Are you a smart talker?

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Smart talkers are those that can have a conversation about the organization strategy, they have made an awesome research about the topic, they bring the latest hype words and everything sounds amazing, however they cannot execute. 

Smart talkers just keep talking but they are unable to put things into action, the problem is that in order for your organization to succeed you need to actually deliver.
We have to remember that leadership is about results, it doesn’t really matter how you do it or what is your style, you need to deliver. It is not enough to know what to do, you need to translate it to actions.

A common mistake in organizations is that people who tends to talk a lot receives more attention that they deserve. While probably they are not helping in the execution of your strategy, they are just trying to impress the boss. It is not that you must pick those quite thinkers (since that will depend in your organization culture) but if you really want to actually embrace collective intelligence in you organization, you also need to give some leverage to those that don’t talk much but can actually deliver, these people is the one that knows the product, the customers and they can help you to get better ideas of how to improve your product or service.

How can we spot smart talkers?

• They usually say something like: That’s the same idea I had (but it was not executed by him)
• They will talk about the same problems and solutions (but no one has done something about it)
• They will just keep talking but they aren’t actually delivering.
• They will usually use complex statements with hype words to sound smarter (Remember if you understand something you must be able to explain it to a 5 years old)

After all talking about great ideas is not the final end, it is executing what matters.