Offering Help: Clarify Your Intentions
- The power dynamics of being a manager and the multiple personalities that make up a boss can make the subordinates doubt the fact that they can get any effective help.
- A boss stepping in is perceived as a sign of failure.
- Employees can become defensive, unreceptive or the provided assistance and demoralized with the involvement of a boss.
- The Manager needs to clarify their intentions and voice out the fact that they are there as an advisor and not an evaluator.
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