In this episode of "The professional Success Podcast," the host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter and Talent Development Leader shares great tips to advance and grow professionally and discusses the concepts of multipliers and diminishers.
Episode Highlights
- Multipliers and Diminishers, this terminology and these concepts were made famous by a book written by the author. Liz Wiseman.
- This book has personally changed Sheila in terms of how she works with and influences other people positively.
- There are two types of managers or leaders; first who make you feel like you were born to do your job and second who make you dread going to work in the morning.
- "Mltipliers increase the intelligence and the achievement of their team", states Sheila.
- Talent magnets people excel at bringing people and teams together, and then, maximize that talent.
- Many leaders aren't aware of how management practices that they hold, also never think of empowering them.
- Diminisher on a team member can be very negative. People are unable to enlist their full brainpower to meet whatever challenges are at hand.
- We need to use knowledge of the business and the situation and need to ask insightful and challenging questions instead of selling own ideas and vision.
- Think of ways to become more of a Multiplier and try to gain awareness from her accidental Diminisher tendencies.
- We all need to capitalize all those multiplier tendencies, and find ways to let go of some of those accidental Diminishers.
3 Key Points
- Some specific multipliers are those who first look everywhere for talent, if someone's skilled, they are valuable; second, they ascertain an individual's instinctive skill; third, they engage that skill, wherever it's best suited and fourth, remove obstacles.
- To create a healthy environment, we need to encourage experimentation, support teams to do the best work possible and try not to punish someone for a bad outcome.
- One need to create room for others to contribute and then their words will be more heard and become more influential.
Tweetable Quotes
- "Now, a Diminisher oftentimes can be very smart person, but they're usually focused more on their own intelligence than they are on taking advantage of the potential intelligence or smarts within their own team". – Sheila Boysen - Rotelli
- "So don't build a people team I should say, of people who all have that exact same talent or have your same talents or are very much like you". – Sheila Boysen - Rotelli
- "So, if we go back to the Steven Spielberg example, he knows that every job on his crew is tremendously important and he knows every job backwards and forwards". - Sheila Boysen - Rotelli
- "The best leaders don't provide all the answers; they ask the right questions". - Sheila Boysen - Rotelli
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