I got a section about how you gotta be careful with your words as a leader you must be careful not to gossip not to become too familiar casual or unguarded with your troops gossip sarcasm and flippant remarks all carry too much weight when thrown around by the leader ribbing comments that might seem harmless among friends can have a real impact on a subordinate even legitimate criticism needs to be delivered with caution preferably in private so that dignity is maintained this is not to say that critical mistakes should not be reviewed so the whole team can learn but criticism must be constructive and aimed at not an individual’s potential but at the specific mistakes themselves this is I’ll do this all because you know I’ll be sitting around joking around with everyone and we’ll be having a good time and I’ll throw his anger at someone and I’ll be like yeah that was an uncool you know and sometimes I’m wanting that I won’t even realize and I’ll I don’t have to think about it and I’ll say oh yeah I what conversation did you and I have about being an asshole I was like hey Dave you know like I’m an asshole and I have to basically muzzle that we’ve had several times had it several times and and you have thrown some zingers out where I’ve given you the look like well that was an asshole move right there yeah and you’re like yes it was perhaps worth it maybe not but yeah that’s one of those I I realize this you know there’s two there’s two ends to this one end is when you’re in a leadership position you don’t realize the weight of your compliments and you don’t realize the weight of your criticisms so you might not think saying hey echo that video looked great you know or whatever you might be might think I’m not gonna tell that go because I don’t care hey the videos video is good to go but he knows that no it’s like yeah it actually carries weight and and I won’t forget that all day long I’ll be and basically it’s a it’s a lack of awareness of like hey I’m actually like in an elevated position in this team whatever I’ll make that mistake you know I made it I would make this mistake at trade you know when I was or in task unit bruiser but I would make the mistake but as I started to understand I realized hey you need to be careful with your words you need to be careful you need to understand the weight of the impact of the things that you’re saying both positive and negative because they carry weight that you may or may not understand from that leadership position
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