Just Look Busy!
Mike Figliuolo
Managing Director, thoughtLEADERS, LLC?, LinkedIn Learning Author, and Board Member
If you have your team focus on activity instead of output, you'll have productivity and morale problems to deal with. Get them to focus on the outcome of their work instead.
And then there are those times you overhear a conversation that stops you dead in your tracks. You actually have to hit rewind in your brain and ask "did they actually just say that?" Ever have one of those moments? Clearly I did recently.
I was heading to a client site the other morning. As I headed out of my hotel room, I was rumblin' bumblin' stumblin' down the hall (can I get a Chris Berman "holla holla!"?).
My sole mission in life at that point was to get a second cup of coffee from the lobby (and anyone who knows me knows The Rule - don't speak to me until after my second cup o' Joe). Clearly my mind was foggier than Yoda's swamp on Dagobah.
As I passed two housekeepers who were conversing in the hallway, I heard it - the statement that shocked me more than hearing "I'm your father Luke."
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Mike is the managing director of?thoughtLEADERS, LLC?– a leadership development training firm.
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