by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
Do people associate your appearance with bad tidings? There is another way.<\/strong><\/p>\n Let’s oversimplify and divide the world of bosses into two categories:<\/p>\n 1. those bosses who only visit when something is wrong<\/p><\/blockquote>\n and<\/p>\n 2. those bosses who visit everyday to chat about the weather<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I have worked for both and prefer the second type. It should be no surprise that I behave like the second type. When I supervise people, I visit them everyday to learn what is happening in their world.<\/p>\n These behavior patterns manifest themselves in several ways and extend beyond the boss-not boss relationship. For example, there is the service provider and service consumer relationship. When I am a service consumer, I visit the service providers often to chat about the weather. When I stick my head in their door, they don’t know that I “want something from them.” I may be there to learn how their kids did at soccer over the weekend.<\/p>\n Regardless of the relationship type, I know that with the first type of person, when they stick their head in the door I won’t like it. I come to associate their face with bad things.<\/p>\n Yuck, who wants to be the face of bad things?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Do people associate your appearance with bad tidings? There is another way. Let’s oversimplify and divide the world of bosses into two categories: 1. those bosses who only visit when something is wrong and 2. those bosses who visit everyday to chat about the weather I have worked for both and prefer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,9],"tags":[173,132],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choose","category-management","tag-choose","tag-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}