Managing Your Favorite, But Difficult Team Member

As a team leader, you might adore one of your team members. Perhaps they remind you of yourself at a young age.

But when their behavior isn’t working for other team members, you can either let your favorite kid know, or you can whistle along and ignore the chatter, intending to not want to hurt your bond — perhaps the bad behavior will work itself out.

While modern management philosophies of radical candor advocate the former, many compassionate humans are wired to steer away from sharing criticism.

The short-term win of maintaining one’s fantasy that a favorite team member is perfect comes at an incredibly painful long-term cost of that person’s failure.

Who are you protecting? How is it serving you?

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