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Episode Synopsis
• Your managers are spending on-the-job time looking for a new job
• “More people need to give a damn at work”
(Total Recorded Time is 19:58)
In a recent report, Gallup says managers are more likely than non-managers to be:
• Disengaged at work
• Burned out
• Looking for a new job
• Feeling like their organization does not care about their wellbeing.
Now there’s a short list of changes that could make a big difference for managers and those they’re supposed to lead.
Everyone likes short to-do lists. And Charlie Gilkey has come up with one that’s short in words but could be huge when it comes how organizations work.
“One of my chief goals … is for us to remember the humanity of the people we work with and to increase our skills of empathy,” he says. “More people need to give a damn at work.”
Charlie Gilkey is a business author, speaker, coach, and entrepreneur specializing in leadership, teamwork, and productivity. His new book is Team Habits: How Small Actions Lead to Extraordinary Results(Hachette Go, August 2023).
Mr. Gilkey says most people quit or stay at their jobs because of the same four to eight people they interact with daily – their “work team.” Improving how the team works together, whether it’s in-person or remote, betters team members’ work life, he says.
He offers these seven tips:
• Agree as one team that it’s a good thing to ask for help
• Be intentional in how you include people, particularly introverts who prefer to contribute more quietly and deliberately
• Bring up innocent mistakes in real time -- not weeks later -- and with grace
• Remove decision-making bottlenecks by knowing when you do—and don’t—need management’s involvement
• Keep a team decision-making log with a program like Notion or Confluence
• Prevent overstuffed meetings by limiting sessions to single-topic categories, such as planning, brainstorming, updating, or celebrating
• Eliminate “crutch” meetings -- the inappropriate ones used to deal with matters that have no place in a team meeting
For more information: http://www.productiveflourishing.com and https://betterteamhabits.substack.com/
• “More people need to give a damn at work”
(Total Recorded Time is 19:58)
In a recent report, Gallup says managers are more likely than non-managers to be:
• Disengaged at work
• Burned out
• Looking for a new job
• Feeling like their organization does not care about their wellbeing.
Now there’s a short list of changes that could make a big difference for managers and those they’re supposed to lead.
Everyone likes short to-do lists. And Charlie Gilkey has come up with one that’s short in words but could be huge when it comes how organizations work.
“One of my chief goals … is for us to remember the humanity of the people we work with and to increase our skills of empathy,” he says. “More people need to give a damn at work.”
Charlie Gilkey is a business author, speaker, coach, and entrepreneur specializing in leadership, teamwork, and productivity. His new book is Team Habits: How Small Actions Lead to Extraordinary Results(Hachette Go, August 2023).
Mr. Gilkey says most people quit or stay at their jobs because of the same four to eight people they interact with daily – their “work team.” Improving how the team works together, whether it’s in-person or remote, betters team members’ work life, he says.
He offers these seven tips:
• Agree as one team that it’s a good thing to ask for help
• Be intentional in how you include people, particularly introverts who prefer to contribute more quietly and deliberately
• Bring up innocent mistakes in real time -- not weeks later -- and with grace
• Remove decision-making bottlenecks by knowing when you do—and don’t—need management’s involvement
• Keep a team decision-making log with a program like Notion or Confluence
• Prevent overstuffed meetings by limiting sessions to single-topic categories, such as planning, brainstorming, updating, or celebrating
• Eliminate “crutch” meetings -- the inappropriate ones used to deal with matters that have no place in a team meeting
For more information: http://www.productiveflourishing.com and https://betterteamhabits.substack.com/
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