Be understanding & lose respect
Yesterday, a direct report looked at me and said, “Are you the lead on this or am I?”
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Everywhere you look, there's advice on being the nice, understanding boss who listens, if you want to hack this leadership thing.
But let's be real: some employees will always try to take advantage of your niceness.
So, how do you strike the balance between being firm but kind?
Grab a cup of hot tea, relax, and read this first;
I’ve recently ascended rather quickly into a new leadership role at my company and I am struggling with communicating to those on my team such that everything is not a collaboration and debate.
There are times when I need people to do what I am asking them to do, simple as that.
Yesterday, a direct report looked at me and said, “Are you the lead on this or am I?” when I was instructing him on how a certain part of a project I’d assigned to him needed to be handled.
Today I will have a conversation with him about how he is the lead on projects I assign him, but that he is under my direction, meaning when I step in and say something should be handled a certain way, it’s not a suggestion, but a directive.
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