Early in my career I got a Monday morning meeting invite on a Friday afternoon just after I left the office. The meeting was called “The future of <business unit I was in>“
Entire weekend was a write off. I was so anxious. And yep. They shut down the unit (but I got to keep my job).
As a result this is forefront in my mind as a manager. One thing that works great is whenever I ask questions about something, anything, I also say “this is on my mind because…” and I find that both calms people and gets me more useful information. Context matters so much.
Entire weekend was a write off. I was so anxious. And yep. They shut down the unit (but I got to keep my job).
As a result this is forefront in my mind as a manager. One thing that works great is whenever I ask questions about something, anything, I also say “this is on my mind because…” and I find that both calms people and gets me more useful information. Context matters so much.