When someone on your team comes to you with a problem, resist the urge to solve it immediately. Ask them what they'd do first. Half the time their instinct is right and they just needed permission. The other half, you'll give better advice because you've heard their thinking + context first.

resist the urge to be a hero! just ask “what would you do?”.

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Written by Rohan Mahtani

From Coached Weekly, issue 352.

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End meetings 5 minutes early

If a meeting's scheduled for 30 minutes but everything's covered in 20 — end it. Don't fill the remaining time just because the calendar says so. A lot of people treat scheduled time like it has to be used up, so they start pulling in loosely related topics or rehashing…

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