{"id":7056752,"date":"2026-09-04T07:33:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/are-you-an-initiator-or-a-facilitator\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T07:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:33:22","slug":"are-you-an-initiator-or-a-facilitator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7056752","title":{"rendered":"Are You an Initiator or a Facilitator?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\u201cWhat is your major responsibility?\u201d I asked a new manager.<\/p>\n

\u201cRepresenting my team to upper management,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you make suggestions about what you want your team to accomplish or how you should adapt to changes?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo. I listen to my people and try to become their voice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Facilitating managers listen, gather input, and represents their team\u2019s perspective upward. Facilitators accept 80-90% of their team\u2019s ideas, receive more phone calls than they make, and initiate less than 10% change.\u00a0 Facilitation is a valuable skill, but their teams provide the leadership while the manager merely transmits it.<\/p>\n

By contract initiators take team input but contribute 70-80% of ideas that shape direction, send 2-3 times more communications than they receive, and make 80-90% of decisions available to the team especially when an issue contradicts the team\u2019s comfort zone.<\/p>\n

Leaders listen, but they do not outsource leadership to the team. They shape direction, set standards, and move people toward outcomes that matter because leadership is an initiating role, not a reactive one<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter captured the distinction well, \u201cA great leader takes people where they don\u2019t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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