Welcome back to the Look and Sound of Leadership.

An ongoing series of executive coaching tips designed to help you be perceived in the workplace the way you want to be perceived. I'm Tom Henschel, your executive coach and today

we're talking about Ask the Coaches, your questions. We're back with Mindy Dana.

Hi Mindy.

Hello Tom, I'm delighted to be back.

It's great to have you back.

And we are answering questions that you all sent to us.

Keep those letters coming because Mindy and I will do another episode later this year.

These are occasional episodes.

I'm going to start by reading an email from Jesse.

We don't know if Jesse is a man or a woman, but we've decided that it's a woman, so we'll see.

Here we go.

I'm an assistant manager at Walmart.

I really want to continue to move up within the company.

I've been promoted five times since I started four years ago.

I reached the salaried level with my last promotion. Now I feel as if I still have that hourly

mindset and I want to be more professional and more

proficient in my management style. I need to learn how not to be so nice.

Also I need to learn how to manage through my people so I can have a day off here and there.

My last day off was in September and still no end in sight, because if I'm not there, nothing

will be completed to my standards.

Do you have any tips for me to grow as a successful manager?

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