Some people will like you, some people will not like you, and most people will be somewhere in the middle.
Your responsibility is not to change where people stand.
Your responsibility is to spend more time with people that, for the most part, like you and less time with people that, for the most part, do not like you.
You’ll feel better. And they will feel better too.
Success is never binary. And very rarely you land on a 0 or on a 1.
Most often, you find yourself somewhere in between.
Understand this to appreciate the progress you have made, as well as the path you still have ahead of you.
You need to give wounds proper time to heal.
Of course, you want to get back to work. Of course, you want people to accept your point of view and get back to their tasks. Of course, you are all working on something bigger and the time spent grieving is time not spent pursuing a new opportunity.
But wounds do not heal as fast as you’d want them to. People do not heal as fast as you’d want them to. You do not heal as fast as you’d want to.
Give it time. And in the process, do listen. You will learn something about wounds, people, and yourself.
Getting ready for the next wound.
There are two things, I believe, you really to need to highlight when leading a team.
Number 1 is that the person’s well-being, in whatever format that comes, is infinitely more important than any business goal and organisational achievement.
Number 2 is that goals, especially individual goals, are not a way to get rewarded or fired, but rather a way to challenge – how do we get there – and be challenged – what do you need to get there.
The way you, as a leader, navigate setting goals and delivering on them is 99% of how your team will feel about them.
Mistakes are a blessing.
If you have the patience to acknowledge them, accept them, analyse them, and discuss them, they are the easiest and surest way to become better at what you are trying to do.
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