Start slow

This sign may not be out the front of your new workplace or on the door of that meeting you’re about to walk into, but take its message on.

When you’re working in a new area, starting a new project, trying some new processes or initiating new things, start slow. There’s plenty we don’t know and can’t yet see or understand. Start, yes. But no need to go all frenetic and chaotic.

You can still be committed, interested and intrigued ... and slow.

Many people are frustrated with change, that it’s:

🌕 too fast

🌕 not fast enough

🌕 too much

🌕 never ending

🌕 yawn, just the same as last year.

Take care. Moving fast may indeed break things. And people.

You don’t need to hide, restrict or withhold. It’s not that. It’s care, caution and safety. For you first ... and then others.

Boo! It’s why the worst leaders are brash, pushy, rude and dangerous. And completely unaware.

Yay! It’s why the best leaders ask questions, observe and enquire, are curious and engaging, building up awareness, scoping it out … and then moving.