Ever Pondered The Impact You Have On Your Employees’ Lives?

Just how far-reaching is the “wake” you create as a leader?

As a leader of people, it’s important from time to time to hear from others about the impact you have on them. This is why 360 leadership assessments are useful. The report you get back can tell you where you are on track and doing great as a leader and where you need to tighten up and develop more skill.

Understanding the perceptions of others and your impact on them very much matters in your own development, both as a leader and a human being.

Your 360 may reveal that you have unhappy people working for you. This is what we call your leadership “wake.”

One element of the wake you create that you may not have considered is the impact that happiness or unhappiness at work can have on employees’ families.

A recent HBR article exploring how parents’ experience at work impacts their kids concluded that… “Parents who experienced more autonomy on the job and who had more-supportive supervisors and coworkers were in turn warmer and more engaged when interacting with their infants.” The researchers followed the families for some years and found that kids of…