In a previous role I was gifted a lot of autonomy and assigned an intern.
It was great because I could implement all my own ideas, without any resistance, and have help doing it too.
But I quickly learnt an unexpected downside.
In my eagerness to keep improving I kept updating our process and I’m pretty sure it drove my intern crazy!
I forgot what it was like to be an intern.
All they wanted to do was clock in, clock out, expend as little brain power as possible and I was ruining that.
Thomas Duggan 