Susan Ní Chríodáin on why leaders often miss their own negative impact on teams. She explains how mood spreads through a group and tells Kevin to start by checking in with himself before trying to change anything else.
What you might not be seeing is the contagion of what you're— the impact of what you've done is as well. So you come in in a mood, everybody's tiptoeing around you, but also your day is going to go through that lens. And also everybody else might just pick up on, you know, turn into a bad mood as well. And I hate using good or bad, but it's an easy way of describing it. But actually the mood, that shift in mood happens. And so we may not get anywhere. So what can Kevin do? I think self-awareness is a huge thing. And Kevin can check in with himself before he ever does anything. That takes a lot more, I think, than we're aware of ourselves. And, you know, one of the questions I often ask people on the podcast, my podcast, is, how do you know you're aware? And I think we're often not aware of our tendencies. And so we have to start small.
