What Is Your Team Afraid to Tell You? | A Bit of Optimism: Feelings at Work | PART 3

There are really small changes that people can make. leaders and also just everyone on teams can make that will make everyone else's lives feel better. It's like the thing that people are sidebaring texting and be like, Oh my God, can you believe that he just did this and that. It's like well no one's telling him. So how is he supposed to fix it? I'm obsessed with the fact that all of information about how I can grow and improve is in the is in the room and in my blind spot. Yeah. And the only way that I can figure it out is by asking for it and by receiving it well. If you have spinach in your teeth

You'd want someone to tell you, right? Sure, it's an awkward three seconds. but helpful for the rest of the day. So why is it that when someone on our team is missing deadlines or dominating meetings, or doing that one thing that drives everyone crazy? Nobody says anything to them.

Instead we side text our colleagues, we vent to our friends Or we carry a quiet resentment. For months. But do we say anything to the person to try and fix the issue? No.

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