When ‘growing up’ in my professional life, I worked for a number of organisations and a number of people who taught me what not to do. I didn’t really have to decide whether what was happening was right or wrong, I just had to sit back, watch others decide and gauge their reactions. I certainly reacted, especially in my youth, but was it the right reaction? The other reactions, rants, opinions, etc would give me balance to my own. And the jewels, the pearls of these were the very things not to do.
I have a long list, a very long list of things I just don’t even contemplate doing in business because of this strategy. Here is just one of them. When a person breaks a code of conduct, professional, personal, perceived or otherwise, the last thing that is needed is an official policy, supported by procedure, followed by training, followed by an appellant process, and blah, blah, blah. In fact, if just one of the above is brought in, you lose, the company loses, the staff loses.
Why not invest the time with that person to discuss, to understand, to agree and get on with it. Leave everyone else out of it and don’t penalise them with the bureaucratic blur that would accompany the former outcome.
Is there something you could learn not to do?
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