 It feels obvious that we want good things for our team members, right? We want good things. We put a lot of time into helping people. We put a lot of time into looking over their work. However, research shows that people, employees tend to assume bad intentions on their managers. Not good intentions, but they, people assume a lot more bad intentions than good intentions. And some of the bad intentions that they assume are things like, you know, you just wanted to make me look bad. You wanted to make yourself look good, right? You, you can't stand that, that I know more than you do, right? I mean, there are like so many, so many of these, uh, attributions that people make. Um, and what's really fascinating is that people don't tend to make positive attributions. They don't tend to tell a positive story like, oh, my manager wants good things for me. People don't, people don't tend to tell themselves that story. They don't only tell them to tell themselves the negative stories. So you, the manager, need to insert those positive stories. You need to be saying things like, I want people to see you as the expert that you are. You guys have done 800 over 800 podcasts. You know what you're doing, right? I want, I want people, I want people to see how brilliant you are. So you, if you state your positive intentions, then people now can tell themselves a different story. They won't fill in the blank for your intentions and make them negative. So this is just, um, if I've got to admit it feels artificial. When I do it in feedback conversations, it doesn't come naturally. It feels like I'm doing a little script, right? But things that I'll say would be things like, I want good things for you. Um, I know you're working really hard and I want other people to see how hard you're working. Um, I want your hard work to pay off. These are just really simple things that you can say before you give the bad news and, and what Leslie John and others have found is it softens the bad news. People are more receptive. They like you more as a manager. If you say your good intentions out loud. So again, it might feel artificial. You might have to do some searching, right? You might have to like be like, what is my good intention here? But it's really worth the effort.