When it comes to being friends with those we lead, there is little room between: 1) a hard “No! I can’t be friends with them.” and 2) the tricky “I’m too friendly with them and it makes giving them feedback too hard.”
The latter of the two options above tends to cause leaders to believe that it’s best not to be friends with those we lead, propagating the belief that we can’t be friends with those we lead anyways. However, it is possible to be friends with those we lead!
Join me as I break down this common misperception and lay out the framework we all can follow to be friends with those we lead AND successfully lead them!
