
Most of us recognize the need for managers, but if we’re honest, we don’t really like being managed.
This is especially true if being managed is really code for being micro-managed, or criticized, or fixed. I don’t want to be scolded, condescended to or threatened. Yet those behaviors might sound familiar to you because this is still how many organizations approach managing their people.
How about performance reviews? Anybody love those? Well, maybe the high achiever, the boss’s ace who knows he or she will get nothing but praise. But for most of us, the performance review feels like the manager just arrived at the scene of a car wreck that was our fault.
Is this exaggerated? Am I just creating a “straw man”—or is there a nugget of truth about how managers work in your organization? There is little doubt that many companies today struggle to form that healthy relationship between manager and team member. What a tenuous connection this can be.
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