Unexpected negative episodes can put any leader in a sour mood. No one is immune to having their attitude altered by events that unfold in an unpleasant way. The only question is how long leaders let a gloomy moment endure.
Making Fast Transitions is helping me with this. I once joined a company with a leader a few years younger than me had a red, yellow, green sign on the door to her office. It was an indicator of her mood at that time. She thought she was being helpful. It wasn’t. In a 1:1, I politely told her it was her job as a leader to always been green for her team, no matter what was happening personally. She vehemently disagreed. Six months later, I was leading that team. My first question to the team was, how do we want to move forward together as a team? The team’s consensus was, No Drama. We bought an Easy Button from Staples and anyone could press it when someone violated this rule.
Don’t Pay a Bad Mood Forward
Making Fast Transitions is helping me with this. I once joined a company with a leader a few years younger than me had a red, yellow, green sign on the door to her office. It was an indicator of her mood at that time. She thought she was being helpful. It wasn’t. In a 1:1, I politely told her it was her job as a leader to always been green for her team, no matter what was happening personally. She vehemently disagreed. Six months later, I was leading that team. My first question to the team was, how do we want to move forward together as a team? The team’s consensus was, No Drama. We bought an Easy Button from Staples and anyone could press it when someone violated this rule.