Craig Groeschel

You've got a good player, but they're not functioning well under the boss.

You can actually coach the boss on how to lead that type of person.

And sometimes this can make all the difference in the world.

When we are new in leadership, we often don't know how to lead different personality types or people with different gift mixes.

For example, I had a leader that was very organized, very functional, and he was working with a creative leader that had totally different work rhythms.

And so the organized leader told the creative guy, you need to be here from eight to five.

And to be honest, the creative guy was barely awake by noon.

He would work all weird hours of the night.

And

He produced great work, but he did it at really, really odd hours.

And so I suggested to the boss, why don't you just try for a month?

Give him the freedom of workflow.

It doesn't matter when he does it, just does he get it done?

And what happened is the creative guy totally and completely crushed it.

And so the outcome became better, and it also helped the leader learn how to lead different people differently.

Super, super important.

So what do we have?

Well, we may have a right person in the wrong seat.

We may have the right person with the wrong pairing.

We may have the right person with the wrong boss.