My Direct Doesn't Want To Change

Manager Tools

Mike Auzenne

Feedback, Strategy, Careers, Coaching, Management, Skills, How-to, Development, Advice, Business, Leadership

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2013

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This guidance describes how to interact with a direct who resists or refuses more, new, or different work because they're "comfortable where they are", or "not interested in promotion."

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0:00.0	Welcome to Manager Tools.
0:02.0	Today's topic, my direct doesn't want to change.
0:05.0	Here we go.
0:07.0	Many manager tools examples use situations where the direct who's being coaster or developed
0:11.5	wants to grow, right?
0:12.5	We love those kinds.
0:14.8	And we think we ought to spend time on those people
0:16.9	who want to grow.
0:17.8	That's right.
0:18.4	And frankly, that's probably where
0:20.4	you're going to get the best return
0:21.5	on your investment of time, right?
0:22.8	Exactly.
0:23.6	All right, but what about those folks who say they don't want that?
0:27.4	And we got to answer that question.
0:29.6	And that question comes up, what do you do?
0:31.2	So there are many different flavors of this question. This
0:33.8	particular cast is about the person who just says I just want to stay where I am. I
0:39.2	am in my job I don't want to grow I don't want to develop I like my job as it is and we
0:44.8	hear this a lot there are a number of different people who say I don't want to
0:49.1	change some people say I like the way I'm doing this one thing. This is not really that cast. This is for the person who says
0:57.1	I'm comfortable. I'm not like you sir or ma'am. I don't want to grow. I don't want to develop. I'm not
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