Ever counted the number of people you speak to in any single day?
It’s easy to get lost when we have so many people to answer to.
Which means we lose focus.
We can get ‘niceness fatigue’.
And defensiveness leads to grumpiness.
This means that we are working spread thin rather than with depth.
Which keeps us worrying we are not fulfilling our function or leading a team effectively.
Signs you are trying to keep everyone happy.
- Feeling tired at the thought of one more conversation. Finding the right words becomes a struggle.
- Getting people on track following decisions is an exhausting emotionally charged road. You crave traction from others but fear a negative or aggressive response.
- When you feel the walls closing in. You find it hard to keep going because you can’t see straight.
- When you feel staff leave everything up to you via. Or even worse not included in decisions.
- When you are constantly doing other people’s work because the team don’t.