Who cares about success, which way do you think would be the most fun?

All of this talk about suckage and rock-hard something or other smells like sexual harrasment to me. Of course I'm reading between the lines.

I went to a leadership seminar at my old job that preached about the "positivity sandwich". It sounds so simple and obvious, but it is so true. If you have someting negative to tell an employee or even a coworker, if you sandwich it around 2 or more things they do well, it makes them so much more eager to improve upon the negative you gave them. I do love my current job, and I know that the people I work for think that I am great, but they don't tell me. They tell me only the things I do wrong. I could bust my ass for 6 hours, accomplishing all manner of different tasks and someone will come to me and say "Did you know that there's no more paper in the copy machine? Yeah, can you make sure that we don't run out of paper in the copy machine? Maybe just check everyday to make sure there's enough paper in there. You know, so that we can copy." Ok, sure. I was just finishing up on this contract for a $4 million condo, but OH MY GOD, are we out of paper???? I am useles..

Becca, I totally hear that! Doesn't happen at my current work, but it happened *all the time* at one of my first jobs. Didn't matter how much you were doing right, the only focus was on the things that went wrong. I definitely try to go out of my way to encourage people when I am leading them rather than being overly critical. Fodder for another post or series of them someday, I guess...