my worker retains difficult my experience
A reader writes:
I’m a supervisor at a small promoting start-up that has a really open and clear tradition. I actively encourage my staff to problem and disagree with me, however I’m having points with one among them doing so in a means that I understand as disrespectful. He regularly disagrees with me, which is okay, however he does so in a means that I believe challenges my authority.
For instance, if I clarify a normal process that we’ve agreed upon and performed previously that he doesn’t bear in mind, he’ll bluntly state, “No, we’ve by no means performed it that means” in entrance of the remainder of the staff. This typically results in us going backwards and forwards about whether or not or not a truth is a truth, even when I’ve documentation that proves I’m right, as a result of he can’t settle for the likelihood that he is perhaps flawed.
Up to now, I’ve principally been making an attempt to disregard him when he does this: to briefly clarify the information and reference the documentation and transfer on, fairly than to sink to his stage and have it escalate to me reprimanding him. I’m unsure at what level this requires some type of intervention, although. Does it make me look weaker to ask him to disagree with me extra respectfully in entrance of the remainder of the staff? And the way do I ask him to chop it out with out additionally discouraging the remainder of the staff from being open with me?
I reply this query — and three others — over at Inc. immediately, the place I’m revisiting letters which were buried within the archives right here from years in the past (and typically updating/increasing my solutions to them). You can read it here.
Different questions I’m answering there immediately embrace:
- Worker retaining utilizing astrology to investigate coworkers
- Properly-meaning individuals hold providing me condolences … and it’s rather a lot
- Methods to encourage somebody you’re rejecting