2019 Book Manufacturers Institute Conference, Managing Change
Ashley’s talk, Managing Change, at the 2019 Book Manufacturers Institute Conference, April 28-30, 2019, Charlotte, NC. 57’52”
Ashley’s talk, Managing Change, at the 2019 Book Manufacturers Institute Conference, April 28-30, 2019, Charlotte, NC. 57’52”
Take a look… if you answered “yes” to more than one of these, you may have (knowingly or not) become too big to care as a leader. (Picture by Abbey Pansy)
Or… does this classify someone that you know? Someone… that you WORK for (or try to) on a daily basis? In one of the lowest points of my work career, I became “too big to care”. I focused more on what I needed to do to fix the overall problems – then on my team that could actually fix the problems.
It’s 2017. No time for lamenting where you are. Let’s move forward and get it done.
So how do we tackle our situation here? We now have managers that have potentially grown so big in their job that they have become comfortable, complacent, callous, careless, confused, or even just cranky … too big to care as a leader. Leaders have been recognized as those with the responsibility to lead others. Here is a few ways to help you (or a leader you know) get back to what’s important.
It’s understandable that not everything will align. You may want to run the company, and an individual may just want to do a good job (and securely KEEP the good job). What doesn’t go together? How do you break the two up and resolve those differences? Sharing stories about yourself makes you a little vulnerable, but it also opens your employees to the REAL you… which will help them better understand and better relate to you. No one’s perfect, right? It’s ok to let them see it, too.
The year is young and the snow is still cold. Focus on your 10% and show you’re not too big to care.