If you are a technician (somebody who does a discreet function in an organization) and you accept a promotion to a leadership role, it doesn’t mean you remain a technician with a sprinkling of people stuff. It means you become the people person who also has to do a sprinkling of technician work. That concept is what I see most new leaders miss. The promotion is essentially a whole new role. Leadership development requires the same level of rigor that it took to be a great technician. Book learning, mentoring, self-assessment, experimentation, group learning, and time. It is a whole new thing. Treat it accordingly.
With your teams, don’t get out of the way, do this instead
"Get out of the way!" I often hear some version of this sentiment when talking about building a culture to incentivize high performance teams. "You have to find the right people, equip them, and then get out of the way." People who talk about getting out of the way...