Rejection is never easy to accept or deal with. It makes it that much harder when you know you’ve put everything you’ve got into making it work, but it just doesn’t have the outcome you hoped for. All leaders who’ve been around have in some way faced this. At some point in their career, they’ve encountered a member who chooses to defy their leadership and refuses to work together, no matter how much effort and concession the leader makes to try and make it work. If you’re just starting off in your leadership career and have yet to encounter this, don’t worry, it’s coming.
Month: July 2020
Vietnamese Team and “Tiền Quỹ” / “Money Pot”
Vietnamese work environment is very vibrant and there are great positive energy within each team. Happy hour several times a week is a very common social event. Larger events such as birthdays and team building trips are also common and could possibly occur monthly. The events can get quite costly and paying for it could be challenging. Luckily, the Vietnamese team culture has a commonly used “money pot” or “tiền quỹ” in place to finance these events.
Why Leaders Lead
Looking at great leaders, we can observe that they’re well respected and very much admired. They have the best office with the best views. There is an amount of automatically given grace leaders enjoys overall. But that’s not why leaders lead, and it should not be the reasons why we seek to lead.
Leadership Back to Basics – Importance of Listening
When we have ideas that we think would really help our team, our project and our organization, we want to share our thoughts and have it taken into serious consideration. If we are deprived of the opportunity to contribute our ideas, we get frustrated, feel unappreciated and cannot put our full potential to practice. That’s the same exact feelings our teams will have if they are not being given the opportunity to share their ideas and contribute.