Brad Johnson's boss told him he was a bad leader despite strong financial results. Ashamed, he hired a coach, identified team apathy, and started connecting with people on a personal level. His team noticed the shift and trust rebuilt.
I stopped driving hard. I got pretty lazy. And he called me in and basically laid it down and was like, you are not being a good leader of people. Yeah, the company's making money. Things are headed in the right direction. You've stabilized a ship that's been rocky for a number of years. Good for you. But you have a team of people who depend on you and that you need to actually care about. I went home like a dog with my tail between my legs and just kind of had a choice to make. Am I gonna be scared, be sad, be disappointed that this guy that, that believed in me now doesn't? Or am I actually going to do the work of getting a coach, which I did, figure out, hey, where are the apathy points? Where do I need to dig in and actually do some of the hard work of meeting with people, getting to know them on a real personal level, and turning my own kind of leadership ship around? And so I would say my proudest accomplishment in that was I did the, the kind of the hard work of learning a lot more about who I am and some of my negative tendencies. And fighting back against those to lead the people well and have a way more cohesive team and a team of people who believed that I really cared about them and loved them, which I do think matters quite a bit.
