Your Employees Are Not You

As leaders we need to learn to remove ourselves from the equation and understand our employees as individuals, instead of assuming our employees are or should be like us.

False assumptions leaders make:

➡️ I'm really good at presentations, so my employees should be good at it, too.

➡️ I don't understand or value metrics, so my employees shouldn't either.

➡️ I would hate that role/work, so nobody else will want to do it either.

➡️ I don't get along with so-and-so, therefore nobody likes working with them.

Leaders often project their own preferences on employees and job candidates, so they miss the opportunity to put exactly the right person into exactly the right role.

"Others Awareness" is a big part of Self-Awareness, and it starts with realizing that not everybody is like you.

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