Sometime back, one of the team members who had recently joined the company was asked to complete a challenging assignment. She was relatively inexperienced, and she spent a week trying to complete the work. Unfortunately, her output left a lot to be desired. When I asked her why she had not reached out to her peers or her boss to assist her, she said that “I thought that people would think less of me. I also wasn’t sure how to ask for help. And what if they said no?”.
