Are you clarifying or correcting?

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Out exploring after a beautiful morning with Mawambul at Mt Sugarloaf, learning to see the land differently

Hi {{ first_name | default: "there" }},

I used to think I was holding a high standard. Really, I was just correcting everything before anyone else got the chance to.

A report would land on my desk and I'd rewrite half of it before it even went out. I told myself it was about quality. It wasn't. It was about control.

This week I'm looking at the flip side of last week's rescuing trap: the critical, controlling default that feels like leadership but quietly costs your team their confidence. Everything's below, plus a question worth sitting with.

REFLECTION QUESTION

“Are you correcting the method, or clarifying the outcome?”

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THIS WEEK'S TIP

Before you touch someone's work, ask yourself: is this actually wrong, or just not how I'd have done it?

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QUOTE I'M SITTING WITH

“Stop correcting the method. Start clarifying the outcome.” — from this week's episode