What do you think about the leader's pie, whether it is flickering or encouraging, empty promises or sincere promises?
01 Preface
In a few years, I will be forty. As a post-80s generation, I have taken half of my life journey and half of my career journey. Before the age of 40, I want to share with you the personal experience of myself or my relatives and friends who have worked for more than ten years, not only to leave a memory for my life, but also to let more people think about it after seeing it. If it helps your life and saves you from detours, the things I wrote will be of value.
02 How do you think about the leader's pie? Is it flickering or encouraging? Is it a blank check or a sincere promise?
The workplace is a complex space. We live in this space and have to accept the complex worldliness. Over the past ten years, I have been in contact with more than a dozen leaders, large and small, on and off, and my friends have also experienced various bosses. Therefore, I have also encountered various instances of leaders "painting cakes" for you. Now I will share with you the personal experience of myself and my friends. Let's analyze it together, and face various situations. Leaders paint us pictures. In the case of bread, what should we do?
What do you think about the leader's pie, whether it is flickering or encouraging, empty promises or sincere promises?
In the modern workplace, "painting cakes" may be an essential skill for an excellent manager. By painting cakes, you can make your subordinates full of energy and fighting spirit; The goal is to sit in the same boat as you and to help you. ! But the skill of drawing cakes is not that simple, and not everyone can easily master it. If you randomly draw cakes, not only will you not be able to make your subordinates work hard, but as you abuse the skills of cake drawing for a long time, it will also cause All kinds of disgust from the subordinate comrades, people not only do not believe you more and more, but also doubt your character more and more.
Therefore, for leaders, you must be cautious about drawing cakes for subordinates. You must know that although drawing cakes can be fooled for a while, if you end up with an empty check that cannot be cashed, you will eventually lose your character!
Let's talk about a little story of a workplace painting cake:
What do you think about the leader's pie, whether it is flickering or encouraging, empty promises or sincere promises?
Xiao A has lived in the workplace for more than ten years, from the grass-roots scene to the office work step by step. However, a recent incident made him completely deny his workplace experience, and he felt that he was really being "played" by the leaders...
His leader was transferred to his department as the head of his department two years ago. He is usually amiable, kind and humble to Xiao A. He has never criticized him fiercely. Recognized and praised, and made a reasonable plan for his "future", gave him a pie easily and said, "If he is not promoted, it must be the reason for the upper leadership, and it has nothing to do with me!" However, when the post adjustment plan was announced at the end of this year, his three views were completely shattered. All colleagues in his department were promoted, but he did not change, and he learned that this post adjustment plan is what he usually trusts and respects the most. controlled and executed by the leadership of the He himself was depressed, puzzled, and confused. What was the reason for not being promoted by the leader, what was the reason for being overtaken by other colleagues, and why did he offend the leader or did not do enough, and was ignored by the leader? ...From knowing the result to the last month, he fell into a deep self-entanglement, struggling to find the answer that he would never know the truth, and finally almost collapsed...
What do you think about the leader's pie, whether it is flickering or encouraging, empty promises or sincere promises?
03Concluding remarks
Let's talk about the above story, this friend doesn't need to be obsessed with the leader's "painting" god operation, because this is nothing we can do, since the leader has denied you, you can first check what you do If it is not enough, which aspects may not be recognized by leaders, and which aspects may not be as good as your colleagues? Write down what you think of, and tell yourself how to deal with these problems in the future and formulate a correction plan. Correcting yourself is an excellent skill that we must have in life. But this is not the most important, the next step is the most important - seriously re-examine your leader, whether his "painting cake" can still be trusted.