Are you showing your employees the way?

Motivational Monday!!

When you find a man who has lost his way, you don't make fun of him and scorn him and leave him there. You show him the way. If you don't do that, you prove that you're sort of lost yourself.- Zora Neale Hurston

As a leader, our job is not to constantly criticize our employees or others below our chain of command, but to work earnestly to bring them up to performance standards. So often, we lose the patience and empathy required to put an employee back on the path to better performance. Instead, we jump to the familiar course of "managing them out" of the organization.

I am not denying that there are times that is the best course for the employee and the organization. However, before you jump to that conclusion take a step back to make sure you did your part as a leader. That is, did you show them the way or did you leave them to figure it out by themselves?