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Stories from the field: Unique relationship with supervisors

Stories from the field: Unique relationship with supervisors

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Stories from the field: Unique relationship with supervisors

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- Twice in my career, I started working under one supervisor, and then a different supervisor took the team over shortly after. The first time, I was working for a good leader who seemed to value me in general, but I clearly wasn't one of her favorites. She had a tight group of longtime employees around her. From my perspective, those employees had it made. About a year later, however, a new supervisor took the team over and I was almost instantly part of his ingroup. He believed in me and I really started to thrive. The opposite happened several years later at my next job. When I started the current supervisor and I really clicked, and my performance was strong from the get go. But another supervisor took over and I felt like I had been kicked out of the circle for no good reason at all. In each of these situations, I was the same, only the supervisors changed. This taught me that leaders don't lead people in groups. That's not the way it feels to their followers. Each individual…

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