How can you identify opportunities for developing others?

Leading People
Written By Stacia Aylward

The Challenge

Write down your answer to the following questions: Who among your employees or direct reports is the best communicator? Who is the worst communicator? Who has the best time management skills? The worst? Who has the strongest technical abilities? The weakest? 

Why do this?

An important part of being a manager is giving your employees the resources they need to develop in their career. (By the way, if you noticed that this challenge is similar to another one you've done, you're right. It is! We developed a series dedicated to developing others, and this challenge is part of that series.)

Supporting others' growth will have a significant impact on both morale and performance across the organization.

What’s next?

In the future, try to find opportunities to pair up the strongest and weakest team members of each of these categories on a project. When you do, be explicit about what you're hoping each can learn from the other.

Stacia Aylward

Zelos CEO Stacia C. Aylward is an executive leader and lifelong learner with broad professional experience in envisioning and leading programs, projects and teams; facilitating and teaching adults; conducting research; and developing client relationships using proven methodologies in many government and technical fields, including economics, education, healthcare, housing, non-profit governance, IT and law. Stacia holds a master’s degree in Communication and Information, a bachelor’s degree in English, a Six Sigma black belt certification, and a Coach Approach to Leadership credential.

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