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5 Questions to Ask Your Manager to 10x Your Impact at Work
Average players want to be left alone. Good players want to be coached. Great players want to be told the truth.
Do you want to 10x your impact at work? Do you know what behaviors hold you back? What about your team — do they admire, respect, and acknowledge you? Do they find you helpful?
The gap between how you view your behaviors and actions and how others perceive you is always huge. You may think you’re a great team player, or the job that you just finished was outstanding. But how you view your performance may not align with how your boss or team members view it.
You may think you’re being helpful when you step in and solve others’ problems, but your behavior — the way you tell others what to do or how to solve problems — may come across as obnoxious.
The project that you just delivered may look like a great success story to you — on time, high quality with great feedback from customers — but the way you dealt with people along the way or how you made decisions or took actions annoyed many at work. Instead of the project building relationships and bringing people together, it destroyed many.
Many employees are shocked when they learn about this gap between perception and reality. But by the time they receive feedback, they may have already burnt too many bridges or lost great opportunities.
Who doesn’t want a perfect manager? We all do — someone who can give you feedback on the spot, on time, someone who’s always helping you amplify your impact, and someone who cares about your progress, learning, and growth.
But let’s face reality. Most managers are so busy with their daily responsibilities — meeting deadlines, stakeholder management, solving conflicts, planning the next big thing — that they hardly have time to think about your growth, align your interests with the best opportunities or give you constant feedback to help you learn, improve and grow.
Now, you can either waste your time wishing for a perfect work experience, complain about what your manager lacks or how unlucky you’ve been, obsess about how much better your life would be if only you had a manager who…
