Build a sense of agency
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 3:35 am
But when there is no one person who actually manages a given business line, is responsible for its vision and execution and is fully focused on how to implement or improve processes, then either too many people will be involved, or a state of total interregnum will prevail in which nothing will happen, or someone will simply be too burdened with several departments and as a result each of them will suffer, and in the end all the people higher up in the structure will suffer, who will have to go down and drown in the operations of these individual departments to save them.
Before I give away the punch line, I have to tell you about one of my favorite scenes from the series Ted Lasso, which is about a coach taking over a football team, who himself comes from a completely different type of sport. There is a scene in which Mr. Lasso, as a potential good manager , trying to curry favor with the team he takes over, asks him what nigeria rcs data their current problems are. After a mixture of silence and visually represented contempt, someone finally reports that even the showers in this club don't work. The episode moves on and one of the closing scenes is an image of one of the more critical football players getting into the shower, focused on the same problems as always, turning on the water, and what? Hot water.
This is the moment when faith in your future manager returns. I really like this scene, I often use it as an example of how when a young manager takes over a team, it is good to collect such a litany of complaints and achieve at least one quick victory, improve that one thing that everyone has been complaining about for a long time, in order to build a sense of agency in the team and in oneself.
Before I give away the punch line, I have to tell you about one of my favorite scenes from the series Ted Lasso, which is about a coach taking over a football team, who himself comes from a completely different type of sport. There is a scene in which Mr. Lasso, as a potential good manager , trying to curry favor with the team he takes over, asks him what nigeria rcs data their current problems are. After a mixture of silence and visually represented contempt, someone finally reports that even the showers in this club don't work. The episode moves on and one of the closing scenes is an image of one of the more critical football players getting into the shower, focused on the same problems as always, turning on the water, and what? Hot water.
This is the moment when faith in your future manager returns. I really like this scene, I often use it as an example of how when a young manager takes over a team, it is good to collect such a litany of complaints and achieve at least one quick victory, improve that one thing that everyone has been complaining about for a long time, in order to build a sense of agency in the team and in oneself.