New Wine Out of Old Wineskins
I solve most of my challenges and work through hard decisions while I am out running. Therefore, it was no surprise to me that a challenge that I didn’t really think I needed a solution to popped up on a recent run.
As I ran, I kept thinking about conversations I had been having with one of my employees and was frustrated that I couldn’t seem to break through to him the importance of being mindful about his work and not just wandering around when he was trying to figure out what to do next. I was trying to explain to him that the biggest thing he needed to work on was not dwelling on the task he was doing or had just finished. I was trying to get him to be thinking two steps ahead of what he was doing so that he could just flow from one task to another and not wander between tasks.
The challenge is that I am a pretty intense person, full of passion and lots of energy. I believe I communicate well but with this one particular person, the intensity isn’t what he needs because he hasn’t exactly been treated to bosses that care about him as a person. His experiences have been a lot of being yelled at, being let go because he made a mistake and generally bosses that cared more about their goals and achievements than cared about their worker's goals and achievements.
As I kept running realizing that I needed a new approach, the phrase “you can’t…
