let's talk confidence as a leader, gossip, mistakes and lessons (q&a)!

[@shyannedelacruz2642]

Becoming a first time supervisor this past year of 2021 &’ I appreciate you so much your channel is amazing and helps me so much I truly adore you doll !! Thank you 🙏 ☀️❤️

[@makeda.andrews]

You are so welcome Shyanne! I’m so glad the content is resonating and helping you

[@GroUp512]

So important to understand where people are in their personal life to know the impact and reason to how their working. Root cause is so important. Great video!!

[@makeda.andrews]

💯 it feels like this is a leadership myth people hold on to and hide behind. Would you agree?

[@GroUp512]

@@makeda.andrews absolutely. I think the difference is some managers want to distance themselves from their staff so they can discipline and hold accountable, the alternative should be to get closer to staff to understand the issues to support and guide to success. It’s a misunderstanding of the leader’s role and goal.

[@piscesrastakween]

I really like you. You’re pretty awesome. New manager here. It’s alot I’d work and sometimes I find it challenging to manage so many things all at one time. But I’m getting better every day. Thanks for these vids

[@makeda.andrews]

Well I like you too! Mainly because you’re not afraid to admit something is a challenge and you’ve got tenacity to get through it. Congratulations on your new role. Keep up the great work! Look out for some fresh content coming your way soon!

[@rebeccaadofoamegah1048]

Wow, very comprehensive, sooo selfless in providing advice and suggestions. Keep up the good work Mak. I truly love how you use your own experiences to help us understand that we are not the first to face these challenges and we won't be the last. Thank you.

[@makeda.andrews]

Rebecca! Thank you 🙏🏾 it’s a pleasure to be able to serve !

[@JenniferBrick]

How we talk about ourselves is sooo important! Love this Q&A Mak!

[@makeda.andrews]

Right? And we don’t even realize how it affects us but it does!

[@wisdomwalking8897]

Love that confidence equation. You’re such a good speaker in making things land in a simple way!

[@makeda.andrews]

Thank you so much. I truly appreciate it.

[@savannahraisor1154]

I actually prefer the long videos. Thank you for your content it has been so helpful

[@makeda.andrews]

You are so welcome Savannah. Also, I like longer videos too! I watch youtube videos all the time and love it when others share meaty content.

[@WhipJenn]

This video is helping me so much. The questions and answers are what I need as a new manager but also the affirmation that I’m not alone in how I feel. Thank you for this content.

[@bernicerogo9190]

If you could tackle the challenge of being new in an organisation as a manager encountering resistance from the people you lead who have stayed longer in the organisation and have a close relationship with the top managers

[@yichispiritual]

I would not say it's being friends, but more like managerial decision making informed by personal information.

[@theIAM8888]

You are so brilliant and you're my favorite thing right now because I am having a crazy time at my new job as the general manager and people being disrespectful to the point to where I'm like okay go home.

[@JemJules]

I worked with the biggest and I mean biggest AWHOLES! And yes they have their salt! Thanks for the truth 💯

[@Eric-pu7lp]

Hi how do you handle being a young manager some former older employees are not happy with me

[@CORRADOMARCO1]

Great video Mak, a number of points you kindly shared have resonated ! Glad you referenced the links as there is additional content I am keen to follow up on

[@makeda.andrews]

Awesome! Glad it resonated Marco 😊

[@jonathanvermillion7263]

Hey I like the long videos!

[@DylanChestnutt-mp1my]

Love your channel !!

[@shyannedelacruz2642]

OMG YASSS I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS ❤️

[@tommytuomaala9087]

What to do dont mater, how one does it maters. Choose a rolemodel you aprechiate, cheris and adore. Dont copy but cultuvate the traits oif the rolemodell meaningfull for you. Choose a positive style to enhance and endorce. Practice makes the master.

[@tommytuomaala9087]

Follow up...we aint mystical zodiac signs, one better than another, we are built of same neurons and building blocks. We are all the same. How we execute ourselves differ. That is the difference. Choises we cultivsyr and make with our neurons.

[@lazysquirrel5088]

Employees are going to gossip. I don't engage in gossip. I focus only on the work. Your feelings have a small amount when it comes to the business at hand

[@saza3485]

U are a beauty with excellent brain. I love ur contents.

[@tommytuomaala9087]

As 13 years mec eng and few years pm. This seems as entry level easy skills. However my style of uppholding accountability is still insecure and non assertive. For that i clearly need help.

[@miriambecker6791]

Hello Thank you for this video. I just started my first position as a supervisor of a memory care unit. My boss is happy with me. However, today a colleague came to me (once again) to remind me to enter activity information into an app that the company uses. She was pleasant and appreciative of my efforts. However, I am left feeling embarrassed and a little upset about being told once again that I forgot to do something. Being supervisor of a memory care unit pulls me in many directions. How can I over come my own emotions and take this experience and turn into being more productive and not have another coaching moment?

[@makeda.andrews]

Hello Miriam, the most productive thing would be to be okay with having coaching moments. Do your best to not repeat the same mistakes of course but recognize that no one is perfect and you will have trip ups here and there which is expected.

[@soloist72]

What should your first group speech address be for your first team meeting a supervisor?

[@tommytuomaala9087]

Short presentation of your ethos pathos and logos for the situation and let your audience clear any misunderstandings before cutting into the chase.

[@NeighborhoodBasketCase]

What is the best way to find a mentor? I could really use one in my life to bounce ideas off of, because I recently got myself into a sticky situation at work

[@makeda.andrews]

The best way to find a mentor is to ask. Ask someone that you not just admire but that could give you valuable insights and push you to do the things you are uncomfortable doing. The worst that can happen is that they say no. But to be honest, the best thing that could happen is that you wind up with a mentor that changes your entire life ;)

[@NeighborhoodBasketCase]

@@makeda.andrews oh okay I suppose thats easy enough! Thank you for answering and everything you do! Your videos have given me exactly the advice I need

[@tommytuomaala9087]

Ask and you shall recieve. But be mindfull of wasting his/her time, maximise your use of a mentor.

[@juliettepibien8662]

New introverted manager here!

[@deshalawilliams3955]

I do have a series of fears. Thank you

[@makeda.andrews]

You are so welcome! We all do.

[@tamaraphuckington6201]

❤❤❤

[@Stillrocks33]

🤤🤤🤤

[@joycewatt8289]

I disagree. I don’t think you have to tell your coworkers personal things about yourself in order to work well with them or build trust. Trust is built if you and they are trustworthy people. The problem becomes when what you shared with a coworker/team member is then used as gossip for others to talk about behind your back. That lends to a toxic work environment that has nothing to do with and is often short of “team building” The problem is that people think their coworkers are their friends and they’re not. Can you gain or develop a friendship at work? Absolutely! Will everyone be a friend? Absolutely not! I’ve been working many many years…too many to be exact 😂 But I can tell you one thing for sure and that is over the years I have learned of other coworkers business and I didn’t learn it from them. Your example about telling the coworker she’s “having a tough time at home” could quickly spread to her being a victim of gossip and may add stress to her already stressful situation at home.

[@Nikita-jv1ci]

Sounds like you didn't really listen to her example. She said that coworkers sharing personal information or that they are having a tough time at home is not something that you as a manager should not stop as it is not considered harmful gossip.