In your career, has delegating meeting leadership proven to be a valuable skill-building opportunity for your team members?

Meetings seem to be a hot button topic in many organisations. 

Which means they're being run wrong - especially if they end up being a platform for the most senior person to impart wisdom/will on the team.

Leadership is not about having all the answers, it's about know when to shut up and let others talk - that includes in meetings.

And, as a leader, sometimes the most valuable question you can ask is "do I even need to be there?"

At the risk of stating the obvious, delegation is a powerful growth opportunity, but you need put the right person in a position to be successful. Tactical meetings with clear rhythm and discipline are great starters because the outcomes visible and understandable. Facilitating strategic conversations with many perspectives requires a different meeting muscle. Those have a more people-centric nuance. I like equipping delegates with context and a scouting report of the people participating so they have advance EQ in those higher-level conversations.