Yet truly great leaders make sure their replacement is even better. Share your lessons learned, even those embarrassing ones, so that they can stand on your shoulders professionally. Make sure they go home each night a lot smarter, more proficient, and, therefore, more confident than when they came to work that morning. To feel good about themselves, the supervisors operate with this mistaken logic that If my people know what I know, then they will not respect me for my superior knowledge and skill. Not only is this thinking flawed, but it also is totally counterproductive.
Credibility is one of the key essentials of outstanding leadership.
To emphasize the critical relationship between training and motivation, let me stress two key considerations. These positive consequences stimulate additional performance, which enhances confidence and, hence, motivation. Second, you cannot motivate an untrained person. Its cruise speed is 250 miles per hour. I will drive you to the airport and give you the aircraft keys.