Stop Being the Person With All the Answers

Advisory Secrets with Deb Halliday · Oct 8, 2026 · 7m · transcript

If you're the person in your firm who always has the answer, it can feel like you're being a good leader.

Someone asks a question.

You know the answer.

You give it to them.

Problem solved.

But there's a problem with that.

What has your team member actually learned?

In this episode of Advisory Secrets, I talk about why developing an advisory team sometimes means resisting the temptation to be the person with all the answers.

Because if every difficult question still comes back to you, you've created exactly the dependency you're trying to move away from.

Instead of immediately giving someone…