion means.  Everyone contributes."

So once again, "If we want to include everyone, we have to help everyone develop their talents and use their gifts for the good of the community. That's what inclusion means. Everyone contributes."

So on Monday's episode, we talked about how the leadership style to use to create a more inclusive way of leading and shift power is a coach approach leadership style. So in other words, asking our teams what to do, rather than telling them what to do or giving them advice. In today's episode we're going to discuss how inclusion really means that everyone contributes. Just like Melinda's quote says.

And so once again, Very much in line with a coaching way of leading.

I want to reflect on how much time during your week do you spend developing your team? The more that you prioritize developing your team and helping them grow, the more inclusive you will be as a leader, but also the more you will create a high-performance team. But one thing I hear a lot is "I don't have the time to involve my team or to develop them. It's easier and faster to just tell them what to do."

So I totally got this way of thinking, but also how can you use the way you are leading to develop your team? So a lot of times we look at developing our team as the separate thing that we do. Like that we have to send them to a training or we have to train them ourselves, or we have to have a really long formal conversation with them, like a coaching conversation.

And that is going to take a lot of time. But one thing. I tell my students in my, course "becoming the modern humanitarian and development leader" is that every coaching conversation is a learning conversation. So every time you use coaching skills as a leadership style, And especially when you're asking questions and you are helping them identify where they are stuck and so on. Every conversation like this is a growth and development conversation.

So if you do it correctly, then when you coach someone, you learn something about them and they learn something and they are able to grow and get stronger.

So what if you used your every day interactions with your team, to create a more inclusive environment and also develop them at the same time? So it's not that they're separate things that you do. It's the way that you lead. So rather than leading through managing or telling you lead through coaching or asking. This is automatically going to help strengthen your team. And it's a more time effective way to do so, because it's part of the way you lead. So, if you're using a coaching way of leading, then you are constantly developing your team into a high performance team. And you are at the same time, creating a more inclusive way of leading because you are shifting power to them.

You're asking them to solve their own problems and come up with their own solutions and you're asking them for ideas and so on. So the beautiful thing is when we develop our team's talents by using a coach approach leadership style and not telling them what to do, we are simultaneously creating a more inclusive environment, which is in line with where the humanitarian and development sector wants to go and creating this healthy global development ecosystem, that Humentum mentions. So it's not a separate conversation that we are having. It is the way we are having most of our conversations. So every coach approach conversation throughout our day is helping our team grow. It's not a three times a year thing.

Like we look at coaching many times, it's a daily thing. It's a way of leading.

And a way of leading that empowers those around us to develop their unique talents and also contribute ideas. So when we think there is no time to coach or develop our team, it is because we see it as something additional, another need to do or nice to do, not a way of leading and just the way things are.

The modern humanitarian and development leader understands that developing their team is the way to what you want. It is the path to achieving more impact and creating an inclusive environment and keeping you for from being overloaded and over worked.

So how can you practice some of these things and create a more inclusive environment for your team? What's one thing that you can do this week to start asking your team for more of their ideas and in doing so developing them?

And on Monday's episode, you will discover how your leadership style might be sabotaging your wellbeing. Until next week, keep evolving. Bye for now..

Are you the type of leader that tells others what to do? Or do you let them figure it out for themselves? Understanding your leadership style is the first step to deciding what's working for you and what's not. To find out your leadership style, take my free quiz "what is your leadership style"? You'll immediately find out your default style, how it may be impacting your team, and a few practical ways to become an even better leader.

Just click on the link in the show notes, www.aidforaidworkers.com/quiz. Fill out your quiz and click submit. So what are you waiting for? Go to www.aidforaidworkers.com/quiz and discover your leadership style now. Your team will thank you for it.