Once you hit the point where you have lost faith in your manager/director/leadership team - be it from multple frustrating experiences, finding a hopeless lack of vision, too much micro-management, churn, or other realizations that cause friction and leave you feeling unsupported and uninspired - can you ever recover from that? I worry that there’s a mental threhold that I have crossed that I may not be able to come back from. Maybe it is time for a change?
Yes that is what you need (change). Good luck!
We have similar problem at Walmart Labs. Changing the team is what I am trying to do.
Mention two things unsupported and uninspired. Can you elaborate how would you imagine to be supported? What would be the best scenario if you were to actually be inspired?
Thanks for the thoughtful follow-up. For support, I envision a positive working relationship with management focused on growth, opportunity, and support to get things done. For feeling inspired, there is too often a feeling of drudgery and busywork, micro-management and lack of empowerment that leaves me bored doing work that isn’t the best fit for my skills. I would hope to feel the opposite where I am engaged and empowered to be proactive to tackle challenges. I get that a lot of the above is on me and my failure to deal with the situation better and earlier. My worry is that I let it go too long and won’t be able to recover the disillusionment and positive working relationship.
No worries at all. Those are great thoughts that you have and also very aligned with a the idea of creating a healthy team. Here's another question for you, close your eyes and imagine you were the manager how would you manage your team what were the things that you would do what were the things that you wouldn't do? The idea here is to make sure you are idealistic and you want to create the most awesome team the way that you can imagine it as if that manager actually actually existed.
No, it's a bit like dating someone you really love, and then a few years in something happens where you can't see them in the same light any more. Something you never anticipated about them. You could work on regaining that trust and overcoming it, but ultimately the surprise revealed you weren't so compatible after all and should cut your losses. Life is too short.
Sadly most companies don’t hire good managers, in my limit yoe ~ 10, I have a handful of mediocre and bad managers and just few that are worth to work for them
Maybe *disillusioned* is a good way to describe my current state.
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Nope. The only way is to change teams/managers.