Comments on: Confronting the Chief of Staff https://cruciallearning.com/blog/confronting-the-chief-of-staff/ VitalSmarts is now Crucial Learning Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:29:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Darrell Harmon https://cruciallearning.com/blog/confronting-the-chief-of-staff/#comment-12062 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 19:25:23 +0000 https://cruciallearning.com/?p=25031#comment-12062 In reply to Darrell Harmon.

… Be Curious … (An edit option would be great.)

]]> By: Darrell Harmon https://cruciallearning.com/blog/confronting-the-chief-of-staff/#comment-12061 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 19:23:05 +0000 https://cruciallearning.com/?p=25031#comment-12061 Excellent advice, as always, Emily.

One thought that strikes me is that the COS maybe have deliberately chosen her communication approach based on her role as mediator. What if the director has issues with Left Out and the COS has positioned herself between the two to actually *facilitate* communication? We don’t know the content of the emails, so I may be off target, but that would explain the asynchronous communication method.

This is where Be Curiosity would help Left Out master their story about the COS’s communication style.

Whatever the reality is, your advice should help all three people involved make progress.

]]> By: Mike https://cruciallearning.com/blog/confronting-the-chief-of-staff/#comment-12057 Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:32:26 +0000 https://cruciallearning.com/?p=25031#comment-12057 Unless there’s an early typo, the Director isn’t Left Out’s director. As I read their question, it seems likely that they are peers. Yet you refer to [my] director or “your director”. Would your answer have been different if the director was a peer?

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