Leading by example: my daughter teaches me a lesson.

My 5 year old daughter passed her taekwondo yellow belt at the end of this year.

Jerry, her coach, asked me to train her as she had a kind of choreography to perform before the official fight. 

Obviously, not knowing a lot about taekwondo myself, he had to train me too. 


The benefits of doing so were fantastic 

🔥 My daughter saw me getting trained 
-> “wow, mum can learn even if she is soooo old” (… no comment)

🔥 She saw me “mastering” the steps in 10mn 
-> “it’s not that difficult actually!”

🔥 She knows I know the steps 
-> “I can ask mum if I don’t remember”, 
-> “mum can help if I make a mistake”
-> “It’s more fun to train with mum”
-> “I will do better than mum”

That coach knew what he was doing when he involved me in my daughter’s training. 

She performed really well and made her mum very proud! 

Now, change “mum” by “my boss” and you have it!
That’s leadership. Leading by example. 
Respect and trust. 

By involving the right people, you can change others’ perspectives on things. 

Find who can best help, make sure these people are well trained, openly communicate about their abilities to your teams, and trust their capacity to lead by example. 

When you are not able to identify that special person in your team who you could trust to empower others, then you might need coaching!

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