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Connect with Donna on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube Hi Reader, I was thinking recently about a manager who spent nearly twenty minutes reviewing an email one of his employees had written. The employee had done a perfectly good job, but before the email could go out, he changed a few sentences, questioned some of the wording, and eventually found himself discussing whether a semicolon should have been a period. If you had asked him whether he was a micromanager, Iβm pretty sure he...
Connect with Donna on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube Hey Reader, Have you ever sat in a meeting where everyone clearly knew what the problem was, but somehow the entire conversation managed to happen around it?Like nobody wants to talk about it, so the problem just dragged on.... Maybe someone had been missing deadlines for weeks, and other people were quietly picking up the slack. Maybe there was tension between two team members and it started affecting everyone else. Or maybe a...
Connect with Donna on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube Hey Reader, I once had a conversation with an organization about one of their employees who had recently been promoted into management.. On the surface, it made sense. Everyone liked him. He was good at his job, dependable, thoughtful, and the person people trusted when the work got complicated. So when a leadership role opened up, promoting him felt like the natural thing to do. Until.... He was spending less time doing the work...