If you were the Rahul Dravid of your team - a strengths based approach to people development.
A couple of years ago, Gallup came out with a major study. And in what's clearly a writing on the wall that most of the organisations and managers can ignore only to their peril, the five new expectations of people from their workplace included a major shift in what they expected of their managers at work. Instead of managers as bosses they expected managers to be coaches. A couple of months ago, I was in a series of training sessions with managers on the topic of managers as developers of their team members. (And this was well before the historic 2-1 series win that India had in the Border-Gavaskar trophy in Australia in January this year.) While I don't remember the specific question that triggered it all, it was essentially around: How do you decide on developing your team members? What will you develop in them? What will you develop them for and what will you develop them towards? What all will you develop in them as under 19 players? What all will you develop them for? Wha...