Create accountability
Self Improvement
Ask your boss to hold you accountable. What behaviours or bad habits should they be calling you out on?
Talk to your boss about how best to hold you accountable.
- Are there particular behaviours that you would like them to keep an eye out for?
- Would it help if they challenged you every week or so on whether you’ve been doing the right work?
- Is there a specific type of work that you have a habit of doing, even when you shouldn’t be?
- Does your boss know, and would it help you stop if they kept asking you about it?
When to take this action
This action is from 'Do the right work, not the easy work' and should be used when you're not sure what to do, when you're a new manager, when you're stressed, when your team is under pressure
Need something else?
In your personal development time
Do your job, not your team's
Are you doing the easy work, instead of the right work?
In your personal development time
Keep yourself on the straight and narrow
Bad habit of doing the wrong work? Worried you might slip?
In your one-to-ones
Help me, help you
Your team will surely know if you have the bad habit of doing their job for them. Ask them to help you stop, and tell them how.
In your one-to-ones
Stop yourself being sucked in
Team needs your help? Resist the urge to get your hands dirty.