Each person who works in a company has an expectation of their manager whether they consciously think about it or not. Most of the time the expectations from either side aren’t even discussed. The manager most likely leads each person on their team in the same way without thinking about it. The employee doesn’t talk
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Mary had been at the company for over 20 years. She progressed through different areas of the company and into holding more senior-level responsibilities over her career there. She was a super-connector and everyone respected her. Tom, who was Mary’s manager, thought she would be a great person to mentor Josh who was just getting started in
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One of the main challenges for multiple generations in one workplace is the way that they want to give and receive communication. Each generation wants it their way and can sometimes struggle to bend towards the other generation’s method. Here is an example: Bob is a Gen X person who is leading a huge project
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Communication seems like it is easy to do when you are at work. You are leading a meeting to talk about projects and then everyone goes on their way. You don’t check to see that everyone is aligned and on the same page with what was discussed. There is just an assumption that everyone understood
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It isn’t easy to admit when you make a mistake or fail at something. For some reason we don’t want to be told we are wrong, so we don’t talk about it. Why is that? People have been making mistakes for hundreds of years, but for some reason it seems easier not to admit it. We
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Every year I choose a word as my theme for the year. This year my word is vulnerability. I thought I was good at being vulnerable when I was working in corporate, but now I realize that I wasn’t taking it to the level that I could have. Some of you know that I am writing
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The definition of vulnerability is the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally. That pretty well sums up where we are globally right now. The fear of the unknown impacts with Coronavirus is changing the world right now. What we have seen or heard from
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I used to think that you couldn’t be vulnerable without being seen as weak. I thought that letting my guard down would allow others to judge and criticize me which would cause my credibility to be diminished. It would mean that I would have to let people know that I didn’t have all the answers
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I recently participated in an online class that was focused on people getting more visibility in their lives. What was amazing to me was how many women joined this group very quickly. I wasn’t the only one seeking out options to be visible in a more meaningful way. Why is being visible such a challenge
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I have clients who ask me all the time, “Why don’t people just do what they are supposed to do?” It is a simple question that, unfortunately, doesn’t have a simple answer. Not everyone thinks the same way you do about getting work done and there could be other issues that need to be uncovered.
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Are expectations causing confusion when you want to create a culture focused on accountability? Think about the expectations that you may have of one of your team members. You may be making assumptions about the things that you are asking the person to do for you. They are making their own assumptions from the conversation
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Holding other people accountable can be a challenge for leaders. The leader makes an assumption that their direct reports are just like them. No one has to hold me accountable, so why do I have to hold other people accountable? Why don’t they just do the work that they have to do? Does this sound
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Imagine that you and I are at a networking event and someone in the group that we are talking to says, “My company is creating a culture of accountability.” It tends to bring up a negative connotation for people when they hear that phrase. Managers don’t want to be micro-managers and employees don’t want to
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Change is happening for everyone at such a rapid pace now. You may be focused on one thing and then get pulled into some other urgent request. It may feel like you are firefighting every day putting out the biggest fires first before you even can get to the smaller ones. That takes a lot of energy
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I have posted articles this month on helping leaders understand what they have to do to help their team go through change. Today’s focus will be on helping the leader as they navigate the change for themselves. I talked about the stress of change on people going through a workforce reduction or reorganization, but for
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