BECOMING YOUR OWN CHEERLEADER
I remember sitting down with my boss after 14 months in my professional career. Since I had just begun reporting to him, I asked if I was ‘doing OK’. He responded with a question, ‘What do you think?’. I had to pause – because, in that moment, I didn’t know. He looked me in the eye and said ‘You have to become your own evaluator and your own cheerleader. You will have good bosses and bad bosses – sometimes they