Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's topic, managers are communicated through day when we present to clients there's inevitably this

discussion that comes about about how the manager's role relates to the

larger organization. Managers want to understand how do I handle my role as the voice of the company?

Yeah, yeah, that's a big one.

And then they want to square that with, well what does that mean relative to staying close to my team right?

Yeah, and people feel it's black and white, right? Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, these dichotomies. I mean, managers want to know what's my role in terms of keeping my team

informed and then they worry about well how do they balance the

confidentiality with transparency and openness that they're trying to still in

they want to be good you know it's amazing I would say this is this is an

oversimplification, but newer managers want to stay closer to their team and more senior managers, not more senior in terms of age, but just in terms of experience, recognize the need to identify with the organization first.

And it is possible to have two associations in your mind at the same time,

just like the fact that you might be a mother and a wife or a father and a husband right there those are two

associations and also a member of synagogue and also by the way a business professional

those are all associations but you're

associated with your team and you're associated with the organization right they're

both and then the question is you know you can't really say black or white

which one is always true. We do know that ultimately the primary one

is the company. If you don't get that, then everything fails organizationally. If every manager believes that they're aligned with their team

before they're aligned with a company,

you essentially don't have an organization anymore.

You have a loose confederation, which I don't know any loose confederations who all agree on pay principles.

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