Familiar? You are young, ambitious, creative, and extremely energetic. But your manager is stuck in a routine and has accumulated a slew of privileges. <\/p>\n
Turn up an hour late, chat with everyone, rush through a team meeting (or cancel it), etc.<\/p>\n
You constantly see room for improvement and question the status quo. But when you suggest point for improvement, you are patronised. <\/p>\n
Are you going to convince your coasting manager to get up from his comfy chair? In most cases, you\u2019ll be labeled a smartass. So you end up leaving, or being subtly sidelined. <\/p>\n
A few years pass. You\u2019ve got a house, a mortgage, and you are a manager with a slew of privileges. <\/p>\n
Turn up an hour late, chat with everyone in the department, rush through a team meeting (or cancel it), etc.<\/p>\n
The only thing that\u2019s bothering you is this smartass that\u2019s recently been hired. He questions the status quo all the time. <\/p>\n
What do you do?<\/p>\n
Exactly, you take your grey hair and your years of experience into battle. You employ your \u2018discouragement tactic\u2019 flawlessly. You patronisingly wave away the points of improvement raised. <\/p>\n
And as soon as you get the chance, you subtly put this know-it-all out of play.<\/p>\n
Would you rather be in a high-performance work environment? contact me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Familiar? You are young, ambitious, creative, and extremely energetic. But your manager is stuck in a routine and has accumulated a slew of privileges. Turn up an hour late, chat … <\/p>\n