The Cranky Middle Manager Show #187 Greater Than Yourself with Steve Farber
Today Wayne Turmel talks mentoring, growing employees and helping your team become “Greater Than Yourself” with author Steve Farber. Also we talk about the world’s greatest mentoring streak, and a bad writer gives good advice.
The one and only Steve Farber makes his return visit to the show.
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Show Notes
0:00 Welcome to the 187th episode of the show. Today we talk about the part of the job we all appreciated from our managers and seldom get to do for our folks…. mentoring and helping them become “greater than ourselves”. We dedicate this show to an amazing streak, Socrates to Plato to Aristotle to Alexander the Great and then it all comes to a screeching halt.
3:05 The quote of the week is from Edward Bulwer Lytton, godawful novelist but a smart guy. How are you inspiring your team to learn and excel???
4:00 Welcome Steve Farber back to the show. (Hear his first interview here) His new book “Greater Than Yourself” is a good excuse to have him back. Check out the website to see how fact and fiction blend, but the deal is that coaching is not nearly enough. Can we help people be greater than we are? Why don’t we spend more time on mentoring and coaching? Our job is to help people be better at whatever they do than we are.
8:10 The system is called GTY…. which is not GTD but it’s pretty darned good on its own. The system has three tenets:
- Expand yourself
- Give yourself
- Replicate yourself
10:30 What do we have that others want to surpass? When we tell ourselves that we aren’t worthy, it’s a convenient lie to relieve us of responsibility. This whole process starts with taking stock of your resources. What do you do better than most people…and be honest.
14:40 Your ability to grow and expand your knowledge is critical to helping others. The more resources you have, the greater your competitive advantage. The purpose of expanding your knowledge is to give it away.
17:43 “Replicate yourself”, does not mean creating clones and make everyone do things the way you do. Everyone should have a GTY project and they should have one and so on and so on.
20:07 You can watch Steve’s GTY project in real time on his website, which is very cool. The beneficiary is Tommy Spaulding. Pat Lencioni (hear his Cranky interview here) and Matthew Kelly (his show is here) are part of this process as well.
24:30 How is this different than traditional mentoring? Mentoring has limitations built in since it’s a “program” or “system”. It’s also more than the Golden Rule.
Don’t let the weasels get you down!!