Ready for a scary metaphor? A recent poll by the Gallup Organization says that as many as 72 percent of US workers are so disengaged that they are essentially “sleepwalking throughout their day.” That’s nearly three in four workers. Yikes!
I’m still emotionally scarred from watching Night of the Living Dead. Do we really have to see reruns every day at work?
What you’ve got are people operating under an unspoken agreement that it’s okay to approach their work, and even the act of walking across the room, like an underpaid extra in a zombie flick. How do you fix this problem? By creating healthier agreements. (more…)
Dear Roxanne, I am a dad and a department manager at a national freight company. I also coach my son’s soccer team. It’s a bit of a juggling act sometimes, but I get everything done by multi-tasking. Now my immediate supervisor has started ragging on me about phone calls home and checking my Blackberry during meetings AND my wife is complaining about the work I bring home! I need somebody on my side here. Please help me show them that the outcome is the thing, and I’m doing all of my jobs well.—Philip W.
Thank God it’s Monday!™ What separates successful teams from the mediocre? From their book The Orange Revolution, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton conducted a 350,000 person study that revealed the answers.
Reason #1: The drive to be great. Successful companies consistently commit to top performance.
Reason #2: Honesty. Poor teams lack honesty. Open debate and comfort are necessary for maximum success.
Reason #3: Lack of Selfishness. Company success is a product of collective productivity. Companies thrive when each individual cares about every other individual’s success.
So where does your organization fall? Are you acting as a successful organization, or are you slipping through the cracks into these poor habits that pull you back from what’s possible for you. Drive, honesty, and lack of selfishness make the difference.
Have a great Monday!
Roxanne
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Thank God it’s Monday!™ With family, something is unique. You hurt when they hurt. You laugh when they laugh. You feel what they feel.
But elsewhere, it’s hard to find this same level of genuine support.
Your son’s hockey team wins the championship–game winner scored by the team captain with ten seconds remaining. It’s great that they won, of course, but you and your boy both wish that time could go back, and HE could score that game-winning goal.
Tim, your buddy in the cubicle down the hall, pretty much won the lottery. He closed a monstrous deal with a customer who would’ve bought anything from anyone. You’re mature enough to congratulate him, but dang, you begin to think that he doesn’t deserve this kind of luck. YOU deserve this kind of luck! Right?
We’ve all been there. And it isn’t good. More than anything, it’s ME, ME, ME mentality and it gets in the way of establishing a sense of community, a sense of family, in the workplace.
Imagine just for a second what things would look like if everyone had each other’s best interests at heart. When Jim closes the deal, you’re so excited for him that it may as well have been you. When Marcia gets sick, she’s on your mind. When Sally gets promoted, you’re thrilled. When Tom struggles with his project, you assist him as if it were your own. When the business thrives, YOU feel fantastic!
A sense of family and community at work—now wouldn’t that be something? So why not make it that way?
Have a great Monday!
Roxanne
Roxanne Emmerich’s Thank God It’s Monday! How to Create a Workplace You and Your Customers Love climbed to #1 on Amazon’s bestseller list and made the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists—all in the first week of its release. Roxanne is renowned for her ability to transform “ho-hum” workplaces into dynamic, results-oriented, “bring-it-on” cultures. If you are not currently receiving the Thank God It’s Monday e-zine and weekly audios, subscribe today at www.ThankGoditsMonday.com.
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Thank God it’s Monday!™ You can’t fight city hall. Maybe you SHOULD fight city hall. But, there are some fights not worth fighting.
Earl Nightingale said that 85 percent of people who are dismissed from their jobs are fired because they can’t get along with other people.
Getting along means accepting people for who they are. Yes, Joe is arrogant. Yes, Julie is self-consumed. And sure enough, Tom is a perfectionist. All that can be true.
Know that you can ASK other people for other behaviors, but you may have to accept that some people, not you of course, aren’t perfect.
Fixing the blame is a futile process. Fixing the relationship is ALL important.
All people have strengths and weaknesses and if the weaknesses don’t violate the core values of your organization, create chaos or bad client experiences, or disrupt due to lack of appropriate professionalism, you may just need to breathe deeply and navigate around those flaws.
Fight fights worth fighting and find the joy in celebrating the good things your teammates bring to the team.
Have a great Monday!
Roxanne
Roxanne Emmerich’s Thank God It’s Monday! How to Create a Workplace You and Your Customers Love climbed to #1 on Amazon’s bestseller list and made the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists—all in the first week of its release. Roxanne is renowned for her ability to transform “ho-hum” workplaces into dynamic, results-oriented, “bring-it-on” cultures. If you are not currently receiving the Thank God It’s Monday e-zine and weekly audios, subscribe today at www.ThankGoditsMonday.com.
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