Hybrid Leaders Are Made, Not Born
Leaders are made not born, and the great challenge of that is you need to lead as you're learning to lead.
It's a bit like building the plane while you're learning to fly it.
And when that happens, things will go wrong inevitably, somewhere along the way.
You'll hold someone accountable when you shouldn't or not hold them accountable when you should.
You'll micromanage, over-manage someone or under-manage somebody else.
You'll get the tone wrong. And when that happens, it tends to stick with you a little bit and it's a little bit hard to reset your reputation both for yourself and with the team.
Many years ago, as I was learning to lead, I had a team member who went and did something I specifically had asked them not to do.
They took something to the executive which we weren't ready to take, - it was a little bit embarrassing.
So, knowing what I did about leadership, praise in public, criticism in private, I booked a room and had a chat to them in the room - or what I thought was a chat about what had happened.
Now, that went pretty badly against me. What I hadn't counted on was my tone. I was still angry about what had happened.
They didn't like my tone, reported me up to the executive and it was held against me as Cris is someone who doesn't manage his emotions very well or is not able to be very calm and rational.
Of course, I did get over that eventually, but the way that I did recover my reputation was by going and working somewhere else. I had to shift the context to reset.
The great things about ... the great benefits of things like covid last year - and there weren't a lot - but one of the great things about it is a chance to reset coming back to the workplace, being in lockdowns - all those changes are a chance to reset, to become the leader you want to be, to keep the great stuff that you were good at, and to leave behind the other stuff. But also the reset some of your team norms.
This program is about both doing that reset, but also how do you manage hybrid staff - people that you can't see directly. Get in touch or follow me on LinkedIn for more tips.