As a leader, it’s your job to steer the ship and keep it on course. That means helping your team to be productive and reach their full potential. However, sometimes we have blinders that can prevent us from seeing what may be in our team’s way. It’s essential to take a step back and identify focus areas that you can work on to help your team thrive. Don’t overlook what may be making things go off the rails. Here are four things that may be holding your team back. 

Giving back is a core value for me, my family, and RaderCo. One of the things I look for when engaging with a company is if they support a non-profit or mission unless they are the mission, such as my clients’ Blood Centers of America and the Oklahoma Blood Institute.

Our focus is waning due to rings, pings, buzzes, and haptics, the feeling that we need always be available, and the lack of our time and technology guardrails. 

Wellbeing is at an all-time low among both C-Suite and non-C-suite employees.

A study from Deloitte shows that the C-Suite significantly underestimates how much employees struggle. More than 8 out of 10 believe their people are thriving when studies show the opposite.

Company leadership may not like knowing you have an assistant, but that would be closed-minded. I’m not advocating for you to have an assistant that reads your email or has access to confidential documents.