Being In A Relationship Is Like Working For A Company
Jacob Morgan
5x Best-Selling Author, Futurist, & Keynote Speaker. Founder of Future Of Work Leaders (Global CHRO Community). Focused on Leadership, The Future of Work, & Employee Experience
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Every romantic relationship faces challenges and bumps along the way.
When the challenges inevitably come, you’re faced with a choice—do you keep things going for the long term, or do you end things because you don’t see a future?
If you choose to keep the relationship going and fight through the challenges, you have to do everything you can to make it work. That might mean making changes to your personal life and routine, working through issues with your partner, compromising, or being interested in their hobbies and activities.
There’s no guarantee that the relationship will last, but at least you can say you did everything you could and gave it your best.
Working for an organization is the same as being in a romantic relationship.
At some point, you’ll inevitably be faced with the choice to make things work with the company or jump ship. The choice may come after the challenge of a bad performance review or if you have a poor relationship with your boss or don’t see growth opportunities.
If you decide the work relationship is worth fighting for, you have to do everything you can to make it work. That might include things like having a tough conversation with your leader, addressing issues, getting more involved with the company—whatever it takes to fight for the relationship.
If the relationship isn’t worth fighting for, then it’s time to move to something else and find another job.
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Is your work relationship worth fighting for? If it is, what are you going to do?
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3yWell said
Assistant Manager - Talent Acquisition Specialist @ Evoke HR Solutions Pvt. Ltd. | Hiring for Premiere Leading Govt PSU Mining Industry
3yYes its so true!
Instructional Coach @ Baker-Ripley | Communication and Media Studies
3yI had a connection while reading this article. I was just comparing a job with the last relationship I had. It makes sense!
Maximizer, Developer and Connector of People and Teams
3yI always thought work was just like a relationship, and leaders are just like parents. More precisely, workplace are about people, and leadership is just like parenting, grammatically identical but a bit more in meaning, in my book. In my team, I ask for engagement and engage right back. I’m a demanding supervisor and also one as a dad. My ownership and accountability, partnering with my wife and kids go well deep and I promote that in my teams as well. Self-accountability is tops, supported by peer-A and next top-down and bottom up. …”teaming” in a nutshell.