7 Ways To Gain (And Keep) Your Manager’s Trust

Kevin Wanke
14 min readOct 26, 2020
Photo by Michael Shannon on Unsplash

The world has changed.

Upon first glance, that statement seems obvious and almost a little silly. Of course the world has changed. The world changes every day. People grow and learn. New products come out.

The concept that is really on my mind here is the massive changes in the workplace due to the coronavirus. Maybe a better phrase to use here would be something like this:

The workplace has changed. And it will probably never go back to the way that it was before.

Yet, even thinking through this idea, this is nothing new. Go watch an episode of Mad Men. The workplace that we know in 2019 looked nothing like that office ideal. While it can be said that any dramatization of workplace culture and etiquette can only present one ruby-lensed viewpoint of any workplace, some big differences can be seen when comparing and contrasting the workplace of the second decade of the 21st century.

Which leads us to the changes in 2020.

We are transitioning into a contactless society. Money transactions have already been moving in this direction for years. Even before COVID-19, you could wave your phone over a payment terminal without touching it to purchase goods or services.

Even people who are still in office buildings are attending virtual spaces to have meetings and converse with coworkers. This is occurring even if people are physically in the same building.

Even huge companies are making dramatic shifts to their workplaces.

A rendering of the new REI headquarters in Seattle (Credit: NBBJ)

Take REI for example.

The company that focuses on the outdoors and sells copious amounts of outdoor gear and adventures just spent 3 years building a new corporate headquarters complex. This workplace that was finished in 2020 was intended to expand the companies idea of “everything outdoors” and blur the distinction between being inside an office building with being outside.

In early March of 2020, this article was published stating that the company planned to start moving into this beautiful new campus starting in…

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Kevin Wanke

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