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How Managers Can Help Employees Love Mondays with Ryan Houmand
Episode 3531st July 2024 • NextGen Work Culture: HR, Management, Inclusive Parent-Friendly Work Environment, Employee Recruitment and Retention, Talent Development • Kortney Ross
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In this episode of the NextGen Work Culture podcast, we're excited to share our conversation with Ryan Houmand, author of the book "A Passion for Monday".

Ryan shares his insights on the four big mistakes that make people hate Mondays and what managers can do to help their teams avoid them. From trying to be good at everything like Michael Jordan to fixating on weaknesses like Marty McFly, Ryan uses relatable pop culture references to illustrate how these missteps can derail engagement and satisfaction at work.

He also previews a potential 5th mistake around imposter syndrome that disproportionately impacts women in the workplace.

Throughout the conversation, Ryan emphasizes the crucial role managers play in recognizing their people's strengths and allowing them to work in their zones of genius.

He shares examples from his own consulting work, including how focusing on Gallup's 12 elements of engagement helped turn around a struggling Home Depot store.

Whether you're a people manager looking to boost your team's engagement or an individual contributor who wants to love Mondays like Fridays, you'll find Ryan's advice both practical and inspiring. Let's dive in!

Connect with today's guest, Ryan Houmand:

Author of "A Passion for Monday" Ryan has a background in management with companies like ADP and The Home Depot. He's an established expert on employee engagement which he calls "Loving Monday just Like Friday but for a different reason" His particular expertise is in detecting where managers struggle and helping them succeed in engaging their teams for dramatic results in everything from productivity to client satisfaction to improving safety. Ryan lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-houmand/

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Welcome to the NextGen Work Culture podcast, where leaders learn

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to support working parents, because being a family friendly

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business isn't just a nice to have anymore. It's

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essential for businesses that want to stay competitive, and it is

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critical for the next generation and those who are raising them. I'm

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your host, Courtney Ross, and I am so glad that you're here.

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Welcome back to the NextGen work culture. Today I

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am speaking with, with Ryan Helmond, who is the

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author of the book a Passion for Monday.

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So, Ryan, can you tell us a little bit more about you and what you

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do? Yeah, I'd love to. I'm so happy to be on your

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podcast. First of all, it's just so, yeah. Thanks for joining us. Yeah, ever since

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I met you, we were at an event in Orlando, and I've been looking forward

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to this. I'm glad we finally got to put it together. So, yeah, my background

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is in, is in management, mostly frontline management,

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actually, and lots in several different organizations. Most of my time is

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spent to a couple of big ones, ADP and the Home Depot. And

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so my background really, my whole thing about a passion

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for Monday came ten years ago when I lost my job. They had

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told me at one of the companies I worked for that you're really good

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at engaging employees, and we don't know what you're doing, but whatever you're doing, keep

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it up. And I'm glad they didn't ask me because I didn't really even know

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what employee engagement was at the time, but they were telling me that every time

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they got a survey back, my scores for my team were really high.

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And so then a couple of months later, they walked me out

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the door and said, today's your last day. And so

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then I got to thinking, what am I going to do with the rest of

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my life? And I remembered, well, they told me I was good at employee engagement.

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Maybe I should figure what that, figure out what that is. So I started doing

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it, and then I actually got an opportunity to, well, I

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started actually consulting and training managers on

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this, and I actually got an opportunity to speak at an

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HR event. And I said, I want to speak on employee engagement. And they

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said, we're all kind of tired of hearing about employee engagement. You

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know, that's an old thing. And I'm like, huh? So I got to market this

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differently. So I decided, well, what it

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really is is that you love Monday, just like Friday, but

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for a different reason. So we know why we love Friday. We've got some time

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to do what we want. But what if we could do what we want Monday

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through Friday as well? And so that's really what it's been about. And building work

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culture, not to engage, engage people in what

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they do. And it's, we know from some of the data out there,

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Gallup gives us a statistic that says 70% of the variance on

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employee engagement is attributable to any, to your direct

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supervisor. And so while we can have something to do with it

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by what we choose to do, for the most part, it's on work

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culture. And so to be able to be on your podcast on

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next gen work culture is just an awesome opportunity for me. So

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I appreciate your willingness to let me. Come on.

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Yeah, Ryan, I'm glad you're here. So we talk about how you could

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support working parents a lot, but most of that really just

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boils down to having an excellent work culture. And

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as you said, a lot of that kind of comes back to the managers and

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the people managers and how they're treating their people right. So I

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wonder, can you tell me the four mistakes that might make

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people hate Monday? Yeah. And I appreciate you asking that because

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it's what I talk about in my book, compassion for Monday. And

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it's interesting because I'm going to probably share a little fifth

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one that somebody brought up to me the other day. I was on a walk

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with a friend of mine, and she said, you know, there's another one you ought

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to think about adding into the next edition of your book. So I might

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update that. But we're going to talk about the four because I haven't really figured

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out that fifth one yet. I'll talk about it, but I don't have an icon

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for it. So one of the things that I decided a while

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back is I needed to have some sort of icon for

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these mistakes so that people are like, hmm, I can relate to that. So the

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four mistakes are these. The first one is what I call the Michael Jordan

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mistake, and that is trying to be good at everything. So

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it kind of goes back a ways. But Michael Jordan, at the pinnacle of his

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career, went to play baseball, and

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everybody was thinking, what are you doing, Michael? And even

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after a year and a half, he started wondering, what am I doing here? This

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isn't what I do best. So trying to be good at basketball and baseball and

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golf and whatever else made it so he couldn't really be great

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at what he was best at. So he ended up going back to

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basketball. So how often do we do that in our careers? We see somebody get

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recognition for something over here. And we think, oh, they're getting

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recognized. Maybe I should be good at that thing, too. And it's not what you

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do. And so we unplug from what we're really good at because

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somebody else is getting recognized for something they're really good at. So

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that's mistake number one, trying to be good at everything. I call it the Michael

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Jordan mistake. Mistake number two is what I call the

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Marty McFly mistake. So if you know the movie back to the future, and this

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goes back a ways, too, there's, in the first. The

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first movie, there's a memorable moment where he's walking along with his

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girlfriend Jennifer, and she says, marty, you got to send

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your demo tape for your band into the record company.

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And he's like, what if they don't like me? What if they say I'm no

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good? What if they say, get out of here, kids. You got no future? I

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just don't think I can take that kind of rejection. Because he was fixated on

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his weaknesses. So mistake number two is fixating on your weaknesses, what I call

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the Marty McFly mistake. And we do that, too. We think,

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I'm not really good at anything. And it holds us back from being

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really, again, really trying to excel in what.

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What is. What we do best. You know, maybe what our calling

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is. Mistake number three. I've got an icon for this

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one, too. It's the Bruce Jenner mistake. Now, this one goes back a ways,

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too, but at the time, wrote the book. It was

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really apropos. So Bruce Jenner in. Well, actually,

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Caitlyn Jenner in the first interview said, I was

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Bruce Jenner for 65 years and miserable. And how often do we do

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that? We take the advice of some trusted counselor or

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advisor or parent, a great friend or whatever, and they say, you should go

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do this for your career. And then we get down that path, and we realize,

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this isn't what I wanted to do. I know somebody who

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followed his father in his father's footsteps. His father

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was an electrical engineer, and this guy was the youngest of eight children, and

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nobody else had gone into the family business of being an electrical

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engineer, so he kind of felt pressured to do that. Well, by the

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time he got to be 40, he said, this isn't what I wanted to do.

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I've been an electrical engineer for now, what, 20 years? And I

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hate it. And he always wanted to be a doctor. So what did he do?

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He had the courage to unplug from being an electrical engineer and go to medical

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school at age 40, but now he's a doctor. Wow. In his mid fifties.

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So those are the types of things we're talking about. And the fourth mistake is

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having a bad boss and keeping them. So having a horrible boss. So the

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horrible bosses is those movies. And my icon for this one,

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you have a horrible boss and you keep them. That's your mistake. And sometimes it's

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like I say that to people. It's like, well, I have a horrible boss, but

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that horrible boss was inflicted on me. I didn't choose them.

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And sometimes we don't. But sometimes we did apply for a job and we find

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out after the fact that we have a horrible boss. So it may not be

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your mistake that you made initially, but make no mistake, it

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is your mistake. If you continue to have that horrible boss, we have to do

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something different because it's just going to ruin your work

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experience. And we don't just live to work, but if we're going to work anyway,

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we ought to be happy. And then I'll just give you a little insight into

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that fifth one. So I was walking along with one of my friends about a

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week or so ago, and she said, I was reading your book, a new friend,

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and she said, there's something you're missing. And this one might be, I think

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this is kind of apropos to your audience, too. She said, it's, it's

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imposter syndrome. So I need an icon for that. Maybe it's the

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character, and catch me if you can. I don't know, but imposter

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syndrome. And she said, she's a doctor, and

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she said it's a problem for everybody. But she says it's particularly a problem

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for, for working women in that men seem

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to just, you know, if there's an opportunity that comes up,

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if they meet two of the qualifications, they go for it. But women tend to

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think, no, I don't. I only meet two of those qualifications. I can't go for

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it. But men do it, and then they sometimes get that job or get that

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opportunity. And she's like, we need to talk about that more.

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So in an upcoming edition, when I put a new cover on that book, it's

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going to have the fifth mistake that makes people hate Mondays, and that's imposter

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syndrome. So, so that's just a little view into

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what I see as a consultant out there now for

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ten years, working with organizations, these are the things I see people

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doing. And then what I try to do is help

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managers because I think people, leaders should be doing people

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things I stole that from a friend of mine. He's an

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HR senior person. He said, people leaders should do people things. And

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I try to get organizations to help their people do that because

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so many organizations are just getting that wrong. They're having their people leaders

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do project management and other

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initiatives within the organization, and they get maybe 20% of their time

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to devote to their people. And that's just a shame because

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then people get ignored. So anyway, it's a long story. Thanks for letting me

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tell it. No, I love it. So I think

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that a lot of the kind of research out there indicates that

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people leave bad managers, not necessarily bad

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places or bad companies. Right. A lot of it has to. It boils down to

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the manager. So what can managers do

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to help people avoid these five big mistakes?

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Yeah, that's a great question. And when we think about that, we

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think about those mistakes. It's, you know, people are typically

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reacting to the environment around them. And when we think

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of, like, trying to be good at everything, it's

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managers can be better at recognizing, giving

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praise and recognition for doing good work. Now, we know some of the data

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out there says that praise and recognition has a shelf life, and

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it's usually around seven days or so. So we got to make sure

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we're giving frequent praise and recognition to our people.

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So if somebody's making the Michael Jordan mistake and trying to be something,

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trying to be good at everything, it's because they're seeing other people getting recognized for

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things they're good at doing. And it might be because I have this need to

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be recognized for what I do well. And if my manager never sees that,

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never notices, it never gives me praise and recognition for doing what I do best,

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I'm going to start to think I'm not doing the right thing. I'm going to

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start to think that what's expected of me is what they're all doing. And

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so one of the things that we also know is about half of people in

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the US who have jobs don't know what's expected of them at work. And part

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of that is how are they being recognized and

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reinforced? What reinforcement are they getting for the good

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work they're doing? And a lot of managers I talk to say, well, I don't

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do that because they get paid for doing their job. I'm not going to

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recognize them for doing their job. And I always turn that on them and say,

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well, what if nobody on your team showed up tomorrow? Would you be happy that

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they were just showing up to just do their job and

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that usually turns the table on that a little bit. And they say, yeah, okay,

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good, good point. And when you think about it for

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the last time, you got recognized for just doing great work.

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How did that feel? I mean, you probably had more energy

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for three or four or five days. After that, you know, you're more productive because

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you got more positive energy. One thing,

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when it comes to some of those other mistakes, like your

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weaknesses, well, we tend to do managers tend to exacerbate that

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problem because they, we have an annual review or

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something and we talk about, we maybe pay lip service to

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somebody's strengths and we say, yeah, but you don't need to worry about those. Let's

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work on these areas of improvement or our

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weaknesses. We hate weaknesses so bad. We come up with some

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goofy name like areas of improvement, which they aren't, by the way. If it's a

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weakness, you can work on it and make it better, but it's never going to

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become a strength. So, so we say, we say, well, that's

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great. Those will take care of themselves. Work on these things that you're no good

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at doing. So managers need to stop doing that

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and play. Allow people to play to their strengths. For the third one, it seems

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like. Those two really go hand in hand a lot, you know,

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that's a great point. Find your strengths, play to your strengths. Don't focus on your

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weaknesses. Find somebody else that's good at that and let them focus on it.

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Exactly. As a manager, it seems like you can kind of help the team

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figure out who's the best at this and who's the best at this and, and

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try to get them kind of in their lane, so to speak, and working on

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the things they're really great at. They're kind of zone of genius and

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don't focus on those weaknesses and areas for

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improvement. You're exactly right. I mean, and that's so, that's

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so key, and that's what

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we tend to do. And about 60% of people think it's a better idea

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to work on their weaknesses than their strengths because for the same reason, we get

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that drilled into our head, that, well, their strengths will take care of themselves. But,

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yeah, you're right. I mean, that's a key point as managers.

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If I'm a manager, I have the bird's eye view to say, well,

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somebody's really good at this and somebody's really good at this. And, you know, a

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job description is 5 miles wide and somebody might come in at really excellent

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at mile one and good out to mile two, but mile three, they're okay.

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But miles four and five they should never even delve into because they're going to

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mess it up royally. And somebody else on the team comes in strong at mile

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five. So we can individualize what people do on our teams and that's the

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luxury we have as managers. So you're exactly right. That's a great point. And I'm

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glad you mentioned zone of genius because that's a concept in a book that

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really changed my life ten years ago. The big leap.

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And we don't tend, tend to work in our zone

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of genius. The people who are really famously successful tend to work in their zone

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of genius. Oprah Winfrey has a quote that I love. She said, I know

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you made reference to staying in your lane. And she says, I know where my

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lane is and I know how to stay in my lane. And that's what we

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need. That's what managers can help people do. So just

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some ideas there. And I've got more for those other mistakes, too,

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but I know. Yeah, what about them? Give us a quick

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version. What about mistakes three or four? What kid managers do to help with

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that? Yeah, so that's the other thing about, like the Bruce Jenner

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mistake and trying to be something you're not. This also kind of

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goes, managers don't have to work too hard to find these things.

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And it's like, I made this mistake as a

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new manager. I would say, I would look at what the work of my

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team, and they had similar roles in the job I first had. And so I

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thought, well, they need to be similarly good at everything. And so

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sometimes I'd fixate on something that somebody wasn't doing well

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at the expense of knowing or realizing and

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recognizing the things that they did really well. So again, it comes into that five

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mile wide job description. I'm harping on them, I'm

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taking corrective action. I'm giving corrective feedback on this one

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thing. They're not very good at ignoring all the things they're really great at instead

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of just unplugging them from that and saying, look,

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it's like when I was taking my driver's test to get my driver's

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license for the first time, and the guy who was giving me my

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test, he was, I was supposed to parallel park and I was going to screw

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it up. And he said, I'm way behind. Don't tell

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anybody this. No, I'm telling everybody this. But he said, it's going to fail

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you on parallel parking because if you hit the cone, you fail the whole test.

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So just don't, we'll just give you 90 instead of 100 and we'll

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both move on from this. And so he's like, you're going to screw this up,

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so don't do it. And that's what I should have been doing with those people

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on my team. You're going to screw this up. And that's okay because you're really

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good over here. So that's another thing managers can do. And then

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on the horrible boss mistake, don't be a horrible boss. I mean, look at

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the things that engage your team. And I like to fall back on

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the twelve elements that Gallup has rolled out. And

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the survey they use is called the Q twelve. And they have things like, I

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know it's expected. I've received praise and recognition the last seven days.

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My opinions seem to count those things. If managers can focus on those

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twelve things and knowing that their people agree

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or strongly agree with those things, they're going to be not a horrible boss. And

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so that's how you can do that, right? Yeah, it seems like that one should

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be the easiest thing for managers to control.

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Exactly. Just stop. If you're being a horrible boss, just stop. And if you don't

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know if you are, look at your engagement surveys and if you're having

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one and we don't look at those very,

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in the appropriate way. The engagement survey really is

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a report card for the manager and a lot of organizations don't treat it that

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way, and it really is. And we should pay

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attention to those. And when you have a good survey that

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asks the right questions, you can really, and this is what I do for organizations.

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I'll go in and say, oh, this manager is struggling here. And here's

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why. Because on this question, his or her team is

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rating this really low. And then when they, when they do that, this is probably

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what it's telling you. And invariably I'll go in and say, could this be

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happening on your team? And they're like, yeah, it is happening on my

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team. What do I do about it? You know? So those are the things. So

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look at your engagement survey if you want to resolve mistake number four.

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Yeah. And I'm sure that those engagement surveys could bring a

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lot to the surface. You know, if you really actually look at them

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as a reflection on the managers, you know, as a report

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card for the managers, they're very telling.

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They can be, for sure. Yeah, I'm working with an organization right now and we're

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just recently my most recent one where we did an engagement survey

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and now we're looking at those and it's like, oh, well, this manager is probably

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struggling here. And that's what we do. We go in and say, could this be

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a problem? And they're like, yeah, it is. I thought, how did you know? You

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know, but surveys can tell us, if we use a survey

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that asks good questions and the right questions, it'll tell you a

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bunch of stuff. Yeah. So do you use a

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specific engagement survey? Do you have your own? Yeah, actually I

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do use the Gallup on that q twelve when I'm consulting because there is

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so much science behind it. But the other thing is a lot of surveys

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ask similar questions and so you can use that as a

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proxy. And I've helped other organizations. When I worked for the Home Depot, I helped

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one of the Home Depot stores that was really struggling and they've been struggling

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in the lowlands of their engagement for about three years in a

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row. And they used their own survey and

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it asked some similar questions to those twelve.

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But regardless of how that survey came out, when they asked me to help this

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store, I said, all right,

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let's use these twelve elements.

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We're going to focus on these things and we're going to do initiatives around,

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I know what's expected of me and I have the tools and equipment I need

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to do my job right and those sorts of things. And when we did, did

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that for a year and we took the survey the next year and where they

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had been struggling. So they have a hundred point scale on their

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survey and this store had been at a 72

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for three years running and you have to be at an 80 if you're going

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to be a successful store manager at the Home Depot. And

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this manager had come to me and said, I know you do this, I know

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you do this because I actually was working with the Home Depot

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after I started this consulting and she

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said, I just need help or I'm not going to have my job next year.

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And we don't need to get to 80, but we need to start showing some

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upper progress. Well, in that year we went from 72 to 79. It had been

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72 all year long. We made the

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progress by focusing on those twelve elements. And some of

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the questions in the Home Depot survey actually mirror those. So it was

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easy to see where they were struggling and actually kind

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of surgically do the right things for that store. And

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it paid, you know, it got everybody's attention because it's sort of unprecedented

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to go up seven points in a year. Like that. So, yeah, that's

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a lot. I think that's another kind of important thing to note about surveys, I

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guess, is you can't just, like, send the survey out once a year and be

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done with it. You got to do something with the data, right. You got to

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do some work. Yeah. And it's funny because when she said, can you help

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me? I said, yeah, but I'm not. I honestly

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know, slagging on the Home Depot, but their process, at least

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back then, was not a good one for improving those scores. And I said, if

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I'm going to help you, you got to let me do it my way. And

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she said, I'll run all the interference you want. Just help me not lose my

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job a year from now. So she went on to great things there.

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So it was good. Yeah. Well, good. That's good.

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Ryan, is there anything else that you want to share with my audience

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before we end here? Yeah, I would just say

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the kind of the catchphrase I use is everyone should love Monday, just like

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Friday, but for a different reason. And if you

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don't start to look at those things for yourself, too, are

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you in your zone of genius? And if you don't know much about that, that

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book that I referenced, the big leap, really does a good job

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of going through that. But what do you

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do? What are you sort of called to do? And if you're not doing that

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thing, take a good, hard look at it and say, what do I need to

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do to make those changes? And it's hard because if you're,

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like, in your zone of excellence, that's where people want you to

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be. Your family wants you to be. Your employer wants you to be. The voice

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in your head wants you to be there because it's easy, but there's

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still something calling to you that you might be able to break

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into, and it's not always as hard as you think.

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So love Monday, just like Friday, but for a different reason. If you don't have

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start asking yourself some questions. I love it. We're going to love

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Mondays. So, Ryan, where can we find you at? So actually,

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I am between websites, but by the time this gets posted, it should be

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out there again. Find me on LinkedIn. So we'll get a link for that. But

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also it's going to be lovemondaylikefriday.com. lovemondaylikefriday.com

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dot. So I had. I'm transitioning over, and I'm actually

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without a website for the next couple of days, but it should be up there.

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Very soon. So go out to there. Hit me on LinkedIn. I mean, if you

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find my name out there, I'm the only person that I know of on the

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web with my name. So if you find me, you found me. So. Yeah.

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And we'll be sure to put the links in the show notes, too. Ryan, thank

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you so much for, for chatting today. Thank you. Thanks for having me on.

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Courtney. If

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you enjoyed this episode, I know you'll love the future ready work culture

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framework. Head over to courtneyross.com

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to download your copy and start building a family friendly,

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