"𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺, 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝘃𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀."

"Team, you've got this."

One email. That's all Agnieszka (𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘥) sent before leaving for two weeks.

Family emergency. No warning. No long handover notes. No detailed instructions.

The old Agnieszka would have panicked and stayed up all night writing backup plans.

This time? One sentence and trust.

Here's what happened while she was gone: 

Her team landed a new client. The one she'd been trying to get for six months. Their proposal was different from what she would have done.

It was better.

The real cost of being a perfectionist isn't the late nights.

It's the great ideas you'll never see because your team thinks "different" means "wrong."

It's the future leaders who won't grow because they never got to try and fail.

It's the smart solutions that never happen because "the boss will just redo it anyway."

During our coaching session, Agnieszka said: "It wasn't about quality at all. It was about me. If I wasn't the person who knew everything, who was I?"

She was referrring to her "old" micromanager self.

This is the real work.

Not delegation tricks. It's changing how you see yourself.

Moving from "I need to fix this" to "my team's got this" isn't just about trust.

You're not doing all the work anymore. You're the one planning it. And good planners don't build everything—they create space for others to build something amazing.

What are you still fixing that isn't yours to fix?

#change #coaching #trust