POV: You have a Unicorn Manager 🦄 having your back at work

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The video uses a relatable scenario of a manager protecting a junior team member from an unfair task, which resonates with viewers who have experienced similar workplace dynamics. The creator's expressive delivery and clear explanation of the situation make it engaging and shareable.

Summary

The creator explains why a junior team member should not be assigned a task that was not their mistake, especially when the manager was on leave. She suggests that the task should be handled by someone more senior or the deadline should be moved.

Structure

1Manager receives an email about a task
2Questions why a junior team member is assigned the task
3Explains the junior member is still learning and junior
4States she told the junior member not to handle the task
5Suggests moving the deadline or finding someone else
6Offers to be looped into future communications

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POV: You have a Unicorn Manager 🦄 having your back at work

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Unicorn managers are a dime a dozen but they DO exist 🦄✨ Have you ever had one? #joannabriggs #unicornmanager #managers #worklife #careertok

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Sorry, I'm just gonna stop you there. Why would Sharon be doing that? I think it would need to be redelegated to someone in your team. Surely that would be Tom's remit. I saw your email, but that is not a conversation for Kate to have. I'm really sorry, but first of all, she's still learning. Second of all, she's incredibly junior. I do not want you sending her into the lion's den. So, for a mistake that she didn't make. Yes, so I've told her not to have that conversation, so I'll just wait until she's picked that up. Right. Great idea. Wrong executor. Yes, so I do take issue with a couple of the points that's just been noted there. Um, I'm happy to be circled into comms, but it would really, I believe, sit with marketing. Yes, it's not something that my lot pick up. And actually, there's no bandwidth over here. Yes, she may need to look elsewhere. I mean, either we move the deadline or we find someone else to pick it up. If we're moving the deadline though, I'm foreseeing this completed next quarter. Lottie, come over. Come over. Yes, I was just a little confused as to why my team was asked to do that. Yes, yeah, especially whilst I was on leave. Yeah, kind of felt a bit underhanded. You know very well that that doesn't sit with our team when I do appreciate that obviously you're going through a lot of onboarding and things. A conversation beforehand would have been great. Yeah. So because of that, I've told them not to pick that query up and I will kind of back that back to you. I literally just drafted that email. Don't be sorry. Let's just be better. Yeah. Okay. All right. Okay. Bye. Bye.