Who knows someone who is so focused on their own goals that they totally forget how they’re showing up in the other parts of their life?
For example, the friend who no longer turns up now that they’re in a relationship. Or the colleague who is so caught up in work that they fail to see that the deadline is not actually life-or-death.
It’s annoying right?
Well, newsflash. This also includes you.
Many of us have suffered the frustrations of our work proposals getting stuck in the inbox of our bosses. We’ve likely spent hours crafting a work proposal with an extremely tight deadline, only to find this missed by 4 days because our head of unit has not responded in a week. This can quickly kill our productivity, motivation and innovation without much effort.
So we can certainly recognise the negative experience of being stuck by a bottleneck. But what if the bottleneck for your team is actually you without realising it?
Do you have any stories of ‘bottleneck’ leaders you want to share?
If you’ve been in an medium to large scale organisation you will have likely already come across the next grand plan for revolutionising your workplace via the brand new ‘transformation’ or ‘evolution’ programme.
So why do they fail?
Shifting to remote working has been a real change in the way a lot of us work. For me as a manager, it made me worry about whether I was managing effectively – was I meant to be doing something totally different?