When Fear Holds Leaders Back

Yesterday’s article with its 4 simple points was seen as a gross oversimplification by some people. I would wager those people need the ambiguity that comes from the pump and circumstance of strict frameworks with big consultancy deck flavours of wooden language and in-actionable academic points.

In this video I talk about why it must be simple, clear and actionable again. And how simply resting on “We’re doing a lot of much more advanced things, paying for courses on the latest, we’re giving people access to knowledge and rethinking learning and we’re ultimately super busy creating wellness rooms so we don’t need this mumbo-jumbo about “Get your house right in terms of people, focus on getting them happier and used to the Human Work while bettering their team dynamics, implementing all that Aristotle stands for and most importantly rejig everything around WFAA” is disingenuous at best.

The vast majority of leaders and HR people I ever met know for a fact it’s not “mumbo-jumbo” but the honest truth. They know there’s no other way than distributing the human work but they don’t call it that and don’t ask for it, part of their employees’ job to-do’s.

They‘re afraid people would find it ridiculous and wouldn’t do it. Not the learning on EQ, not the time invested in understanding their emotions and those of their co-workers not even -at first- the team actions that so clearly better their dynamics and make the work so much more enjoyable. They won’t indeed because they’re tired, unloved and mentally and emotionally unwell and exhausted. And because even if they were well, these topics have never been seen as anything other than “fluffy” and people are overworked and ready to riot against any more being thrown their way.

They’re afraid for their jobs if they say anything.