Congratulations to our new managers! Alhamdulillah it was an honor and privilege to attend the session address the new managers in GP, where PLC opened up an opportunity for several of us - alumni from the past Dynamic Leadership training, together with my fellow alumni Yoganathan and Sofia Shereen - to reach out and share some thoughts, perspective and ideas for our journey as managers to help prepare them for the exciting (and no doubt, challenging) times up ahead in their career journey, and our journey together as fellow leaders!
It was a very enlightening learning session, with excellent facilitation from Pak Tam @Nizam, kicking off with participants being assigned to complete a series of self-assessment questions that enlightened them about the concept of "accidental diminishers": how several of our characteristics can unrealizingly have a negative effect to the people around us.
As expected, the most common Accidental Diminisher was the Rescuer and Protector: where our tendency is to "help" and "shield" our subordinates in times of difficulty. While it seems noble, these tendencies might have a damaging side effect that diminishes them, by robbing and depriving them of the ability to develop their own independent capacity to solve problems, take away that sense of responsibility and accountability, and ultimately make them more and more dependent upon us. In more extreme cases, if we "rescue" them too often, they might subconsciously produce low quality work, expecting their bosses to pick up the slack! Other common accidental Diminishers were Perfectionist and Rapid Responder.
The alumni forum session kicked off with some excellent sharing from my alumni buddy Yoga, who shared about the necessity of adjusting our communication styles with different stakeholders, learning from our mistakes and being flexible to adapt, in order to make the best of the people around us for us to be effective Multipliers. Sofia then shared about some of the "mistakes" she made in her early time as a manager, and how she learned to acknowledge them and learn from them.
I first started by congratulating the attendees for their new appointment. The organization has deemed them worth of handling their most valuable resources: the people. We have the potential to make a huge difference and shape the future of our organization: let's make it count!
I then emphasized that those accidental Diminishers aren't necessarily "bad", in fact a lot of them come from a place of sincerity. Use this as a means of self-awareness: how our behavior affects others, how we can leverage those strengths, while at the same time knowing how we can do better.
Alhamdulillah it was also nice to bump into my Sydney buddy Iskandar, as well as my good friend chief @Asrif.
Thanks to Bella, Pak Tam & team for having us. All the best to our new leaders
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