Jefferson Fisher

I'm going to cut all the fluff here and just get right to the point.

Cool?

So I'm telling you this because it helps get right to the point.

Number two,

There should also be this aspect of y'all are there for a job, all right?

And yes, you can be friends and friendly and you're going to want to keep that.

And that has a lot to do with your tone and behavior, which it sounds like, Dalen, that's exactly what you're trying to achieve.

It's how do you take it from friendship to also saying, okay, we need to structure this in a way where we still get the job done.

done.

Here, I want you to rely on language around teamwork, language around organization, teamwork around direction.

So what I like to tell new leaders like yourself, the more you can use words like alignment, direction,

Those are words that a captain would use, right?

You're setting the roadmap of what you see.

So get really good at using language that kind of forecasts the direction and movement of where you're wanting to take them.

So instead of this, hey, I need to have a conversation with you.

I'm not happy about what you're doing.

This isn't going well or whatever it is.

have conversations around, I like to move us in a direction where you and I can do this more efficiently, and I need your help with this, right?

You're telling them you still need their help in the same way they need your help.

And so to have that open line of communication of that, hey, we're going in this direction together,