Influence should leave people more capable after you leave.

The measure of influence is not what happens while you are present, it is what people can do afterward. Anything that produces results while making others less capable is borrowing against the future. Real influence leaves behind skills, judgment, and confidence that outlast the relationship.

Ask what someone you work with can do now that they could not before you arrived. If the honest answer is nothing, shift some of your energy from producing outcomes to explaining how you reached them.