A PR Hoax Created the Year’s Hottest Rock Band. Imagine What It Can Do in Politics
Maybe the best advice is at the end of the article – assume you are being manipulated.
Maybe the best advice is at the end of the article – assume you are being manipulated.
This relationship might be the biggest indicator of whether your best people stay, yet you give the person in charge of it almost no training on how to manage it effectively.
Please, make it make sense.
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When you get the title, people will bring you things and hand off responsibility to things that you didn’t know existed. Even though you were sitting right there, in the team that you now lead, you don’t know how many things the previous person in that chair never bothered to tell you about, or the relationships across other teams that made their life easier that you need to build. Many of those things didn’t just happen; effort went into knowing what to do and who to talk to.
It’s a difficult thing, in the busy work world we all live in, to make sure your people are looked after and appreciated. It’s very easy to take them for granted because you trust them to do their work. I’m not saying you should micromanage them, but showing an interest in them and their work would help them feel like part of the team. Letting other things get in the way creates an issue. One that may lead your best performers to leave for a place where they feel more appreciated.