From the course: Developing Adaptability as a Manager
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Practicing empathy to adapt to others
From the course: Developing Adaptability as a Manager
Practicing empathy to adapt to others
- Adaptability isn't just about adjusting to broad, external circumstances like geopolitics or the moves of your competitors. At the micro level, it's about being adaptable enough to treat people as unique and to adjust your style and tone to the person and situation at hand. Here's how to gear your approach to the individuals you manage and collaborate with, rather than insisting that one size fits all. First, at a basic level, an essential thing to understand is whether your employee responds best to gentleness or firmness in your approach to them. Early in my career, I learned this when I had an employee who would become incredibly sad and distressed when I offered her suggestions about how to improve her work. What I came to realize was that she was a perfectionist. And when I offered feedback, she took it as a sign of personal failure and became almost despondent. Of course, that's pretty extreme and something she might want to work on. But nonetheless, as her manager, what I…
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