Your Boss is Not Your Parent
And your team member is not your child.
And yet, healthy workplaces do function like families – perfectly imperfect. Giving and taking, recognising the shift in family dynamics and caring responsibilities.
Our household is a blended family and prioritising time with our kids, who are all adults now, remains vital to Dave and I. When the girls were younger we’d go camping, loading them into the van or the 4wd, and we’d head down the coast.
Sometimes it was 4 of them, other times 3, other times just one, as shared care weekends and working began to impact how often we could come together.
Time, spent together, getting dirty, swimming in creeks, nights spent telling stories and laughing silly. It all creates the fabric of their lives, infusing the content of our character.
Each of them have found their way.
It’s not always easy for working parents – bio, blended and step. This, counting the cost time and again. Navigating the complex calls with the non-residential parent, sorting through pickup times and change over locations. And yet it is so worth it.
Since 2015 I’ve been asking audience members in conferences and events just what do you stand for? What do you want to achieve in the next 90days?
Their responses have consistently included:
- become clearer on ‘who I am and what is important to me’
- reconnect with my family
- find common ground with my teenager
- make other people the hero
- leverage my time
- focus on family leadership, not just my job
- rest and play
We’re not so different. Trying to get the balance ‘right’.
You know as a parent you’ve done right by them, and they’ve turned out ok when they leave you the kind of love notes like the one Ellie left for me.
Young adults who may not have had the easiest upbringing, or perhaps lost their way for awhile, still have the opportunity to practice great decision-making and thoughtfulness to become the next generation of leaders.
Gratitude plays a large part in that.
Are you demonstrating Gratitude to your colleagues?
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