My Direct Disagrees With Me Privately - Part 1

Manager Tools

Mike Auzenne

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🗓️ 12 June 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Part 1 of our guidance on what to do if your direct disagrees with you privately.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Manager Tools.
0:02.0	My direct disagrees with me privately.
0:05.0	Part 1. Here we go.
0:08.0	This cast answers these questions.
0:10.0	What if my direct disagrees with me on something?
0:12.0	What if my direct won with me on something?
0:13.0	What if my direct won't do something because she disagrees?
0:16.0	Well, if you want answers to these questions and more, keep listening.
0:20.0	What a shocker.
0:22.0	Your direct disagrees with you. It's never happened to me.
0:25.0	Never. I mean, you know, if you're a really good boss.
0:28.0	Okay, but I want to give this cast an unofficial title.
0:32.0	I have gotten a hundred questions Mike and you know what it
0:35.1	only this week hit me that I'd gotten all these questions that were essentially
0:38.9	the same question but I couldn't hear it because they were using different words and I'm going to simplify it
0:46.7	rather than giving you all the examples I've gotten in the last year but people say
0:50.8	Mark my director is resistant.
0:53.3	You know, he's slow to move.
0:55.0	My direct won't, you know, he won't join the team.
0:58.9	I started probing more on these questions I was getting and they were all basically the same thing.
1:06.7	Directs believed, or at least I got enough questions to believe that was a significant percentage of directs who believed that if they
1:15.6	disagreed with their boss they could do what they would call resist, which is to say, drag their feet on deliverables, drag their feet on priorities, not
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