Developing Decision-Makers

Giving people information is good but teaching them how to think is better. One of my goals in developing leaders is to teach them to make decisions without me. Asking them questions like:What would you have done in that situation?Who have you seen handle a similar situation and how did they do it well?What mistakes did you see in that most recent outcome?What did we do that worked well, and what could we have done better?These types of questions are meant to teach people how to think wisely, and when they learn how to think wisely, they learn how to make wise decisions. That is the ultimate outcome of leadership development. You know you've done your job when the people you lead no longer need you.