When I asked my coaching client what they were most interested in talking about today during their coaching call, she immediately responded, “I need to give feedback to someone on my team and this team member does not take feedback well.” In my head I thought, “Do you give feedback well?” but I did not say that. Instead, I said, “This is a great topic to dig into because each time you give feedback, you learn a lot about the other person, but most importantly, you learn the most about yourself.”

Managing isn’t just for managers. Matter of fact, at some point in your career, you have come across managers who manage, managers who lead, some who balance both, and likely some who do neither. While you’ve been honing your skills, preparing for the next steps on your career journey, and growing your capacity, you keep running into people who seem to have skipped the honing, preparing, and growing and seemingly out of nowhere, just became a manager. And now, they’re your manager.

So, what do you do? Stay out of the way? Focus on your own work? Vent to colleagues? Manage up?

Rejection Causes Burnout