Note to supervisors: if you are expecting your people to be perfect, look in the mirror! Are you perfect? No. Well, nor are they.
And your job is to help them to get closer to high performance (notice I don’t say perfection there, as that’s not terribly measurable – let alone achievable).
Stop thinking that they should just know. Or just be able to do it. Or whatever.
I had to remind myself this a couple of weeks back when I was coaching someone and got frustrated that they just didn’t seem very mature in their outlook. My job as a coach is to help them to raise their awareness about themselves, their assumptions, their limiting beliefs etc.
It’s not to pass judgment.
We are all imperfect.
And we all need help and support.
So get on out there and support your team members in ways that help them to raise their game.
That’s what you are paid for these days. That’s why you have the badge of supervisor, or manager, or team lead, or whatever you call yourself.
They say that we often see in others what we dislike about ourselves.
So what do you see in others that perhaps you need to change about yourself and your own management style?
