{"id":1822,"date":"2023-01-20T01:25:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T01:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/1822\/"},"modified":"2023-01-20T01:25:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T01:25:06","slug":"1822","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/1822\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7022011088992919552><\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do we move from &#8220;you and me&#8221; to &#8220;us&#8221;?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;ve had several clients recently share situations where they get frustrated with somebody else for not doing something, and say a variation of &#8220;If I can&#8217;t trust them to do it, I&#8217;ll have to do it myself!&#8221; The only options they can think of are &#8220;You do it&#8221; or &#8220;I do it&#8221;, which can quickly become antagonistic. I consider this a zero-sum game of assigning individual responsibility, playing a blame game from opposite sides of the table.  &#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I prefer a more generative possibility where people work together from the same side of the table: &#8220;How can we address this problem together?&#8221; Instead of you and me, that question shifts to an &#8220;us&#8221; mentality where we are on the same team against the problem. &#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I was already thinking of a post along these lines, but my therapist recently recommended I read Terrence Real&#8217;s book &#8220;Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship&#8221;, which offers the exact same advice for people to address their relationship issues. &#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;So when you notice yourself falling into a blaming &#8220;you and me&#8221; mindset toward a problem, pause and take a deep breath, then consider how you could work together as an &#8220;us&#8221; team to address that problem.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;#collaboration #teamwork #leadership &#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do we move from &#8220;you and me&#8221; to &#8220;us&#8221;?&#8221; &#8220;&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;ve had several clients recently share situations where they get frustrated with somebody else for not doing something, and say a variation of &#8220;If I can&#8217;t trust them to do it, I&#8217;ll have to do it myself!&#8221; The only options they can think of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}