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Lessons Learned from the Pizza Shop: More Than Just Dough
Throughout my life, I’ve had the privilege of working in quite a few places, but none taught me as much as working in a pizza shop. You might wonder, “What could you possibly learn from a pizza shop?” Surprisingly, quite a bit. Taking orders at my pizza shop truly opened my eyes to common leadership pitfalls and helped me avoid making the same mistakes in the future.
You are a total boss. You are experiencing relationship abuse. You are not alone.
You can be accomplished. You can be a leader. You can be someone that others look up to, maybe even someone’s hero. You can be crushing it professionally, and you can also be experiencing abuse. Being a leader and experiencing abuse are not mutually exclusive experiences. I felt compelled to write this blog because I see too many accomplished professionals suffering in silence; their image and success have become an additional barrier to seeking and receiving support.
Two things I always want to hear as a supervisor
Self-care isn’t just about what we do on our time off (and many of us leave our jobs and immediately begin the work of being caretakers, which is not exactly ‘time off.’). It’s not just about what we do to process and withstand the impact of our work. It’s also how we do the work itself. To that end, I told each new member of my team about the two phrases I always want to hear as a supervisor.