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Can You Be Friends With Your Employees?
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- I would show my emotions on my sleeves.
- If I was upset, they would be upset.
- I'm like, "Hey man, can you you know like it just was it sucked." I would say that where I'm at now in my career is that you can be friends with your employees as long as you maintain a clear line.
- Like you need to change this." So, it's just maintaining that line.
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0:00Can you be friends with your employees? So, when I started I was friends with all my employees. Whatever the professional line was, I definitely didn't have it. I would show my emotions on my sleeves. If I was upset, they would be upset. I'd take my emotions out on them. When I needed them to change something, it was weird cuz we're friends. I'm like, "Hey man, can you you know like it just was it sucked." I would say that where I'm at now in my career is that you can be friends with your employees as long as you maintain a clear line. And the easiest way that I have delineated this is literally doing a hat change. I'll start a conversation and be like friend hat, and then I'll talk whatever I'm going to talk. And sometimes I'm like, "Hey man, boss hat.
0:34Like this is this is what's going wrong. Like you need to change this." So, it's just maintaining that line.