Leadership Wisdom

You get the behaviors you are willing to tolerate. If you rank your team by performance level, your lowest performer is a public statement of the performance level you are willing to tolerate. That is what your team sees as your performance standard. Ignoring issues puts your team and your leadership credibility at risk. A small molehill-sized issue today that takes five minutes to proactively address can quickly expand into a mountain-sized matter that requires five days or more to resolve. Unaddressed performance matters do not just go away; instead, they eventually rear their heads in uglier ways.

Lee Colan, Author, Five Coaching Habits Of Excellent Leaders