How to Stop Avoiding Difficult Conversations: 6 Signs It's You

When you have an underperformer on your team, but you haven’t given them specific performance feedback, you're reinforcing their underperformance.

They may think that no news is good news, and they don’t need to do anything different.

This is Day 2 of a 7-part series, recut from a live workshop I ran called Stop Rescuing Your Underperformers. I’m looking at one leadership blind spot each day.

There's a person on your team who isn't delivering, and the premise I’m exploring this week is that they're more likely to be a symptom of the problem, rather than the root cause of it.

Underperformers are made. They’re made by the things their leaders do, but can’t see the impact of.

Yesterday was about accountability. Today is the one that stops you fixing accountability: can you handle conflict, or is this your blind spot?

This one’s tricky, because it hides behind noble virtues. You tell yourself you're being kind. But in reality, you're not being kind; it’s more likely that you're protecting yourself from the discomfort of a difficult conversation.

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The 7 Leadership Blind Spots, one a day: