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Are all workers created equal?
Let’s say you get two new hires that show up to work for you on the same day. Do you look at each as if they are the same and should be treated the same?
If you do you will be making the same mistake most leaders make.
The truth is all workers are not created equal.
Just about every job I’ve work involved having a boss that initially thought I was just another drone in their office. Each time I sighed and thought to myself, “Here we go again. Guess I gotta train another leader”
Sounds weird, doesn’t it? You go to work for someone and you end up training them. The main thing I trained most of my leaders on is the fact some workers work harder than others and need little supervision.
Case in point. I once had a leader who decided he was going to show me how to conduct a sales call. Now at this point in my career, I was one of the top producers. I found it strange a new leader would want to “Show me how it’s done.”
Would you like to know how his sales call went? Well, let’s just say I was embarrassed for my boss. He totally fumbled on the sales call. He lost credibility.
I endured this twice until finally, he got the hint that I was better on sales calls than he was.
Look, if you’re a leader you don’t have to be the best. And especially if you are not good in a certain area such as sales calls…for goodness sake don’t embarrass yourself. Just let your workers do their job.
Not all workers are created equal and neither are all leaders created equal.
If you do you will be making the same mistake most leaders make.
The truth is all workers are not created equal.
Just about every job I’ve work involved having a boss that initially thought I was just another drone in their office. Each time I sighed and thought to myself, “Here we go again. Guess I gotta train another leader”
Sounds weird, doesn’t it? You go to work for someone and you end up training them. The main thing I trained most of my leaders on is the fact some workers work harder than others and need little supervision.
Case in point. I once had a leader who decided he was going to show me how to conduct a sales call. Now at this point in my career, I was one of the top producers. I found it strange a new leader would want to “Show me how it’s done.”
Would you like to know how his sales call went? Well, let’s just say I was embarrassed for my boss. He totally fumbled on the sales call. He lost credibility.
I endured this twice until finally, he got the hint that I was better on sales calls than he was.
Look, if you’re a leader you don’t have to be the best. And especially if you are not good in a certain area such as sales calls…for goodness sake don’t embarrass yourself. Just let your workers do their job.
Not all workers are created equal and neither are all leaders created equal.
