it’s ok to say “I’m People ... accept that. sorry.” People acknowledge that. Take a chanceAcceptance EIPRESSURE
R9 Well, the social skills, how to do things. For example, one of my frequent role models managed
by meeting regularly with all of this employees individually. And I retained that technique until I
retired. Even when I was the senior civilian in all of the (agency name) S&T (science and technology), I
would try to meet with everybody, every individual group as frequently as I could – and show an interest
in their work. Some of it was very difficult and called for a lot of pre-homework, but you tried to do
that because when the top individual met with you in your organization and shows interest in your work, I
knew how much that meant to the individual because it meant that way to me.
(^) Researcher: So the prework, what did that entail?
(^) R9: There were a lot of things. In our case, you had
to submit forms on your progress and what your plans you were to do in your research projects.
They were very different from mine. I in essence was a spectroscopist, and you would get wildly
different fields from thatthe sciences under my direction; it was bigger than I. Eventually having all of
ever imagined and you had to prepare yourself so that you could ask reasonable questions that showed
you had some insight into the work and, more importantly, some appreciation for the value of the
work.
Researcher: Why do you believe that showing interest in someone’s work helps with that employee
or that relationship?
R9: Because it happened to me. When I was
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