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Are you an adult with ADHD entering a leadership position?

Overcoming Distractions-Thriving with ADHD, ADD

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The Importance of Compassion in Leadership

When you're leading people, their stuff doesn't end in the office. So we also have to be able to bring compassion and understanding to what's going on outside of the office. Do you have a sick parent that's causing a lot of difficulty for you to perform? I have a client whose dad got diagnosed with cancer. And all of a sudden, she couldn't focus at work and was really struggling. She'd been at work for all of like an hour, maybe an hour and a half. Then said, Roboss, like I think I need, I'm not getting anything done. I Think I just need to take one day off. His response: Take Monday too.

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Speaker 2
You know, when you're right, you can hate your job because you don't have the skills and the support and the resources or you can love the same job because
Speaker 1
you've
Speaker 2
got essential support. Yeah.
Speaker 1
Yeah. And in talking about leadership, right, another critical piece to leadership that we haven't touched on yet, that I want to make sure we get to, is because we're talking about mostly corporate stuff and in the career, when you're leading people, their stuff doesn't end in the office. So we also have to be able to bring compassion and understanding to what's going on outside of the office.
Speaker 2
Do you have a sick parent
Speaker 1
that's causing a lot of difficulty for you to be able to perform? I have a client whose dad got diagnosed with cancer. And all of a sudden, she couldn't focus at work and was really struggling. And her boss was like, we can talk about adjusting your time. Like you can do 80% and still get paid and like for a little while and then you'd come back to full time or whatever. And she just didn't, wasn't really hearing it. I even said it to her. I was like, do that. And she wasn't hearing it. Yeah. And then one day, one Thursday, or no, it was a Friday, she was there. She'd been at work for all of like an hour, maybe an hour and a half. And then said, Roboss, like I think I need, I'm not getting anything done. I'm not focused. I think I just need to take the day. And he was like, yeah, take Monday too. Not in a mean way, not as a punishment. Just like, yeah, you need a break. She took that Friday. She took that Monday. We were talking the other day. She was still saying like, that's the best thing my boss ever did for me was encouraging me to making it safe for me to need to take Friday off and then encouraging me to take Monday off helped her bounce back. And she has nothing but good things to say about her boss. And because she told him what was going on in her personal life that was affecting her ability to perform and two that he was considerate and gentle about it and treated her with dignity around it instead of being resentful. Yeah. That's that's being
Speaker 2
a leader. That's being a leader, exactly.
Speaker 1
But I've, sir, I've had bosses that like, if you had personal stuff going on, they resented that and got mad at you for it. Yeah.
Speaker 2
Yeah.

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