From the course: Developing Your Leadership Philosophy
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Treating people as individuals
From the course: Developing Your Leadership Philosophy
Treating people as individuals
- No one wants to be treated like a faceless cog in the machine. We all want to be known as individuals, we want to feel like our wants and needs are important, especially to our leaders. The members of your team expect the same of you. We all need maxims to remind us to stop treating them as a functional role like my analyst, my project manager, my team member, and think of them as Joe and Susan and Bill. When I was in the army, I had a soldier who was a problem child. He would show up late, he wouldn't do his job, he would look all disheveled, sometimes he would talk back. He caused us a lot of problems. We were out at Tank Gunnery at one point and it was hot, it was a summer day, and I gave my driver five bucks and a list of stuff to go get at the little snack tent down the way. And when my driver came back, he started handing out the sodas to the members of my platoon and he handed the problem child a can of 7UP. And the problem child looked at him and he said, "You know I drink…
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