Emma Shaw: Chief Rebel

❣️ If you’ve found yourself spending most of the week managing people instead of doing the thing that made you start the business in the first place, take a minute to write down, properly, what your week has become. Not the job title, the real list: the people problems, the decisions, the emotional weight. Read it back and ask yourself, is this a job I'd have chosen? If yes, start owning it out loud. If no, ask yourself, what would you say to a friend who told you they'd lost their magic like this?

❣️ Nobody's founding story is "I dreamed of managing people one day.” For a lot of founders, becoming a leader it's not a decision that they consciously make, it's a promotion by consequence, earned by being good enough at the work that there was suddenly too much of it to do alone. The instincts that built the business don't automatically know how to lead the people now doing it for you.

But you can't opt out of becoming a boss once you're successful enough to need a team. That part's not optional. What is optional is whether you let it happen to you by default, or whether you notice the trade as it's happening and get deliberate about which parts of yourself you're willing to hand over.

❣️If you manage people, this is worth sitting with…

Are you creating space for people to be heard, or are you accidentally running the emotional equivalent of a complaints box that nobody ever empties?

Not every complaint deserves a fix. Some of them deserve one quick question back. "What do you want to happen next?" It sounds almost rude in how simple it is, and it's the single fastest way to find out whether someone's ready to advocate for themselves or whether they just needed somewhere to vent

❣️THIS PAGE IS FINE BUT THE PARTY’S ELSEWHERE❣️I mostly hang out on my own personal profile. Lots of Rebel stuff about icky, tricky human dynamics and leadership juice, plus the occasional dose of tough-love.

But I also share me. Because Im a whole human with a life (and a weird little dog called Percy).

If you want the Rebel juice AND the human behind it, go over there… go on…

https://www.facebook.com/emma.shaw.7334

❣️ Next time someone vents to you, try this before you respond with sympathy or a fix. Ask, "what have you actually asked for so far?" That's it. It costs you one sentence and it instantly tells you whether you're in a venting conversation or an advocacy conversation, which changes what you say next.

❣ NEED YOUR HELP! If you were offered a quick, simple, super-affordable digital product to help you kickass life more, what name would appeal to you most? Comment A or B and you whether you'd like to perhaps be one of my Rebel pioneers that test this product... (or DM me if you prefer) ❣

❣ A: Say No With Confidence: Braver, Bolder Boundaries in 7 Days
❣B: Be More Bold: Break Free From People-Pleasing & Refine Your Boundaries in 7 Days

What say you?