Why organizations has mid & senior tags in leadership? It’s cruel.

Trust & accountability comes together. You can’t make people 100% accountable if you don’t trust them.

It’s contradictory. A leader is a leader, there is no seniority in leadership. Organizations having seniority in the leadership always brew hierarchical aspect into the picture.

Hierarchy is good in governance, but not in organizations where the motto is Customers First. As soon as you start terming someone a leader, you can’t put a label on this leadership style.

Putting seniority on the leadership, is like saying you are a good leader but not good enough to take few decisions.

Let me put some perspective to it. As a leader, you focus on your team, your customers & a way to connect both of them. It’s like keeping two very important people together in your life. This requires many skills, “accountability” and “seeking help” is one of them.

As a leader you should know when to reach out for help. We all, weather mid or senior, need help to aspire & achieve.

Labeling a leader as mid-level leader, is kind of saying YOU ARE A LEADER, I CAN’T TRUST 100%. The fun part is they get the message and say you can’t trust me then I WON’T BE 100% ACCOUNTABLE FOR MY ACTIONS.

As an organization, what will you achieve from that? As a matter of fact, it brings more troubles rather than brining benefits. There are only two ways towards anyone’s progression :

• An individual already playing the step-up role
• An individual has potential to play the step-up role

In either case, as an organization leader, when you promote someone to play a certain role. You should give the individual free hand to experiment & learn. You should just set the guidelines and extend your help unconditionally.

Leaders should trust & collaborate another leaders not to weight whose decision is correct based on the seniority.

Rating people to mid-seniority level will make not let them take 100% accountabilities. They will always look on someone else before taking decisions. You may not want that kind of leader in your organization.

Actions you can take from this article :

• Review your leadership roles
• Find the use cases to get rid of conflicting roles and present it to Easy way to standardize the roles by promoting or holding the promotions.
• Be the change and share your stories