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Are there problems in your organization? How can you fix managerial issues?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Leadership Pipeline is a theoretical model for categorizing leadership responsibilities that employees must fulfill to keep an organization healthy. One of the benefits of using the Pipeline is that it easily identifies organizational problems<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn how easy it can be to pinpoint the root of the problem with the Leadership Pipeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Leadership Pipeline Identifies Your Organization\u2019s Flaws<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You can use the Leadership Pipeline to identify organizational problems<\/strong> and work to resolve them, the authors write. The Pipeline offers a model for ideal management at any level. When a manager doesn\u2019t match the model, it means their work is flawed and someone needs to correct or coach them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Although the Leadership Pipeline offers a single model of ideal management, this doesn\u2019t mean that all ideal managers work in exactly the same way. The Pipeline outlines requirements for managers at each level, but different people may use different management styles<\/em><\/a> to fulfill those requirements. For instance, one line manager might motivate their team by appealing to the grand mission they want to accomplish, while another appeals to their team\u2019s feelings of loyalty toward each other.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The authors note that the Leadership Pipeline is particularly good at identifying hidden<\/em> management flaws. Some flaws are obvious: It\u2019s easy to notice when a manager does poor work or fails to complete all their tasks. However, without the Leadership Pipeline, it\u2019s difficult to notice when a manager is <\/strong>working hard on the wrong tasks<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the authors, this typically happens when a manager doesn\u2019t understand their role and instead does work that\u2019s easier for them to understand: the work from the stage below that they did before being promoted. Not only do such managers fail to fulfill their unique responsibilities, they also prevent their subordinates from getting the experience they need to advance to the next stage. Thus, they disrupt the entire Pipeline, halting the growth of numerous employees and weakening the company\u2019s future leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, imagine that the manager of an IT department likes to jump in and solve tech issues themselves whenever their team faces a complex problem<\/a>. In doing so, they\u2019re teaching their subordinates to pass off challenges to others instead of taking personal responsibility for the team\u2019s mission. As a result, none of the members of this IT team will have what it takes to become managers in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Leadership Pipeline helps you identify situations like this by delineating the exact tasks managers at each level should be doing. A second-level manager<\/a> who\u2019s familiar with the Leadership Pipeline would take a look at the aforementioned hands-on IT manager and immediately realize that they\u2019re doing front-line work rather than management work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Managerial Flaws Can Look Like Strengths<\/strong>

Experts elaborate that it\u2019s especially difficult to notice when managers are doing the wrong work because this kind of counterproductive hands-on leadership can even look admirable<\/em><\/a>. When a manager shoulders a large part of their team\u2019s workload, they appear to be putting in hard labor for the team. Managers want employees to see them as generous and hard-working, which is why so many fall into this trap.

However, by doing their team\u2019s work for them, managers don\u2019t just block their team members from moving up in the company (by depriving them of experience and responsibilities)\u2014they also prevent themselves<\/em> from moving up. Experts note that if a manager does enough of their team\u2019s work, the team will soon depend on them to keep functioning. This makes them a worse<\/em> candidate for future promotions; if they move up, it\u2019ll hurt the team they\u2019re leaving. On the contrary, experts argue that a manager\u2019s job is to make themselves redundant: They should coach a team until it doesn\u2019t need them anymore, then move up to a new level.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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