It's as simple as a conversation...
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Do you find yourself doing projects yourself because you don’t trust that others will do the job correctly? Team members and managers alike fall into this habit more than you think. What tends to follow are things like enormous workloads, anger at teammates, job dissatisfaction, low morale, and employee burn-out.
Common sense would tell us to confront the people on our team to fix the problem. Right? Well, in reality, many people will avoid this confrontation altogether. There all kinds of reasons why this crucial conversation never happens.
Do you need an email intervention?
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Do you spend more time on email than any other activity in your workday? When you are in meetings do you check your phone multiple times – not fully engaged in the discussion? Is email the first thing you check when you get up in the morning and the last thing you check before you go to bed?
You may be ready to blame all the other people in your organization for this phenomenon. However, we need to first look at own practices and evaluate how we are contributing to the email overload problem.
I Don't Need Leadership Training!
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“I’m an executive in our company. I don’t need leadership training!” I would venture to guess that the majority of people who are members of a company’s executive team would think, if not actually say, these words. But if we asked those same executives if someone else on their team needed to improve their leadership skills, we’d get an irrefutable “Yes!” I find it interesting that we can look around the table and point fingers at those who demonstrate poor leadership practices at the same time we fail to recognize our own behaviors are far less than leader-like!
