So often when I am thinking about what to chat to you about in our Power Play episodes I’m inspired by patterns or themes I am seeing in the work I do.
Sometimes there are things that keep showing up and almost slapping me in the face – this power play topic is no different.
Lately, there seems to be a lot of drama around in the teams I am working with which could have been avoided by simply having a conversation. Seriously that simple.
Then last night, after a crazy couple of weeks, not interested in watching anything o TV really, I stumbled across Empire Records, and well there is nothing like a bit of 90’s nostalgia to lift the spirits – god I love that soundtrack!
In fact some of you may have heard me reference another 90’s classic – Hey Jealousy by the Gin Blossoms before, and the line ‘if you don’t expect too much from me you might not be let down’ Last night, watching Empire Records, yet another clanger ‘till I hear it from you’ was featured, also by the Gin Blossoms, and the line in it says ‘nothings wrong until I hear it from you’
And I think there is a lesson in that – we so often make decisions based on what others are saying – and we don’t just have a conversation with the person.
In fact in the last few weeks I’ve seen this play out in a team I am working with. Where an issue became an absolute all consuming disaster, when all it would have taken to resolve it was a conversation with the person involved – that simple.
So, my invitation to you today is the have the conversation, and hear it directly from them – because until you hear from your team member what their issue is, and what the resolution needs to look like, you will never know how to resolve it.
