Employee Engagement is the Result of NOT Being the Hero of Your Own Story

Paul Hebert Unwrapped

Here’s a question for you.

Should you be the hero of your own story?

When you describe your career, your job, your function, do you talk about it in a way that makes you the focus of that story? Imagine yourself in an interview. Are you imagining yourself talking about what YOU did? Are you telling the story in a way in which people would walk away knowing YOU were the hero? Does your story clearly paint you as the prime mover – the cause of success? It proabably does. That’s what we expect in interviews. Blow your own horn right?

But maybe that is the opposite of what we should be looking for when we want to hire someone to drive greater outputs and greater engagement. Maybe being the hero of our own story is the opposite of what we want as a leader.

I asked the question because…

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