Handholding

No, this is not in time for Valentine’s. In the course of trying to figure out the difference and effectively managing and leading, I decided to just write about it, in case the answer comes my way.

What do you do with problem children at work? I call my staff, my kids, because even if some are older than I am, I am accountable for the things that they do, the consequences, and eventually, trying to teach them to be more proactive and get along well.

I don’t have much experience and practice being a manager/leader yet. I’ve always thought it takes a bit of maturity and experience to be able to rise to that role. I don’t know about my being mature enough, but I’ve been given the opportunity to handle people and now I have a couple of staff issues I’d like to work on. So, what do you do with problem children? (hmm. Is this practice for future real-life child-rearing? Anyways.) What’s more challenging here pa is that we’re a small team and smaller teams are more prone to infighting. A smaller group dynamic is a bit more complex than say, larger groups who have a natural tendency to split up in smaller groups –which then develop their own peculiar behavior in relevance to an over-all large group theme. Groupthink. When thoughts exhibited by group members are geared towards minimizing conflict and reaching consensus, without critically testing, analyzing and thinking things through. In other words, what one says, goes. Eh buti sana kung tama. This results in hasty and irrational decisions, lack of accountability. And for me, stress.

Managerial handholding. Hmm. No answer yet, but getting clear, making progress. Hope this works.

Gotta think about this some more. Hopefully, this week, we get to resolve more issues. Sometimes, it’s easier dealing with guys because I get more straightforward answers (then again, there’s the ego thing, so wala rin.) Not to betray my gender, but sometimes lang talaga, women have so many issues, so much drama. Oklers, no more over thinking this one and I’ll just let it unfold.